CASE: Marriage-Based Petition and Adjustment of Status
NATIONALITY: Indonesian
LOCATION: Long Island City, NY
Our client is from Indonesia who came to the U.S. on a J-1 Visa in September 2000. She came to the U.S. for business training, but her J-1 program made her subject to the two-year foreign residence requirement.
In June 2012, our client married her U.S. Citizen husband. She would’ve been eligible to get a green card through her marriage, however, before we file her I-130/I-485 application simultaneously, she had to get a waiver of her two-year foreign residency requirement first.
In order to get a waiver of her two-year foreign residency requirement, she consulted with our office and later decided to retain our office on July 23, 2012.
Our office first worked on her J-1 waiver. Eventually, the Indonesian Embassy issued a No Objection Statement for our client, and sent this letter to the State Department’s Waiver Review Division.
On September 24, 2012, the Waiver Review Division issued a favorable recommendation based on the No Objection statement. The CIS has receipted the fee and issued an I-612 approval notice for our client’s waiver of the two-year foreign residency program on October 5, 2012.
Later on, our client retained us for her green card, so our firm prepared and filed the I-130 petition and I-485 adjustment of status application on August 8, 2013. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time.
Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients through conference calls. On January 30, 2014, our client was interviewed at the Long Island City USCIS Field office in New York. On the same day, her green card application was approved.