CASE: I-751
APPLICANT: Filipina
LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio
Our client contacted our office in September of 2013 regarding her I-751 application.
She was from the Philippines and she married a U.S. citizen in June 2011. Through her marriage, she obtained a 2-year conditional green card in December 2011. Her conditional residency terminated in December 2013.
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 September 26, 2013 and our office prepared an I-751 application for our client with supplemental exhibits.
On October 11, 2013, 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, the USCIS issued a Request for Evidence (RFE) on January 23, 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. We filed the RFE response on March 5, 2014 to USCIS.
Eventually, on March 20, 2014, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application and our client received her 10-year green card which removed the conditions.