CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status.
NATIONALITY:Filipina
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
Our client is from the Philippines who came to the U.S. on a J-1 Visa in October 2011. Upon completion of her J-1 program, she remained in the United States and overstayed. She was subject to the two-year foreign residency requirement. Later, she got married to her U.S. citizen husband.
She was eligible to get a green card through her marriage to a U.S. citizen; however, before we can file her I-130/I-485 application simultaneously, she had to get a waiver of her two-year foreign residency requirement.
As a previous success story explained, our office worked on our client’s J-1 waiver. Eventually, the Philippine Embassy issued a No Objection Statement for our client, and sent this letter to the State Department’s Waiver Review Division. On December 6, 2012, the Waiver Review Division issued a favorable recommendation based on the No Objection statement. The CIS has receipted the fee and issued an I-612 approval notice for our client’s waiver on December 28, 2012.
Later on, our client retained us for her adjustment of status application. Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 petition and I-485 adjustment of status application on March 5, 2014. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients through conference calls. On August 29, 2014, our client was interviewed at the Yakima WA USCIS office. On September 2, 2014, her green card application was approved.