Urgent Advice Needed!!!

[endretro]

My wife is an Registered Nurse from INDIA and we are in US now having a Green Card. The Green Card was filed by Employer/Hospital-A. We have the the copy of the OFFER LETTER from Employer/Hospital-A with us. We were in INDIA then and had taken the CP route for the processing of the GC.

But after coming to US, we came to know that the Employer/Hospital-A has filed for bankruptcy and the job was not there.

My wife then went ahead and searched for a job and found another JOB as RN with Employer/Hospital-B.

Now the agent through whom I had contacted Employer/Hospital-A is harassing us and is asking for a $10,000 fee for break of contract.We had never signed any contract with him. As per him, there was an "implied" condition that my wife had to work with an employer through HIM as it was through him that Employer/Hospital-A petitioned for us.

Do we have to worry about it? Have we done something illegal?Can the agent do us any harm?

 

[pralay]

Do we have to worry about it? Have we done something illegal?Can the agent do us any harm?

First of all you or wife did not do anything illegal. Don't pay a single penny to that exploiting agent. Just ignore him and go ahead with your life. This agent is only an agent who was supposed to get a commission from the hospital when your wife joins. But due to backruptcy, as he is not able to get that commission from hospital he is trying to compensate that loss with your money. As you are new in this country and probably not aware of all the laws, he is banking on it and trying to milk you. Just ignore him. He cannot do anything.

However, regarding immigration issue (and it has nothing do with your agent) I would recommand to talk to an immigration attorney - as the tight timeline (when your wife went to CP, when hospital filed for bankrupcy, when the job was not available anymore etc) can be an issue in future (citizenship application or GC renewal).