Sponsoring Sibling(s) -- with complications

[mng]

I hold us citizenship and would like to sponsor my brother and his family.
we came here together, but his GC application was denied, after which he remained in the country for several years illegally. He left for our home country several years ago, and a year after that he was recruited by the american company to work with the military of the united states in Afghanistan. he was very upfront with them about living in the country illegally, but they hired him anyway. not only that, he was brought to the US for orientation before being deployed to the military base in Kabul. I want to make it clear -- he was not a military person, he just worked for them on the base.
I just looked up the I130 form, and it has a bunch of questions on whether the petitioned person has been in the country. I am not sure what to make of it. his initial entry and departure records are long destroyed, and even his initial A number is impossible to recover.
Any words of advise as to how could I proceed will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Regards

MNG

 

[Triple Citizen]

How do you know this?

his initial entry and departure records are long destroyed, and even his initial A number is impossible to recover.

 

[AzBlk]

I hold us citizenship and would like to sponsor my brother and his family.
we came here together, but his GC application was denied, after which he remained in the country for several years illegally. He left for our home country several years ago, and a year after that he was recruited by the american company to work with the military of the united states in Afghanistan. he was very upfront with them about living in the country illegally, but they hired him anyway. not only that, he was brought in the US for orientation before being deployed in the military base in Kabul. I want to make it clear -- he was not a military person, he just worked for them on the base.
I just looked up the I130 form, and it has a bunch of questions on whether the petitioned person has been in the country. I am not sure what to make of it. his initial entry and departure records are long destroyed, and even his initial A number is impossible to recover.
Any words of advise as to how I could proceed will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Regards

MNG

Just answer as truthfully as you can remember. It will be several years maybe a decade anyway before you can come over on your sponsorship so whatever ban if any should have expired by then.

 

[TheRealCanadian]

we came here together, but his GC application was denied, after which he remained in the country for several years illegally. He left for our home country several years ago, and a year after that he was recruited by the american company to work with the military of the united states in Afghanistan. he was very upfront with them about living in the country illegally, but they hired him anyway. not only that, he was brought in the US for orientation before being deployed in the military base in Kabul.

My understanding is that someone who enters the US before the end of the 10-year bar faces a lifetime re-entry bar, so an attorney consult should be done.

 

[mng]

How do you know this?

Before he left in 2002, he went to a lawyer, who had access to an internal database, and his record was not found, and his A number generated no results.
As I said, he came back in 2004 for a 10-day orientation session in Texas, before his Afghanistan deployment. He was not explained however whether ban was lifted for good due to his recruitment, or it was just a one time thing.

 

[Triple Citizen]

This attorney had access to USCIS databases?

Before he left in 2002, he went to a lawyer, who had access to an internal database, and his record was not found, and his A number generated no results.