Carefull read, I had 1 lawyer for the immigration and another for the felony
WAIT.
I didn't see this. Are you telling me your lawyer allowed you to confess that you intentionally checked that box, making it a slam-dunk case for the prosecutor? I am not a lawyer, but even I know of the 5th amendment of the US constitution. He should have advised you to say nothing, and if the prosecutor didn't want to risk losing the case in a jury trial (because he had to prove intent), he should have made a deal with you, reduce it to a misdemeanor and unspecified 'false statement'. The jury might buy your argument that it's just a mistake over a little checkbox.
Instead you confessed and let the mean small town prosecutor hung you by the balls with your own word, while your 'lawyer' did nothing. Splendid. Then he has the gall to push you to file N-400 immediately...
For your own sake, find a better lawyer, please.
There was no rehearsal between myself and my immigration lawyer before the interview.He said he did that so it wouldn't be like my answers were rehearsed.I am not sure if it helped or hurt my my admission.If I denied everything, the investigator could have imposed a suspension on my CDL(yes I did have a CDL on the old licence)until the court date.
There is really more to the story.This is how the confusion and charge errupted.I always had a social which I recieved from my dad when I was only 17.That social had my actual full name except middle initial.I always used that social and it always had excellent credit(750score).When I recieved the greencard in 2009, I then went to motor vehicle to get a licence that reflected the actual(to match the greencard middle initial and DOB)The DOB on my prior social's CDL was 2 yrs off.I was pretty much living in the dark for years until NOW.As the story continues, I went to DMV to apply for a drivers(class C) that matches the info on the greencard.At the time I approached DMV I had 2 socials(I presented the greencard social), both with the same name but different initials.The purpose was to get a class C licence with the correct info and then discard the old one as it didn't match my Greencard.
Through facial recognition software, they found a discrepancy in their system.Here you have 1 of the same face on two different identities.The initial class C permit was never mailed and so I went back there to inquire.They then confiscated the green card(2 yr card at that time) and my green card's social.They then gave me an investigators # and told me to contact her.This is when I got my immigration lawyer.Again nothing was rehearsed.I am not sure but, another admission was(through another facial recog), I did renew my brother's drivers licence 10yrs ago.This was done twice.She initailly had four charges against me but she dropped three and kept the only felony.My brothers driver's lic. that I renewed had expired 5 yrs ago.Don't be quick to judge but, I myself , I am not sure.If I had denied, the investigator could have said........."all we can do now is revoke his CDL until the court date".As you know the court date came around about a yr and half later.Imagine if my CDL had been revoked all that time.During the questions, she asked if I had used the old social for credit.I did admit, I had used it for credit but paid everything back and that was why I had a FICO score of 750.This was evident, she checked my credit on both the old social and new.The new social had no credit info.Though I hate what I went through, in liking my lawyer or whatever the case was , she combined my old info and my new info and gave me a CDL.This could have been denied by DMV.She checked both my background on both social/name and nothing came up.She also let my lawyer know that the outcome of the case can affect my status.
After the interview, my immigration explained to me about what she meant by that.He said, ........."she meant when I apply for citizenship they will look into the severity of the crime and they may deny me:.Before the judge imposed his punishment, he also cautioned me about this same thing.My lawyer must have known that there is no jail time for this crime to have said what he said.
Anyway, I have put this behind me, and at this point my old social is with them and they have contacted SSI to discard this.I have started off with a prepaid credit card to build my credit on my new identity.There was a freeze on my new social's credit info with equifax but I have rectified that.
I have built something for myself in this country, I have a whole trucking company with 3 trucks to run.I am not yet thinking about citizenship.$7500 later, I am thinking about LIVING.