CASE: I-824 (Follow-to-join) based on approved I-140 and Consular Processing (Immigrant Visa)
CLIENT: Filipina LPR Petitioner; Filipino Beneficiary in the Philippines
LOCATION: Petitioner: Michigan; Beneficiary: Manila, Philippines
Our client is a Lawful Permanent Resident who got her green card under EB-2 category with our office’s legal assistance in 2014. She has a husband, and our client and her husband married before his adjustment of status application was adjudicated. However, her husband was in the Philippines when she got her green card due to his employment. He could have been a derivative applicant at the time of our client’s green card filing, but he was not in the United States at that time. Nevertheless, we told our client that we can do an I-824 and do consular processing for her husband when he wants to permanently move to the United States.
In October 2014, she contacted our office to do an I-824 follow-to-join application to the USCIS so that her husband can file an immigrant visa and come as a derivative beneficiary of the I-140 petition. She retained our office on October 17, 2014 to help bring her husband to the States.
After we were retained, our office filed an I-824 follow-to-join application to the USCIS on October 31, 2014. After the I-824 was filed, everything went smoothly and the receipt notice came on time. The I-824 application was approved by the USCIS on June 29, 2015 and this case was transferred to the National Visa Center.
After the I-824 approval, we filed the immigrant visa packets to the National Visa Center on August 20, 2015 who in turn forwarded the client’s materials to the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines. An interview notice was set for our client at the U.S. Embassy in Manila. On November 10, 2015, our client’s husband appeared at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines. The interview went well, and eventually, on the same day, the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines approved and issued his immigrant visa.
With the approved Immigrant visa, our client’s husband can come to the United States. He will get his green card within two months.