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Immigration Law Success Stories
August 26, 2010
Our client, an H-1B visa holder, applied for adjustment of status based upon a bona fide marriage to a United States Citizen. We prepared and filed the green card application on behalf of our client and attended the marriage interview at the Philadelphia Immigration Office. Our client received the green card within 1 week after the interview.
Our client is married to a United States Citizen who filed an I-130 Petition for Alien Relative on his behalf. He simultaneously filed an I-485 Adjustment of Status Application with the I-130 Petition. Our client and his wife experienced marital difficulty and she withdrew the I-130 Petition. Our client was placed in removal proceedings and requested voluntary departure from the Immigration Judge which was granted. Our client and his wife were never divorced and did everything possible to reconcile their marital difficulties. Our client and his wife did in fact reconcile their marital difficulties and she filed a new I-130 Petition for Alien Relative on his behalf. Following the filing of the new I-130 Petition our law firm filed a Motion to Reopen our client's removal proceedings within 90 days of the voluntary departure grant. The removal proceedings were reopened by the Immigration Judge and a new Master Calendar Hearing scheduled.
August 18, 2010
Our firm utilized the USCIS premium processing service to obtain approval of an EB-1B Outstanding Researcher Petition on behalf of a researcher at a prestigious hospital. The petition was approved in 10 days without a Request for Evidence or Notice of Intent to Deny. The Beneficiary's research field was conducting clinical effectiveness and health outcomes research and he had made groundbreaking findings related to Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Alzheimer's Disease, Stroke and Hypertension. We demonstrated international recognition as outstanding through original scientific research contributions to the academic field, authorship of publications, and discussion by others. We are now preparing the I-485 filings for our client and derivative family members.
Our client had a pending I-485 application for adjustment of status based upon a grant of asylum that had been pending at the USCIS Nebraska Service Center for approximately 5 years without adjudication. When USCIS does not adjudicate an application for benefits within a reasonable period of time a powerful tool is to file a Writ of Mandamus in Federal District Court to request a Federal Judge to issue an order requiring USCIS to adjudicate an application. Our firm was retained to take such action. We put the USCIS Nebraska Service Center on notice of our intent to file a writ of mandamus but they did not respond to our notice. We thereafter filed a complaint for writ of mandamus in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Within 2 weeks of our filing, our clients I-485 application was approved and the green card was issued. The United States Attorney assigned to the case had contacted USCIS to adjudicate the application. Upon approval of the green card we withdrew our mandamus complaint. A 5 year wait resolved in 2 weeks is a true success story!
A client came to our office who had been married to a United States Citizen for 20 years and had an I-130 Petition approved for 12 years but had never received the green card because he had filed the paperwork by himself and his application had been denied because he had been unable to prove his lawful entry to the United States. He had not bothered to follow-up on his application until he needed proof of work authorization all those years later. We immediately filed Form I-102 to obtain a duplicate copy of his I-94 card and upon receipt of same we filed his green card application. After more than a decade our client finally has a green card.
An important aspect of our legal representation of clients involves attending adjustment of status interviews in connection with an I-485 application filed simultaneously with a marriage based I-130 Petition. During a recent interview, the couple was separated, most likely due to a difference in age between the husband and wife and prior marital history. In response to the questions asked, the husband and wife had minor discrepancies in their testimony, the type of which would be expected of any married couple and which is often provided due to the nature of the questioning as opposed to the marriage not being bona fide. The lawyer from our firm who attended the interview took detailed notes of the testimony. USCIS issued a Notice of Intent to Deny the I-130 Petition citing discrepancies in the testimony between husband and wife. Our law firm responded to the Notice of Intent to Deny on behalf of the Petitioning Spouse, explaining the minor discrepancies in testimony and the reasons for such discrepancies. Following our response to the Notice of Intent to Deny USCIS approved both the I-130 Petition and I-485 green card application.
August 9, 2010
Our Philadelphia Immigration Attorneys successfully represented a U.S. Citizen in sponsoring her husband who lived overseas for permanent resident status. The husband in wife were married in Jamaica and we filed an I-130 Petition for Alien Relative and thereafter filed an I-129F Petition for K-3 status. The husband was granted a K-3 visa which he used to enter the United States. After his entry to the United States we filed an adjustment of status application on his behalf so that he could obtain a green card. Following an interview at the Philadelphia District Office the adjustment of status application was approved.
July 31, 2010
Our client, a United States Citizen, had filed I-130 Petitions on behalf of both of her parents with the Vermont Service Center requesting consular processing. The Petitions were approved but following the approval the files were lost by the Immigration Service during the time period they were supposed to be transferred to the National Visa Center. Our law firm helped resolve the situation for our client by reconstructing the file with the Vermont Service Center and eliciting the assistance of the immigration liaison of a Philadelphia Congresswoman's office. We were able to successfully get the Vermont Service Center to issue new approvals and forward the files to the National Visa Center.
July 23, 2010
Our Philadelphia immigration law firm received an approval of a I-140 National Interest Waiver Petition filed with the USCIS Texas Service Center in 2 1/2 months. The Petition was filed on behalf of a researcher at a prestigious University in Philadelphia whose research findings have had a degree of influence of the field of embryology (the study of the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the fetus stage) as a whole and whose work was above and beyond the substantial majority of others in the field. Our client is a citizen of Tanzania. In that the EB-2 priority date is current we are preparing to file an adjustment of status application on behalf of our client.
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