My wife and I first came to California in 1984. We lived there for 19 years, worked and paid our dues to the govt. and not even once asked for a penny to help us survived. When SAW came, we applied but was eventually denied. The next chance we got was for employer based petition. The first time we applied and paid alot of money to the Law office of Abramowitz, the DOL denied the petition. We finally went to Atty. Michael Gurfinkel and filed a second labor cert for an new employer. It was approved and we got our work permits. in the meantime this was going on, we decided to apply for an immigrant visa in Canada and we were approved. In feb.2003, we Left Los Angeles and moved to Vancouver. In the meantime, we never informed the INS that we left the U.S. and our employer is still continuing with the petition. December of 2003, we got a letter from BCIS requesting for our appearance at their Gardena office in L.A. for fingerprinting.
My question, does this fingerprinting equates to issuance of our Green card or should we expect another long delays after that. We are trying to find ways to get back to the U. S. because all of our kids were born there, the eldest being 16 yrs old. and they are having a hard time adjusting to life here in Canada.
Also, I heard that if we do not appear or rquest for re scheduling, BCIS will consider our case as " abandoned" and that we will be subjected to a 3-10 yrs ban.
American Immigration Law sometimes is so stupid. We can be considered as voluntarily giving up on our petition and yet we are still being subjected to a ban, when there are millions of illegal Aliens in the U.S. they dont even know the whereabouts how ironic is that?
My question, does this fingerprinting equates to issuance of our Green card or should we expect another long delays after that. We are trying to find ways to get back to the U. S. because all of our kids were born there, the eldest being 16 yrs old. and they are having a hard time adjusting to life here in Canada.
Also, I heard that if we do not appear or rquest for re scheduling, BCIS will consider our case as " abandoned" and that we will be subjected to a 3-10 yrs ban.
American Immigration Law sometimes is so stupid. We can be considered as voluntarily giving up on our petition and yet we are still being subjected to a ban, when there are millions of illegal Aliens in the U.S. they dont even know the whereabouts how ironic is that?
