CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status
CLIENT: Costa Rican
LOCATION: Cypress, Texas
Our client came to the United States in September 1991 when she was a minor on a B-1 visa from Costa Rica. Although her authorized stay in the U.S. expired in October 1991, she remained in the United States since then. In February 2018, she married her U.S. Citizen husband and retained our office on May 14, 2018 for her adjustment of status application. Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on June 5, 2018. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permit all came on time.
Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients over the conference call. On July 29, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Houston, Texas USCIS. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu, Esq. accompanied them as well. Though the interview went well and the I-130 petition was approved on the same day of the interview, the USCIS issued Request for Evidence on July 29, 2019 and requested our client to submit the I-601 waiver. The USCIS argued that our client came to the United States without inspection. Nevertheless, our office immediately filed the response to RFE by demonstrating that she last entered the United States with a valid B-1 visa and submitted the I-94 record. We filed the RFE response without submitting the I-601 waiver on August 6, 2019. Eventually, on September 24, 2019, her green card application was approved.