CASE: I-751 / Response to RFE
APPLICANT: Filipina
LOCATION: Ohio
Our client contacted our office in the middle of March this year regarding a Response to RFE for her I-751 application filing. She is from the Philippines and got her 2-year conditional green card through her marriage to her U.S. citizen husband. She obtained a 2-year conditional green card in June of 2010, and her conditional residency terminated in June 2012.
To comply with immigration requirements, our client and her husband filed an I-751 Joint Petition to Remove Conditions before June 2012. However, she did not have an attorney back then, and did not submit sufficient evidence to prove the bona fideness of her marriage to her U.S. citizen husband. As a result of that, on February 14, 2013, the USCIS issued a Request for Evidence (RFE) for our client’s I-751 filing.
After consulting, she retained our office on March 27, 2013.
We reviewed the CIS’ RFE letter and prepared our response. On May 7, 2013, our office filed the Response to RFE to the USCIS with multiple affidavits from her friends and family members, joint bank statements, utility bills, insurance policies, and photos of our client and her husband to demonstrate the bona fideness of their marriage.
After that, there was no interview request for our client’s I-751 application. Instead, on August 26, 2013, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application and our client received her 10-year green card which removed the condition.