CASE: Follow-to-join based on approved I-140 for husband and I-485 adjustment of status
CLIENT: Filipina Client in Miami, FL
Our client contacted our office in November 2014 for her adjustment of status case. Her husband was a beneficiary of an EB-3 I-140 petition from his prospective employer, and got his green card in July 2014. Our client and her husband have been married since May 2010 before her husband got his permanent residency. Thus, she was eligible follow-to-join and adjustment of status based on her husband’s I-140.
She came to the United States in October 2014 on a valid B-2 visitor’s visa. She did not know that she was eligible for the adjustment of status when she came to the United States, but later learned that she would be eligible for the adjustment of status filing. After the consultation with our office, she retained our office on December 18, 2014.
Once retained, we prepared and file our client’s adjustment of status application along with supporting documents to USCIS on December 22, 2014. However, the priority date of Eb-3 category for the Philippines national backlogged. Our client had to wait until the priority date becomes current. In October 2016, her priority date becomes current. The USCIS requested our client to submit her new immigration medical record and our office submitted it to the USCIS on October 20, 2016. Eventually, our client’s adjustment application was approved by the USCIS on November 14, 2016. After a long wait, our client is finally a green card holder.