Special Registartion Related Question after GC approved.

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4riend

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Dear Fellows,

I never been out of US since i had my special registration. Now green card is approved. I am planning to visit back home. I was told by some fellows, I have to ask USCIS to take my name out of the special registration database otherwise would be problem when I will re-enter US. I asked the Local office, they said they do not do anything like this, it should be done at POE. what to do next? please share your experience. :confused:
Thanks In advance.
4riend
 
i, too, am/was subject to SR, which i had duly complied with, and which was a year or so before i got my GC approval. i travelled to europe the very next month following my approval, and was let back in the u.s. without any problems or secondary inspections etc, just on the strength of my GC stamp. i never applied to the CIS to have my name taken out of the SR database; i didn't even think about it either: i guess when they see your GC plastic or stamp a the POE, they will not bother with SR, assuming that your SR obligations had been deemed to have been met when they approved your GC.
 
Pork Chop said:
assuming that your SR obligations had been deemed to have been met when they approved your GC.
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I find the intent of the author in the above to be malicious. Rest of rig-morole is okay.
 
At the time of NSEERs, I was also advised to update CIS if my I-485 was approved. It was, but I did not notify them (I felt it wasn’t worth the effort). I made two trips outside the United States since then. One to Asia and one by road to Canada. I had my plastic card with me both times. No issues. However, when CIS was adjudicating my I-485 I did get an RFE to show evidence of compliance with NSEERs regulations (sent them a photocopy of my I-94).

If you want to cover all bases, you can go to the CIS field office where you did your registration. Take your card and ask them to remove you from their list. This is the most thorough approach. Again, I decided to ignore it because: (a) I already sent them and RFE (b) NSEERs was discontinued by the time my AOS petition was approved.

And daJudge, I happen to find Pork Chop’s posting quite informative and accurate.

Rgds,
sadiq
 
:) Thanks Pork Chop, Sadiq and daJudge for sharing your experience with me.
You are awesome fellows, I gone through almost all post by both (Pork Chop and Sadiq) of you guys to find out if you have mentioned anything related to POE for special registratant but could not find it, I knew both of you are from the special registration countries. By reading posts by Pork chop it seems I am in 100 mile radious from Pork Chop backhome.

I did visit the field office and was told they don't do it , it should be done at POE. That why I need your experience at POE and the procedure if any.
Again thanks a lot for your help.
4riend,
 
I’ll give some details on my case. Maybe that will help. I went in for NSEERs in February 2003. My I-485 petition was approved in Sept. of that year (got an RFE to demonstrate NSEERS compliance, which goes to show how worthless the whole process was!). The CIS officer did mention that I would have to notify them once my status changed so that they could take me off their list. I never did.

In March 2004 I went home for a visit and came back three weeks later. There were no questions at the POE. A few months later I drove to Canada. Similarly, no issues at the border. It looks like NSEERs has been suspended indefinitely. I personally believe that if you complied with the Special Registration requirements, you are ok if your status has changed to a PR. This belief is based solely on my personal experience. I would love to hear from others who’ve been in the same situation.

Best rgds,
sadiq
 
Any statement that Immigration Officer gave in early 2003 or before, viz-a-viz "special registration" stands TODAY as NULLIFIED. This is because the law of humanity prevailed and profiling lost. You only need to worry about Special registration, if you were NOT registered in 2002/2003
 
Thanks. This seems to be the consensus so if you complied with NSEERs you are ok. DaJudge do you know of any CIS or DOJ websites that talk about this issue?

One thing though: it wasn’t just the law of humanity that led to NSEERs suspension. The program turned out to be a miserable failure. The people complying with it were law abiding. The worst individuals they managed to ferret out were those overstaying visas or with warrants for minor crimes. The extra manpower shifted to this program caused delays in the system for everyone including those not covered by the law. DOJ (i.e. Ashcroft) finally realized that there were better ways to use the limited resources at CIS.

Thanks,
sadiq
 
i don't have too much more to add than what sadiq has already posted. try as i might, i cannot recall what, if any, instructions i received at the time of my NSEERS compliance regarding any formalities subsequent to GC approval. and, as i said earlier, i didn't even think about NSEERS again, including when i travelled to europe and back.

nor my experience at the POE even remotely reminded me of NSEERS. i was surprised when the officer at the POE waved me through in a minute or two, without even a secondary inspection. and that was just on the stregth of an i551 stamp on an i94 card stapled to my pakistani passport.

i don't think at this point that i am going to worry any more about NSEERS in the future, unless indicated by some turn of events.
 
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