CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status.
NATIONALITY: Australian
LOCATION: Houston, TX
The marriage-based green card approval we got recently was for an Australian client who came to the U.S. on a J-2 Visa in 1999. She came to the U.S. with her father who came on a J-1 visa for his research program in the United States. Later, our client changed her J-2 visa to F-1 visa. After she graduated, she married her current U.S. citizen husband in 2007 and her husband filed an I-130 petition on behalf of our client. The I-130 petition was approved in July 2010. She did an adjustment of status application by herself before retaining us, and this was denied due to her being subject to the two-year foreign residence requirement.
As explained in a previous success story, our office worked on our client’s J-2 visa waiver through the Interested Government Agency (IGA) route. Eventually, the CIS issued an I-612 approval notice on April 28, 2014.
After we received the I-612 waiver, our client retained us again and sought legal assistance for her I-485 adjustment of status application. Our firm prepared and filed the I-485 adjustment of status application on July 3, 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 September 18, 2014, our client was interviewed at the Houston, Texas USCIS office. On the same day, her green card application was approved.