Our immigration lawyers in Philadelphia assisted the mother of a U.S. Permanent Resident to extend her B-2 status for a 6 month period. The mother had entered the United States in B-2 status. The purpose of her trip was to visit her son and his...
Brian H. Getson, Esquire, a Philadelphia Immigration Lawyer, represented a US Citizen client who lived for many years in the US with his wife, a Mexican Citizen who had entered the United States without Inspection. Prior to the new stateside waiver rules, his wife had...
A U.S. citizen from India had filed an I-130 Petition for the entry into the United States as a permanent resident of her married daughter over the age of 21. Her daughter’s husband and children under 21 were derivative beneficiaries. After nearly a decade of...
Getson & Schatz represented a U.S. citizen living in New York who was born in Sierra Leone in the K-1 fiancé visa application process. She wished to have her fiancé from Sierra Leone enter the US so that they could get married. Our client filed...
When a foreign national marries a US Citizen, the US Citizen can sponsor children of the foreign national for a green card so long as the child was under 18 years of age at the time of the marriage. This is the law under Section...
Our immigration lawyers handled a matter involving the application of a Form I-601 waiver for our client, a Jamaican national who had married a U.S. Citizen, both of whom reside just outside of Philadelphia. This Form I-601 waiver was necessary because our client had committed...
Getson & Schatz represented an Uzbeki national who entered the United States on a F-1 Visa. She violated her F-1 status and was placed into removal proceedings. However, she never received a Notice to Appear (NTA) from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since DHS...
Getson & Schatz represented a contract research organization (CRO) in the Philadelphia area in the process of sponsoring an individual for H-1B status. CROs provide support, outsourced on a contact basis, to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, as well as foundations, research institutions,...
Getson & Schatz successfully aided a Kenyan national in going through the process of entering the United States as the fiancée of a U.S. citizen all the way through obtaining citizenship, all in Philadelphia. First, our immigration lawyers helped our client obtain a K-1 Visa...
We represented a corporation in Florida dealing in the acquisition, management, and disposition of residential real estate properties in sponsoring an individual for an H-1B change of employer petition for part-time employment as a financial advisor. The nature of the position was to advise the...
