CASE: I-485 Adjustment of Status / I-140 (EB-2)
CLIENT: Korean Operations Research Analyst
LOCATION: Dallas, Texas
Our client is from South Korea and his prospective employer was willing to do an immigration petition for him, second-preference. Our client has a Master’s degree in Business Administration. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that his employer can petition him as an Operations Research Analyst. Based on our client’s education and work background, our office determined that he is clearly eligible for EB-2 classification.
Prior to filing PERM, our firm prepared the prevailing wage request, job order, advertisements, internal job posting, recruitment report, and all other steps which are important pre-PERM filing. Take note that PERM could be filed at least 60 days from the job posting date or 30 days from the last ad. On May 18, 2017, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained Prevailing Wage determination, our office filed the job order on August 8, 2017. On October 11, 2017, we promptly filed PERM. Eventually, on March 19, 2018, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB2 position for the Korean beneficiary.
We then proceeded with the I-140 Petition filing. We submitted the “ability to pay” letter for the I-140 petition application. We included the job offer letter, employer’s tax records, and other necessary supporting documents.
The I-140 Petition was filed on April 13, 2018 via premium processing service. Eventually, on April 26, 2018, the I-140 EB2 Petition for our Korean client was approved without any Request for Evidence (RFE).
Once his I-140 petition was approved, he retained our office again and determined to file an adjustment of status application for him and his wife. On May 15, 2018, our office filed an I-485 adjustment of status application for our clients. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices and fingerprint appointment came on time.
Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients via conference calls as well. On October 29, 2018, our clients were interviewed at Irving Texas USCIS office. Their interview went well; and eventually, their I-485 applications were approved by the USCIS on October 30, 2018.