CASE: Termination of Removal Proceedings Based on Approved I-130 Petition
CLIENT: Kenyan
LOCATION OF COURT: Atlanta, GA
LOCATION OF CLIENT: Alabama
Our client is from Kenya who came to the U.S. on a F-1 Student Visa in June 2001. However, she failed to maintain her F-1 status after that. She was thereafter placed in removal proceedings in Atlanta, Georgia.
Our client married her U.S. citizen husband in May 2013 in Alabama. Her husband filed an I-130 petition on her behalf after they got married. Eventually, our client’s I-130 petition was approved in February 2015. She could not apply for adjustment of status by herself with the CIS, since her removal proceeding is still pending.
She contacted our office around May 2015 to seek legal assistance. She retained our office on June 4, 2015.
After our office was retained, we prepared and filed a request to join in a Motion to Terminate proceedings with an attached I-485 application and its supporting documents to the Atlanta ICE-DHS office. In less than a month, the DHS counsel in Atlanta agreed to terminate our client’s proceedings. Eventually, the Immigration Judge granted the Motion to terminate without prejudice on October 1, 2015. Now, she can file her I-485 adjustment of status application with the CIS.