A new client recently contacted us and faxed a letter from the Detention and Removal Office requesting that he appear in person within one week. The Detention and Removal Office is the arm of the Immigration Service that arrests, detains, and actually deports immigrants with...
Our Philadelphia Immigration Lawyers received approval of an I-130 Petition filed by a U.S. Citizen for her sister in 2003. USCIS generally takes many years to decide I-130 Petitions filed by U.S. Citizens for siblings because of the visa backlogs in the Family Fourth Preference...
Our client had self-filed an I-130 Petition on behalf of her sister 7 years ago. Because of the long waiting period for siblings of U.S. citizens to immigrate to the United States USCIS takes several years to adjudicate sibling I-130 Petitions. Our client changed her...
U.S. Citizens residing overseas may file an I-130 Petition for an immediate relative directly with the appropriate USCIS overseas field office rather than filing the I-130 Petition with a USCIS Service Center in the United States. Our U.S. Citizen client has been living in London...
A mother of a United States Citizen had been visiting her child for several years in the United States. She would enter on a B-2 visitor visa and return to her home country prior to the expiration date of her authorized stay. Subsequent to her...
Our client is a Canadian Citizen who had met her U.S. Citizen husband during a visit to the United States. She had visited him multiple times in Philadelphia and they developed a relationship and fell in love. Approximately 4 months subsequent to her last visit...
A jointly filed I-751 Petition was approved for Joint Petitioners who are currently separated and living apart but are working on reconciling their marriage. A joint I-751 Petition was legally allowed to be filed under these circumstances as no legal separation or divorce proceedings had...
In April 2007 our client filed an I-485 Adjustment of Status Application to apply for a green card based upon an I-130 Immigrant Petition for Alien Relative filed by a U.S. Citizen spouse. USCIS did not promptly schedule an adjustment interview and our immigration attorneys...
We filed an I-485 adjustment of status application for a principal alien and derivative spouse on the basis of an approved I-140 National Interest Waiver Petition. The adjustment of status of the principal alien was approved expeditiously but the adjustment of status of the derivative...
Our client filed for adjustment of status on the basis of a bona fide marriage to a United States Citizen. Our client had entered the United States in F-1 student status to attend school but never attended the school designated during the visa interview, instead...
