CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status
CLIENT: Belgian
LOCATION: Cleveland, OH
Our client came to the United States in October 2013 from Belgium under the visa waiver program. He came here to visit his U.S. Citizen girlfriend (now his wife). As a visa waiver entrant, he was only authorized to remain in the United States for only 90 days.
Within two weeks of his entry to the United States, our client and his U.S. citizen girlfriend got married. They were planning to move to the Netherlands, so he did not have any immigrant intent when he initially came to the United States. However, things changed, and they decided to settle in the United States, so he and his wife filed an I-130 petition and I-485 adjustment of status application in January 2014.
Nevertheless, our client was worried about the potential immigrant intent issue so they contacted our firm in early April of 2014 for preparation and accompaniment at his green card interview. He retained our office on April 8, 2014. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our client at our office. On April 17, 2014, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland USCIS. We accompanied our client at his interview as well. On the same day, his green card application was approved.