CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status
NATIONALITY: Kenyan
LOCATION: Tampa, FL
The marriage-based green card approval we got recently was for a Kenyan client who came to the U.S. on a J-2 Visa in August 2001. She came to the U.S. with her mother who came on a J-1 visa for her 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 June 2013 and her husband filed an I-130 petition on her behalf. The I-130 petition was approved in December 2015.
Our office worked on our client’s J-2 visa waiver through the Interested Government Agency (IGA) route. Eventually, the CIS receipted the fee and issued an I-612 approval notice for our client’s waiver of the two-year foreign residency requirement on March 8, 2017.
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 December 14, 2017. 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 2, 2018, our client was interviewed at the Tampa, Florida USCIS office. Eventually, on August 8, 2018, her green card application was approved.