CASE: I-751 / Waiver of the Joint Waiver Requirement
APPLICANT: Chinese
LOCATION: Palisades Park, NJ
Our client contacted our office in early October 2018 regarding his I-751 filing. He came to the United States from China and he married a U.S. Citizen (his ex-wife) in August 2016. Through his marriage, he was able to obtain a 2-year conditional green card in August of 2017. His conditional residency terminated in August 2019. However, our client experienced a lot of difficulties in his marital life with his ex-wife. Unfortunately, their marriage ended in May 2019. Thus, our client could not file the I-751 application jointly with his ex-wife.
After our office was retained, we prepared a waiver of the joint filing requirement because our client entered into marriage in good faith, but the marriage was terminated through divorce. We focused on the supporting documents that he can show and helped him draft an extensive and detailed affidavit about their marriage, and why it ended the way it did.
On August 5, 2019, our office filed the I-751 application with various supporting documents (including an affidavit over 7 pages) to demonstrate our client’s bona fide marriage with his ex-wife. Eventually, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application on June 8, 2020 without any RFE or interview. Now, he has his ten-year green card.