Dear LolaLi (and others),
I read your earlier post at the first line of this forum and found this paragraph:
“She then asked me if I have ever been in deportation proceedings and I told her that since I filed for asylum and was referred to a judge, I was technically placed in deportation proceedings. The judge gave me my asylum and removed me from deportation proceedings. She was unfamiliar with whether or not that should mean we mark 'yes' for that question. So she got up and asked a colleague. She came back an told me that it doesn't but that she will make a note in the application that I was awarded asylum by an immigration judge.”
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?t=280861
It seems that I am facing the same question regarding how to fill the N 400 form, part 10, E.
After being referred to a judge, I was found “removable” and thus, entered into the deportation proceeding which means that once the judge denies my application, I would be ordered to be deported immediately. But instead, the judge granted my asylum case.
Now, looking back carefully, I found that my lawyer prepared the documents containing this paragraph: “ For these reasons, I request that I be granted asylum, withholding of deportation, and relief from my deportation under the enacted Convention Against torture.”
Reading from the judge’s order, there is a subject of “respondent’s application for withholding of removal was ()granted, ()denied, ()withdrawn and ()other”, he crossed (other) and later, he explained in his hand writing: “Torture Convention Relief not needed”.
From my understanding, since I wasn’t in the deportation process or hadn’t been ordered to be deported, the question 27 of N 400 should be No. But, what about the next question 28: “Have you ever applied for any kind of relief from removal, exclusion, or deportation?” What should I choose?
LolaLi, how did you fill your form? And what is meaning of “it doesn't but that she will make a note in the application”?
Thank you all.
I read your earlier post at the first line of this forum and found this paragraph:
“She then asked me if I have ever been in deportation proceedings and I told her that since I filed for asylum and was referred to a judge, I was technically placed in deportation proceedings. The judge gave me my asylum and removed me from deportation proceedings. She was unfamiliar with whether or not that should mean we mark 'yes' for that question. So she got up and asked a colleague. She came back an told me that it doesn't but that she will make a note in the application that I was awarded asylum by an immigration judge.”
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?t=280861
It seems that I am facing the same question regarding how to fill the N 400 form, part 10, E.
After being referred to a judge, I was found “removable” and thus, entered into the deportation proceeding which means that once the judge denies my application, I would be ordered to be deported immediately. But instead, the judge granted my asylum case.
Now, looking back carefully, I found that my lawyer prepared the documents containing this paragraph: “ For these reasons, I request that I be granted asylum, withholding of deportation, and relief from my deportation under the enacted Convention Against torture.”
Reading from the judge’s order, there is a subject of “respondent’s application for withholding of removal was ()granted, ()denied, ()withdrawn and ()other”, he crossed (other) and later, he explained in his hand writing: “Torture Convention Relief not needed”.
From my understanding, since I wasn’t in the deportation process or hadn’t been ordered to be deported, the question 27 of N 400 should be No. But, what about the next question 28: “Have you ever applied for any kind of relief from removal, exclusion, or deportation?” What should I choose?
LolaLi, how did you fill your form? And what is meaning of “it doesn't but that she will make a note in the application”?
Thank you all.
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