CASE: I-751
APPLICANT: Filipina
LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio
Our client contacted our office in February of 2013 regarding her I-751 application.
She is from the Philippines and married a U.S. citizen in September 2011. Through her marriage, she obtained a 2-year conditional green card in April of 2012. Her conditional residency terminated in April 2014.
To comply with immigration requirements, our client and her husband had to file an I-751 Joint Petition to Remove Conditions. She retained our office again on February 14, 2014 and our office prepared an I-751 application for our client with bona fide marriage documents.
On March 21, 2014, our office filed an I-751 application to the USCIS with joint bank statements, utility bills, insurance policies, joint lease, joint tax records and photos of our client and her husband to demonstrate the bona fideness of their marriage.
Once the application was filed, the fingerprint notice was issued two weeks later. However, USCIS issued a Request for Evidence (RFE) on June 16, 2014. The USCIS requested our client to submit more documentary evidence to prove the bona fide nature of her marriage with her husband. In response to the RFE, our office prepared the response and gathered more joint documentary evidence to demonstrate the bona fide nature of our client’s marriage with her husband during last two years. We filed the RFE response on July 3, 2014 to the USCIS.
Eventually, on July 23, 2014, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application and our client received her 10-year green card which removed the conditions.