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N-400 Application With Dismissed and Expunged Arrest Records
- Thread starter playmaker
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Not all dismissals are the same. For example, if a defendant enters a plea other than not guilty to a crime in court and the charges are subsequently dismissed, the incident can still count as a conviction under immigration law.If case is dismissed or charges dropped is enough to prove you are not guilty...
Not all dismissals are the same. For example, if a defendant enters a plea other than not guilty to a crime in court and the charges are subsequently dismissed, the incident can still count as a conviction under immigration law.
I have read your posts many times and it seems you like using the word conviction..Infact when i posted my experience after the interview last week, when i said the IO said.."you made my work easier"..you were quick to jump the gun by saying.." i wonder why the IO would say so because even expunged arrest can be considered conviction for immigration purposes"...meaning you either did not read my post very cautiously or you just wanted to air out what you know about conviction assuming others have little knowledge about the law since they have just been naturalized...
Mr/Mrs Bobsmyth, you are thinking too deep for nothing, the law is very broad FYI...As much as you say even entering a plea other than guilty the incident can still be considered a conviction for immigration purposes, I can also tell you that even without an arrest but admitting to a police officer is a conviction for immigration purposes...many situations can be considered convictions under immigration law but we are not here to explain all of them...all we can do is read a specific situation and respond to that specific situation...So stop using the word conviction where its not warranted....
No, you have it wrong. My question was why would the IO think the expungement makes her work easier since you never pleaded guilty and the cases were dismissed in the first place. Does asking for certified court documents somehow make her work harder if the case wasn't expunged?I have read your posts many times and it seems you like using the word conviction..Infact when i posted my experience after the interview last week, when i said the IO said.."you made my work easier"..you were quick to jump the gun by saying.." i wonder why the IO would say so because even expunged arrest can be considered conviction for immigration purposes"...meaning you either did not read my post very cautiously or you just wanted to air out what you know about conviction assuming others have little knowledge about the law since they have just been naturalized...
If you want to talk about specifics you need to stop tying general statements to your case outcome that imply that others will have no issues if their dismissed case was expunged:..all we can do is read a specific situation and respond to that specific situation...So stop using the word conviction where its not warranted....
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?299830-Asking-for-a-certified-court-disposition-but-my-records-are-expunged.-PLEASE-HELP-30-days-left
No, you have it wrong. My question was why would the IO think the expungement makes her work easier since you never pleaded guilty and the cases were dismissed in the first place. Does asking for certified court documents somehow make her work harder if the case wasn't expunged?
If you want to talk about specifics you need to stop tying general statements to your case outcome that imply that others will have no issues if their dismissed case was expunged:
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?299830-Asking-for-a-certified-court-disposition-but-my-records-are-expunged.-PLEASE-HELP-30-days-left
Thats why I am saying you misunderstood the whole thing..The IO said I made her work easier simply because I had documents showing my cases were expunged rather than saying they were expunged and not have any documents showing the cases were expunged...The IO was protecting her decision to approve my application just incase her supervisor happened to question her decision....Thats my assumption because having paperwork in records helps not just for immigration and but any other situation in our daily lifes e.g insurance claims etc....She had to go by what i explained to her aboput what happened and thats the whole advantage of expunging arrest records....Maybe some other IO would have told me to get the court disposition or police report, while i did get those documents before expunging the arrests, I do not have to produce them and they can not use that againts me...