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I've now been married to my wife for almost 5 years. She has been in the states for 13 years. After we married, I filed for her green card and she received it after going through the two year process and interview. It wasn't difficult at all, until we learned there was an unknown "temporary file" created for her before she moved to a new address and filed under different circumstances, and INS took her green card away and placed it in her new file). Unfortunately, her mother (who was doing the paperwork for her) didn't file a change of address with INS (yes my wife just turned of-age too). My wife didn't know better at the time neither. Suffice it to say -- ignorance is no excuse for the law -- but 13 years later and my life has been turned upside down in a mess that seems to have no end.
While I quickly found out our marriage wouldn't resolve this-it's been painful to find any competent attorney who could do better. Our current attorney has done nothing in three years but says it's a special situation that needs the consent of an INS attorney to reopen her original case. He's looking.... (This is our second attorney as the first returned our retainer after a year of nothing...)
I understand we only need to reopen the original deportation order (entered in abstencia) and have it dismissed. The records show my wife didn't receive the temporary file's order to appear, and the second file was created long before the original moved to deportation.
I need help in finding any group or organization that may offer advise or help. I've been on a letter writing campaign to elected officials with no luck (our local representative "may help in the worse case sinerio, and a review by the Clinton administrations liaison to immigration wound up in the liaison telling me "Yeah there was a mistake - but we cannot do anything about it.... that we will have to go to court")
Fine and dandy-but I cannot seem to get our day there.
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Any similar stories and outcomes would also help.
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Thanks
Glen
While I quickly found out our marriage wouldn't resolve this-it's been painful to find any competent attorney who could do better. Our current attorney has done nothing in three years but says it's a special situation that needs the consent of an INS attorney to reopen her original case. He's looking.... (This is our second attorney as the first returned our retainer after a year of nothing...)
I understand we only need to reopen the original deportation order (entered in abstencia) and have it dismissed. The records show my wife didn't receive the temporary file's order to appear, and the second file was created long before the original moved to deportation.
I need help in finding any group or organization that may offer advise or help. I've been on a letter writing campaign to elected officials with no luck (our local representative "may help in the worse case sinerio, and a review by the Clinton administrations liaison to immigration wound up in the liaison telling me "Yeah there was a mistake - but we cannot do anything about it.... that we will have to go to court")
Fine and dandy-but I cannot seem to get our day there.
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Any similar stories and outcomes would also help.
[email protected]
Thanks
Glen
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