Hello,
This might be a very confusing situation so here it goes. My family including me, my father, mother, and sister together applied for asylum in the year 2006, and I was the only one who became an asylee in the year 2009. My parents both recieved withholding. Here comes the confusing or the complicated situation. My sister while in process of our asylum case married a Canadian citizen in the year 2008, and recieved her Canadian visa within 4-5 months. She waited in the US for the Master hearing till May 2009, and decided to ask the IJ for voluntary departure thinking she would not recieve the inadmissible bar. She told the whole situation to the IJ, and even asked if she would be able to return to the US after leaving. The IJ told her that voluntary departure is not good in her situation and that she was going to give her withholding as she gave my parents. And that if she wanted to return to US she would need to apply for some sort of a waiver. The IJ seemed to be unsure with the situation as well. So after recieving withholding status, my sister left for Canada the next day of the hearing. Now a couple of months back after getting her PR card she applied for a Visa along with the waiver. The counslate first told her that looking at her situation she might recieve a visa (since her family is here..) but for a short period. But after a couple of weeks she called my sister to the counslate and told her that she has a 10 year inadmissible bar on her!! And that she can not enter US. I know and heard that when you leave US with only withholding status or even asylee w/o greencard you basically give that up. But she was asking for voluntary departure which the IJ didn't give. Can anyone please tell me if there is ANYTHING she can do to come visit us here?? Any sort of waiver, appeal, etc. just anything??
Thank You.
This might be a very confusing situation so here it goes. My family including me, my father, mother, and sister together applied for asylum in the year 2006, and I was the only one who became an asylee in the year 2009. My parents both recieved withholding. Here comes the confusing or the complicated situation. My sister while in process of our asylum case married a Canadian citizen in the year 2008, and recieved her Canadian visa within 4-5 months. She waited in the US for the Master hearing till May 2009, and decided to ask the IJ for voluntary departure thinking she would not recieve the inadmissible bar. She told the whole situation to the IJ, and even asked if she would be able to return to the US after leaving. The IJ told her that voluntary departure is not good in her situation and that she was going to give her withholding as she gave my parents. And that if she wanted to return to US she would need to apply for some sort of a waiver. The IJ seemed to be unsure with the situation as well. So after recieving withholding status, my sister left for Canada the next day of the hearing. Now a couple of months back after getting her PR card she applied for a Visa along with the waiver. The counslate first told her that looking at her situation she might recieve a visa (since her family is here..) but for a short period. But after a couple of weeks she called my sister to the counslate and told her that she has a 10 year inadmissible bar on her!! And that she can not enter US. I know and heard that when you leave US with only withholding status or even asylee w/o greencard you basically give that up. But she was asking for voluntary departure which the IJ didn't give. Can anyone please tell me if there is ANYTHING she can do to come visit us here?? Any sort of waiver, appeal, etc. just anything??
Thank You.