ashleythekitty
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A friend of mine is having a huge problem with her adjustment of status.
She came here as a visitor more than six years ago. After she got here, she filed for Asylum (she's from a Central American country). For some reasons, she didn't properly respond to the letters she got from USCIS and her application was denied.
At that point, she was living with her boyfriend, who is a U.S. citizen. They ran off and got married after she got the letter stating that they were starting deportation proceeding against her.
Then they never seem to be able to adjust their status. They tried to find a lawyer, but all of them seemed to charge too much (that is what her husband said). I heard her American mother-in-law said that the immigration judge announced that her case was officially closed and they wouldn't reopen her case again. I am not sure if they go through the proceeding to reopen her case or not. I know she can't adjust her status like most people who adjust their status from a F-1, B-2 or H1b, because she got married after she was subject to deportation.
Two months ago, she received a call from the USCIS that she must leave the country or they were going to pick her up. She booked a plane ticket and went back to her home country. Now her husband finally woke up and hired an attorney to try to get her back.
She doesn't speak or write English very well, so she asked me to find out if that was going to work or not. How the attorney is going to clean up the whole mess ? She doesn't trust attorneys any more, thinking that they charge too much and they don't do anything to help. I simply suggested that it's better to have an attorney working on her case than sitting oversea losing her marriage and her life in the U.S..
Just would appreciate whatever advice you might have for her case.
She came here as a visitor more than six years ago. After she got here, she filed for Asylum (she's from a Central American country). For some reasons, she didn't properly respond to the letters she got from USCIS and her application was denied.
At that point, she was living with her boyfriend, who is a U.S. citizen. They ran off and got married after she got the letter stating that they were starting deportation proceeding against her. Then they never seem to be able to adjust their status. They tried to find a lawyer, but all of them seemed to charge too much (that is what her husband said). I heard her American mother-in-law said that the immigration judge announced that her case was officially closed and they wouldn't reopen her case again. I am not sure if they go through the proceeding to reopen her case or not. I know she can't adjust her status like most people who adjust their status from a F-1, B-2 or H1b, because she got married after she was subject to deportation.
Two months ago, she received a call from the USCIS that she must leave the country or they were going to pick her up. She booked a plane ticket and went back to her home country. Now her husband finally woke up and hired an attorney to try to get her back.
She doesn't speak or write English very well, so she asked me to find out if that was going to work or not. How the attorney is going to clean up the whole mess ? She doesn't trust attorneys any more, thinking that they charge too much and they don't do anything to help. I simply suggested that it's better to have an attorney working on her case than sitting oversea losing her marriage and her life in the U.S..
Just would appreciate whatever advice you might have for her case.