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The client first contacted Tsang & Associates many years ago explaining that she just graduated with a music degree and wanted to apply for the R-1 religious visa. Now, it was time to apply for the EB-4 religious green card application.

The major challenge in this case was to prove how she was going to work in a religious capacity, when in-person church services were halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We also needed to show that she was going to work in a religious capacity even though she was a musician with a music degree.

We gathered all of the documents to explain the spiritual nature of her role as a worship leader and how music played an integral role in the service, whether held in person or remotely.


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Back in 2016, Tsang & Associates prepared EB-1A petition for extraordinary ability for an expert in crypto currency. The petition was approved but the client had to wait many years to apply for his green card because of visa retrogression and backlogs. Fast forward to 2021, the client was finally eligible to apply for his immigration visa at the overseas consulate. However, by this time he had already semi-retired and needed to prove that he was still relevant today and an expert in crypto currency, a field that went from obscurity to now mainstream. In preparation for the consular interview, Tsang & Associates coached the client and prepared documents to prove that he was still an expert in this field, and it was approved.

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In today’s episode, Joseph shares how Tsang & Associates overcame a difficult Request for Evidence on an I-140 petition, requesting that the company demonstrate its ability to pay for multiple PERM beneficiaries. It turned out that in addition to our case, the company had other PERM applications that were being sponsored at the same time all represented by different attorneys. The problem was that the RFE was issued in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and the company had incurred financial losses. Instead of giving up, the firm decided to gather all the evidence showing the company’s assets, affiliated companies and their assets, bank accounts, real estate, and other documents to prove the company indeed had ability to pay all of the prevailing wages. Not only was the case approved, but Tsang & Associates served as corporate counsel to help the company get the financial help it needed.

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In today’s story, the client came to the US with the hopes of marrying her prince charming. But what should have been a fairytale quickly turned in to a nightmare as she silently suffered from emotional and physical abuse from her U.S. spouse. She decided to get a divorce and remove herself from this dangerous situation. The problem was, in order to file a I-751 waiver, she needed to prove that her marriage was bona-fide in the first place. As is the case with most domestic violence victims, she had very little financial documents or proof that their marriage was real. Thankfully, she saved all of her text messages and Tsang & Associates creatively pieced them together in a compelling narrative, successfully proving to USCIS that the client entered into a real marriage that subsequently ended due to her husband’s abuse. The I-751 waiver was approved and the client was given a chance at a fresh start in the US as a permanent legal resident.

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In this episode, Joseph provides an overview of how a Ph.D. student was able to get his green card despite several uphill challenges along the way.
 
The client was a Ph.D. student in the U.S. conducting important research on cancer. He was approved for the EB-1A extraordinary ability immigrant visa but had to wait several years for his priority date to be current. During this time, he graduated from his Ph.D. program and his OPT was fast expiring but he still had to wait for his green card. He contacted our firm to prepare an emergency O-1A “self-petition” extraordinary ability case, which we filed in less than 2 months after extensive research. Unfortunately, the case was issued a challenging Request for Evidence (RFE) that questioned several issues, including the fact that the company was located at his home address. Our firm spent several months preparing an in-depth response to each point in the RFE and the case was approved. In the meantime, his priority date became current and our firm quickly put together his family’s I-485 Adjustment of Status applications in just a few weeks and also requested USCIS to expedite the case. Their green cards were issued in less than a year, despite the long backlogs from COVID-19!

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What happens if you are inspected at the U.S. border but the officer forgets to stamp your passport? In this episode, Joseph shares the plight of one client who faced this exact predicament and was now under the suspicion of fraud for lying about her inspection on her green card application. The client reached out to multiple attorneys but they all told her that her application was doomed.  However, the client did not give up and reached out to Tsang & Associates where we carefully reviewed her records and decided to take on the challenge.

We prepared a 200-page petition arguing that it was in fact the government’s mistake and not the client and the case was approved against all odds!

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In this episode, Joseph shares the story of a client who had just one month to prove that he paid child support 5 years ago for his N-400 Naturalization application. The only problem was that he didn’t have any documents to prove that he made payments! The client had paid for expenses in cash and didn’t know what to do. When he reached out to Tsang & Associates, we helped him gather all of the evidences he needed to prove that he did indeed support his child financially in many different ways, and his N-400 was successfully approved.   

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Joseph discusses the creative use of a legal opinion letter, after a home-buyer got his loan denied due to a misunderstanding.   

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How does a professor meet the qualifications of the EB-1A extraordinary ability visa if he no longer wants to teach, but instead wants to travel and document his findings on U.S. subcultures? This episode explores how Tsang & Associates creatively argued that the professor’s unique research documentation project would be in the best interest of the U.S., likening his travels to that of Anthony Bourdain, a renowned chef and travel documentarian.

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Joseph recounts how the firm successfully overcame a challenging Request for Evidence (RFE) for an O-1A “self-petition” extraordinary ability case in just 3 months. The client was a recent Ph.D. graduate who had to file an emergency O-1A self-petition case as his OPT was fast expiring. Since the O-1 employer was incorporated right before the case the filed, USCIS questioned how there was a bona-fide employment offer if the company was brand new and located at his home address. In response, the firm prepared extensive documents to prove that there was a bona-fide employment relationship between the client and the company. Some of the evidence included an in-depth analysis of the grant award, research proposals with other research labs and professors, exclusive licensing agreements signed between partners, product evaluation reports, comparison reports with other competitors’ products, letters from professors describing the importance of the product and so forth. Each document took several weeks to prepare and intense hours of work, but it all paid off when the client’s O-1A case was approved by USCIS.

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