The facts about this case:

• Client has two United States citizen children.
• The older of the two children had RSV and a medical history of respiratory illness.
• That child receives medical care multiple times each year.
• In the United States the family has excellent health insurance coverage via client’s employer which they would lose if the family relocated to Egypt.

The Ranchod Law Group argued exceptional medical hardship because of this and because conditions in Egypt would aggravate the child’s health.

This problem is also compounded by the unavailability of medical care and medications in Egypt.

We also made additional hardship arguments due to:

• the dangerous conditions in Egypt including terrorism and kidnapping;
• the exceptional financial hardship which would accompany relocation to Egypt as relevant to the children;
• the severe educational deficiencies in Egypt;
• the language barrier;
• emotional/mental health hardship to the children;

among other hardships.

The case was approved in a year and three months.

What was interesting in this case was that the two had already experienced separation, so the United States citizen husband, despite all of the hardship, was not willing to remain behind while his wife was in Brazil for two years.

During their short separation, he engaged in unhealthy coping mechanisms which affected his work. Luckily, she was able to return and prevent him from financial ruin. USCIS issued an onerous RFE which The Ranchod Law Group was able to successfully overcome.

• Date Filed: 1/2/2018
• Date Approved: 2/4/2019

The Ranchod Law Group was able to get the case approved even though there was Government Financing¹.

The Facts About this Approval

• Applicant has two U.S. citizen children from a relationship he had while in the U.S.
• Is now married to a U.S. citizen
• He is the stepfather of his wife’s children from her prior marriage.

The Ranchod Law Group argued numerous factors in this case which would contribute to a finding of exceptional hardship whether:

• applicant returned to his home country on his own for two years;
• his qualifying relatives (wife and two children) tried to relocate for the two-year period.

Applicant’s wife has received therapy in the past which we argued is relevant in both scenarios

We maintained:

• If waiver were denied, Applicant would not be able to see his children from his prior relationship.
• If his wife relocated, she wouldn’t be able to see her own children.
• If waiver was denied, the wife and children would all lose their health coverage which is provided by Applicant’s employment.
• Applicant’s wife is a student, unemployed, and completely financially dependent on Applicant, a role he could not fulfill from abroad.
• Applicant couldn’t meet his child support payments from abroad.

approvals are currently taking around 17.5 months

We were pleased with the comparably quick turnaround.

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The facts about this case

• Client is from a country in South Asia.
• Spouse is on a J2 Visa.
• The couple has an elementary school aged child.

In this case there were a number of key factors based on the economical and political situation in the country, namely:

• political turbulence;
• economic crises;
• sharp inflation;
• humanitarian crisis;
• critical shortage of daily necessities;
• unavailability of medical care;
• unavailability of essential medicines;
• absence of clean water and food;
• infrastructure issues;
• lack of education.

All these factors would have an exceptionally negative effect on the child’s safety, health, education, well-being, development, and mental health and would create a situation of extreme hardship.

Here at the The Ranchod Law Group, we relied heavily on our ability to argue the case and document all these negative aspects and conditions the family would experience and endure.