CASE: I-485 Adjustment of Status / I-140 (EB-3)
CLIENT: Korean Taekwondo Coach
Our client is a former Taekwondo athlete, who currently studies in the United States. He has a Taekwondo school who was willing to petition him for a third-preference petition (I-140). Our client has a bachelor’s degree in a related field. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that his potential employer can petition him as a Taekwondo Coach. Based on our client’s education and work backgrounds, our office determined that he is clearly eligible for EB-3 classification for his I-140 petition. Our client eventually retained us on December 27, 2016.
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 January 6, 2017, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained foreign degree evaluation report, our office filed the job order on March 29, 2017. On July 18, 2017, we promptly filed PERM. Eventually, on November 1, 2017, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB3 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 November 13, 2017 via premium processing service. Eventually, on November 21, 2017, the I-140 EB3 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. On December 22, 2017, our office filed an I-485 adjustment of status application for our client. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices and fingerprint appointment came on time.
Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our client at our office as well. On June 4, 2018, our client was interviewed at Cleveland Ohio USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu from our office also accompanied our client as well. Eventually, on June 5, 2018, his green card application was approved.