I-129 Petition for a NonImmigrant Worker H-1B

Jul 31, 2020

OUTCOME: Approved

Marriage-based Adjustment of Status, with Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver; and Fraud Waiver

Jan 01, 2019

OUTCOME: On January 2019, Croce & Associates filed a fraud waiver (Form I-601) on the applicant’s behalf and in October 2019 USCIS approved the fraud waiver and the U.S. consulate approved the applicant’s immigrant visa.

Applicant had entered the U.S. on a tourist visa, married a lawful permanent resident within 90 days of her admission to the U.S. and then filed an application for adjustment of status with another att ... orney. USCIS denied the adjustment of status application because the applicant had fallen out of status. In December 2017, Applicant retained Croce & Associates to prepare and file a provisional unlawful presence waiver (I601A) to overcome her inadmissibility for unlawful presence and to proceed with an Immigrant Visa through the U.S. consulate abroad. In January 2018, the Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver was approved and the applicant proceeded to attend her immigrant visa interview at a U.S. consulate abroad. In October 2018, the U.S. consulate denied the Applicant’s Immigrant Visa Petition finding that she had committed fraud because at the time she entered the U.S. on a tourist visa she had immigrant intend as she married her lawful permanent resident husband within 90 days of her entry. The U.S. consulate told applicant she would have to file a fraud waiver to overcome her inadmissibility due to fraud.

Family Based Adjustment with Waiver of Inadmissibility (I-601)

May 01, 2017

OUTCOME: On January 2019, Croce & Associates filed a fraud waiver (Form I-601) on the applicant’s behalf and in October 2019 USCIS approved the fraud waiver and the U.S. consulate approved the applicant’s immigrant visa.

Applicant who had entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in 1982 and who had fallen out of status. He filed a marriage-based application for adjustment of status with another attorney but it was denied as ... the marriage ended in divorce. Applicant had several arrests and convictions in various states, and prior attorneys tried to file for adjustment through a petition from applicant’s U.S. citizen daughter but were not able to obtain the required certified arrest and convictions records and this petition was also denied. In May 2017, Applicant retained Croce & Associates to file a Relative Petition (I-130) having Applicant’s U.S. citizen daughter sponsor Applicant for residency along with an Application for Adjustment of Status (Form I-485). In September 2017, Applicant’s residency application was filed. USCIS issued an RFE requesting all of the applicant’s certified arrest and disposition records. Croce & Associates assisted the Applicant in obtain most of his records. One police department unknowingly mailed the record directly to USCIS before the firm could produce all of the remaining records and USCIS denied the case because only one record was submitted, and all of the records needed to be submitted at the same time. Croce & Associates hand-delivered a Motion to Reopen with the local USCIS office who approved the motion and reopened applicant’s case. USCIS then issued a request for evidence requiring a joint sponsor and then finally advised applicant that he needed to file a waiver of inadmissibility to overcome his admissibility for conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude (theft). Croce & Associates prepared and filed a comprehensive waiver application demonstrating extreme hardship to the applicant’s three U.S. citizen children and