CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status
NATIONALITY: Filipina
LOCATION: Albuquerque, NM
Our client is from the Philippines who came to the U.S. on a J-1 Visa in July 2011 to work as a teacher. In June 2013, she got married to her U.S. citizen husband and later on consulted with our firm for her J-1 visa waiver prior to applying for her adjustment of status application.
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 first
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 July 21, 2014, 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 August 19, 2014.
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 for her and her two children on August 26, 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 March 10, 2015, our client and her two children were interviewed at the Albuquerque NM USCIS office. On the same day, her and her two children’s green card applications were approved.