CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status
NATIONALITY: Lebanese
LOCATION: Marlborough, MA
Our client is a Lebanese Citizen who came to the U.S. on a J-2 Visa in November 2012. She came with her husband who held a J-1 Visa. Both were subject to the two-year foreign residency requirement.
Unfortunately, their marriage did not work out and she eventually got divorced from her ex-husband. Later, she married her current U.S. citizen husband. She was still subject to the two-year foreign residency requirement, and she would like to adjust her status in the United States. Until she gets a waiver of the 2-year foreign residency requirement, she cannot adjust her status in the United States.
She contacted our office, and our firm was retained to do her J-2 waiver on August 13, 2018.
On August 16, 2018, the J-2 Waiver Application along with the Form DS-3035 was filed to the Department of State. We also sent a request to the DOS to be an interested government agency and recommend this waiver based on the fact that our client was divorced from the J-1 visa holder.
On September 19, 2018, the DOS sent a recommendation to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) for our client be granted a waiver.
After we received the waiver, our client retained us again and sought legal assistance for her adjustment of status application. Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and Adjustment of Status Application on September 27, 2018. 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 April 18, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Boston Massachusetts USCIS office. The interview went well, and eventually, on the same day of the interview, her green card application was approved.