CASE: I-751
APPLICANT: Palestinian
LOCATION: Akron, OH
Our client contacted our office in September of 2016 regarding her I-751 application.
She is from Palestine and she married a U.S. citizen. Through her marriage, she obtained a 2-year conditional green card in December of 2013. Her conditional residency terminated in December 2015.
To comply with immigration requirements, our client and her husband should have filed an I-751 Joint Petition to Remove Conditions before December 2015. However, due to financial and health related reasons, they could not file the I-751 application on time.
The USCIS still allows the I-751 applicant to file his or her I-751 application as long as there is a good cause for the late filing. She retained our office on September 8, 2016 and our office prepared an I-751 application for our client with bona fide marriage evidence and a letter to explain their late filing.
On September 28, 2016, our office filed an I-751 application to the USCIS with affidavits of applicant and her husband to explain their late filing and other joint documents to demonstrate the bona fideness of their marriage.
There was no RFE issuance or interview request for our client’s I-751 application. As a result, on March 21, 2018, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application and our client received her 10-year green card.