CASE: I-130 (Response to Notice of Intent to Revoke)
CLIENT: US Citizen Petitioner; Honduran Beneficiary
LOCATION: Petitioner: Cleveland, Ohio; Beneficiary: Honduras
Our client contacted our office in late January of this year. He is a U.S. Citizen living in Cleveland, Ohio and sought legal assistance for his wife’s case in Honduras. When he contacted our office, his wife already had an immigrant visa interview twice at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras. However, her interview did not go well, and the Embassy returned the petition to the USCIS for further review and action on January 15, 2014. Eventually, the USCIS, based on a request from the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, issued a Notice of intent to revoke his I-130 petition on January 24, 2014.
Our client married his Honduran citizen wife back in June 2012. Our client then filed an I-130 petition for his wife in September 2012. On December 20, 2012, the USCIS approved the I-130 petition and his wife was eventually interviewed at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. However, the U.S. Embassy denied her immigrant visa application, and the approved I-130 petition was subsequently returned to the National Visa Center by the Department of State for further review and action, and as stated above, the USCIS then issued a Notice of Intent to Revoke.
After our office was retained, we filed a Response to Intent to Revoke on February 7, 2014 with the USCIS Cleveland Field Office. Over 75 pages of documents and 7 exhibits were submitted in our response.
In our response brief, we rebutted each and every question that was raised by the USCIS regarding the bona fide nature of our client’s marriage to his wife in Honduras. As a result, on April 9, 2014, the USCIS determined that they will not revoke our client’s I-130 petition.
Now that the CIS has reaffirmed the I-130 petition, our client’s wife will get her immigrant visa, and will be reunited with his husband after almost two years.