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Immigration Law Success Stories
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.
July 21, 2010
Our firm recently had a PERM case approved for a materials scientist 2 1/2 months after the electronic filing. It has been several years since PERM cases were approved in such a quick time frame which demonstrates that the United States Department of Labor is clearing its backlog of unaudited cases.
Our Philadelphia Immigration law firm represented a foreign national in the joint filing with her husband of an I-751 Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence. The spouses were not living together because the husband had a job in New York that required him to be a live-in caretaker of a disabled individual. The marriage was bona fide at its inception and remained a strong, viable marriage despite the unusual living/employment arrangements. Full disclosure of the circumstances was made to USCIS and following an interview at the USCIS Philadelphia District Office the I-751 Petition was approved.
July 15, 2010
Our Philadelphia Immigration Lawyers received a certification of a PERM Application filed for an Assistant Professor of Economics at a prestigious university in Kansas.
July 8, 2010
Our firm filed an I-751 Petition to Remove the Conditions on Residence for a Conditional Permanent Resident whose children had immigrated to the United States more than 6 months after she obtained her green card. The children had immigrated within 2 years of the mother's marriage so they also received conditional green cards valid for 2 years. The children could not be included with their mother's I-751 petition because they had entered the U.S. more than 6 months after their mother received the green card. The mother's I-751 Petition was approved and we then filed separate petitions for the children within the 90 day period prior to the expiration date of their green cards. We included evidence of the bona fide marriage of their mother and step-father. The I-751 Petitions for the children were approved by USCIS.
In 2009 one of our clients became a United States Citizen and we filed an I-130 Relative Petition on behalf of her sibling. We received the approval notice for the Petition in less than 1 year which is expeditious for this type of Petition. When the priority date for the Petition becomes current our law firm will assist with the Immigrant Visa Process.
In August 2003 we filed a Labor Certification Application for a Chinese National. The Labor Certification was approved as well as the I-140 Petition. During the summer of 2007 when all of the employment based priority dates were current we filed an I-485 Application for Adjustment of Status. The priority date became current in July per the visa bulletin and the green card application was approved. During the waiting period our client remained in the United States in H-1B status working for the same employer that had filed the Labor Certification Application. It can often be an effective strategy for those in the EB-3 category to extend their H-1B beyond six years and remain in the United States until the priority date becomes current and the green card is approved.
July 1, 2010
The USCIS Texas Service Center approved an EB-1A Extraordinary Ability Alien Petition via premium processing for a Researcher at a University in New York who was found to be one of the small percentage of researchers at the top of the field of understanding the molecular mechanisms of disease to find disease treatments, specifically related to cancer and cardiovascular disease. Our client was a National of China who had discovered multiple new treatments for cancer and cardiovascular disease. In support of the Petition we submitted documentation of the receipt of lesser nationally recognized Chinese awards for excellence, memership in associations that require outstanding achievement, published material about the work in major trade publications, evidence of peer review activity judging the work of others, evidence of original scientific contributions, and evidence of authorship of scholarly articles. Now that the Extraordinary Ability Alien Petition has been approved our attorneys will prepare I-485 Adjustment of Status Green Card applications on behalf of our client and the derivative family members.
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