CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status.
NATIONALITY:Burmese
LOCATION: East Lansing, MI
Our client is from Myanmar who came to the U.S. on a J-1 Visa in September 2012. She came to the U.S. for her research program, and her J-1 program made her subject to the two-year foreign residence requirement.
In June 2013, our client married her U.S. citizen husband. She was eligible to get a green card through her marriage to U.S. citizen; however, before we file her I-130/I-485 application simultaneously, she has to get a waiver of her two-year foreign residency requirement.
As our previous success story explained, our office worked on our client’s J-1 waiver. Eventually, the Myanmar Embassy issued a No Objection Statement for our client, and sent this letter to the State Department’s Waiver Review Division. On February 27, 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 of the two-year foreign residency program on March 6, 2014.
After we received the I-612 waiver, our firm prepared and filed an I-130 petition and I-485 adjustment of status application on March 24, 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 July 22, 2014, our client was interviewed at the Detroit, MI USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu from our office accompanied them as well. On the same day, her green card application was approved.