Violation of restraining order and N400 (need advice...please)

[metoolate]

I am posting for the first time and I need advice.

I will give a brief description of my situation and I would love some advice from an immigration lawyer or someone who has been in the same situation.

I have been in the US for 16 years, came here when I was 17, went to boarding school, went to college, been perfectly legal in terms of my F-1 status and always been on top of my immigration status, in 1998 I won the green card lottery and I got my green card in 1999.

In 2002 I started dating a girl and I decided to move from my state to the state she was living in after a year. Three weeks after i moved she broke up with me and I was exetremely heart broken, I called her a bunch of times,sent her flowers and eventually I got a restraining order, I was never abusive, such sappy and confessed my love to her.

A couple of monthes later I had to go to a seminar to the college she worked at and I was a little concerned that she might run into me, I had no contact with what so ever, but because I didn't know what to do I called her work phone to see if she still worked there and she answered the phone and recognized my voice, I didn't recoginize her voice and called the police and I got arrested, I got a criminal defense lawyer and a immigration lawyer and I admitted to calling her but not to contact her so I got a "continued without a finding" which is not a convication of guilty and I got 11 months probabtion which I completed. I filed my N400 and answered everything honestly and my probabtion officer to wrote a nice letter for me , including a bunch of my friends wrote letters for me. The court papers clearly say no thearts or abusive, just one phone call.

I went for the interview, passed the test and the english test, the officer asked me about my arrest, I was honest with her, didn't go in the detail like I did above, but told her that i was exetremely heart broken and didn't know what to do.

The officer mentioned to me that she has to discuss this with her supervisors and a decision can't be made now, that was in Jan, I haven't heard anything back. I am in Boston, and I am indian but born and raised in Southern Africa.

I just need an honest answer from someone here, if I need to start packing my bags or I have no hope, that is something I have to live with, I have always been working and been legal here, I have a great job and I love being here.

Please let me know, any advise would help.

thanks

Me

 

[AlexanderG]

For one you would not have to 'pack up' .... in the worst case you may have to apply again when this situation is five years in the past. You would not lose your greencard. Alex

P.S. Just from what I learned here in this forum I have the feeling that you ultimately will get your approval, just the procedure for a person to make this call just takes (too) much time.

 

[gcardo]

if you get rejected I am pretty sure you can appeal the decision and win (prefereably with a good lawyer, but with good preparation you may do it yourself).

You will definitely not get thrown out of the country. They won't take your greencard based on what you explained above.

 

[metoolate]

Thank you

Thanks for the input, I hope everything goes well. I was hoping Johnny Cash would give me his opinon....not that I don't value anyone else's.....if there is anyone out there who has had a similar situation drop a line.

Thanks