CASE: I-751
APPLICANT: Filipina
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
Our client contacted our office in January of 2014 regarding her I-751 application.
She is from the Philippines and she married a U.S. citizen in 2011. Through her marriage, she obtained a 2-year conditional green card in February of 2012. Her conditional residency terminated in February 2014.
To comply with immigration requirements, our client and her husband had to file an I-751 Joint Petition to Remove Conditions. She retained our office again on January 31, 2014 and our office prepared an I-751 application for our client with bona fide marriage documents.
On February 7, 2014, our office filed an I-751 application to the USCIS with joint bank statements, utility bills, insurance policies, joint tax records, affidavits from friends and family and photos of our client and her husband to demonstrate the bona fideness of their marriage.
Once the application was filed, the fingerprint notice was issued two weeks later. However, USCIS issued a Request for Evidence (RFE) on June 2, 2014. The USCIS requested our client to submit more documentary evidence to prove the bona fide nature of her marriage with her husband. In response to the RFE, our office prepared the response and gathered more joint documentary evidence to demonstrate the bona fide nature of her marriage. We filed the RFE response on July 23, 2014 to the USCIS.
Eventually, on July 31, 2014, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application and our client received her 10-year green card which removed the conditions.