CASE: I-751 / Response to RFE
APPLICANT: Vietnamese
LOCATION: Youngstown, OH
Our client contacted our office in the middle of January this year regarding a Response to RFE for her I-751 application. She is from Vietnam 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 November of 2011, and her conditional residency terminated in November 2013.
To comply with immigration requirements, our client and her husband filed an I-751 Joint Petition to Remove Conditions before November 2013. 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 January 2, 2014, the USCIS issued a Request for Evidence (RFE) for our client’s I-751 filing.
She consulted with our office after receiving the RFE. After discussing the case with them, she retained our office on January 22, 2014.
We reviewed the CIS’ RFE letter and prepared our response. On March 20, 2014, our office filed the Response to RFE to the USCIS with multiple affidavits from her friends and family members, joint bank statements, utility bills, credit card statements, joint tax records, joint vehicle title, insurance policies, and photos of our client and her husband to demonstrate the bona fideness of their marriage.
After this submission, our client wasn’t even interviewed. Instead, on May 2, 2014, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application and our client received her 10-year green card.