Hey friends. If you're interested in here in a wonderful testimony about how we were
able to help our client get an approval for expedited processing of his wife's
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presentation that will take you behind the scenes on what was going on with this case, and also
how we were able to help our client win and get this fast approval.
So let's dive right into it because I tell you friends, this is one of the stories that
make doing immigration worthwhile. For me. This is all about bringing this, uh,
wonderful couple together. So now what was going on with them? Well, first of all, they were both
living in foreign countries when they met and I'm saying foreign countries, right? Because the
U S citizen petitioner was actually living abroad in another country. And then the spouse was living
in another country at the time of their meeting. They had some very unusual circumstances involved,
uh, with respect to how they met. Um, but nevertheless, the marriage was later
consummated, which is also an important step, uh, to prove the validity of marriage for immigration
purposes. The U S citizen spouse continued to support his wife financially. And in some other
ways now, uh, things got complicated for them. The spouse, the U S citizen spouse consulted with
us in January, 2021. And we quickly identified some issues involved in his past divorces. It
was difficult for him to obtain his past divorce decrees once he was able to do so. We quickly
learned that his youth, his most recent divorce date was after his marriage to his foreign spouse,
which meant that actually they're not legally married. Right? And so this was this presented
some major challenges for him. Um, he had to remarry her and it was done virtually or by proxy,
and then friends. It became very clear as we were working on the case that this is one of those
cases where we're going to have to seek expedited process and given what was going on and what was
going on guys is our client had some significant medical conditions and he was hospitalized and
he also had no income and some other things were going on and we thought, well, we've
got to try to get this case quickly approved, um, based on these humanitarian issues.
So we filed a case in June of 2021. And again, it kind of dragged out because of
the whole divorce decree issue. Once that was resolved, we filed the case in June of 2021,
and we requested expedited processing based on urgent humanitarian medical grounds.
We also focused on the validity of the marriage. And that was the biggest thing for us, because
again, focusing on how they met the consummation of the marriage passed divorces, the proxy wedding
ceremony, and some other issues, all of that really required, um, a great deal of explanation
because, you know, it was different. There were some elements here that, uh, were kind of unusual.
Nevertheless, U I S approved the case on November 1st and the case was created. The case creation
happened at the national visa center level on November 4th, 2021. Now, generally speaking
U S CIS. Um, during normal times, I always say this during normal times, U S CIS processes,
the, uh, immediate relative spousal petition, um, anywhere from six months to nine months.
And we've had some cases actually in which it was like five months, but when you, when it's a case
such as the one that I'm discussing in this video, where there are layers of complex issues going on,
this type of approval, doesn't happen, usually happen this quickly. We caution dot client that
this was great. We got the approval. Um, now the case is at the NVC level, but the other big, big
challenge will be how the spouse will perform at the U S embassy interview, because that's really
what it's going to come down to. So we're going to continue to work with them on this, and also seek
expedited process and at the NBC level so that the wife can get, um, a fast, uh, interview date as
well. Some of these issues may be familiar to you. Maybe you have other issues. I invite you again to
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