HELP for Husbands Visa interview in Ciudad Juarez Dec 23, 2009

[morocco4ever 63]

You came to a forum that has people working hard to bring their SO's over legally. You get straight talk from people who don't sugar coat your situation. Why in the world are you talking sh!t to them just because it isn't what you wanted to hear? The facts are that you and your husband are in deep doo doo on this one. No body here put you in that situation. And that BS about people that HAD to come here illegally is ridiculous. I highly doubt that they were forced. People should be held responsible for their own actions. If you screw up you have to pay the price. If you don't want to pay the price don't screw up.

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

unlike the other billions of illegal Mexicans who HAD to cross illegal for MANY reasons.

And what reason would that be? To break the law?

billions? and HAD to cross? was someone pointing a gun and forcing them to cross the border?

it's IGNORANT people such as you that make this world a horrible place.

yup, i can see you dug deep for a real answer.

And why would I answer to you Charles???? Who the flip are you and why are you posting here???? Has it anything to do with you, or is your life so pathetic that you have nothing better to do. Seriously, people like you just make me ill...

well happy day, i always knew i was good for something

[Susita 175]

And why would I answer to you Charles???? Who the flip are you and why are you posting here???? Has it anything to do with you, or is your life so pathetic that you have nothing better to do. Seriously, people like you just make me ill...

well happy day, i always knew i was good for something

Yeah people like Charles who advocate obeying the US immigration laws, they make me wanna barf How dare you Charles?

[TBoneTX 48,087]

OP: If you explain HOW and WHY he "had" to be in the U.S. illegally, perhaps others (whom you have not yet illegally-alienated) can better understand, si man. You have offered the "must" of the situation multiple times, yet you have never elaborated, which is (only) one of the reasons why people are being blunt with you.

Edited December 11, 2009 by TBoneTX

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

And why would I answer to you Charles???? Who the flip are you and why are you posting here???? Has it anything to do with you, or is your life so pathetic that you have nothing better to do. Seriously, people like you just make me ill...

well happy day, i always knew i was good for something

Yeah people like Charles who advocate obeying the US immigration laws, they make me wanna barf How dare you Charles?

i'm so gonna have to write my congressman. we have a serious problem at the border! people apparently trip on the invisible border line, fall over it onto the usa side (note to osha - investigate the safety at the border before we get sued by some international court for a safety hazard) and because that they are injured and unable to return to their own country! geedubyah bush must have an evil role in this dastardly plan!

[Nagishkaw 510]

geedubyah bush must have an evil role in this dastardly plan!

Can't blame it on 0vomit...he likes illegals.

[Minya's wife 25]

OP: If you explain HOW and WHY he "had" to be in the U.S. illegally, perhaps others (whom you have not yet illegally-alienated) can better understand, si man. You have offered the "must" of the situation multiple times, yet you have never elaborated, which is (only) one of the reasons why people are being blunt with you.

There is another VJ member, her name escapes me at the moment, who'se husband was brought here when he was a child, so it is possible that the "had" to be here is something such. (That case was somewhat more complicated, if I recall, because there was a charge of misrepresentation involved, wherein the mother of the child, upon entry to the US, presented the US passport of a cousin, so the child was technically guilty of misrepresentation.) It is possible that as a minor child one can be brought to the US by their parents, in an EWI situation...grow up here and accrue 10 years of illegal presence. I don't agree that a child should be punished for the 'sins of the father' but US immigration law does not allow for such a thing.

[Susita 175]

geedubyah bush must have an evil role in this dastardly plan!

Can't blame it on 0vomit...he likes illegals.

I like illegals too, the ones that I do know are very nice people. I also love my drug dealing uncle, but that doesn't make what he does suddenly appear legal to me.

[morocco4ever 63]

OP: If you explain HOW and WHY he "had" to be in the U.S. illegally, perhaps others (whom you have not yet illegally-alienated) can better understand, si man. You have offered the "must" of the situation multiple times, yet you have never elaborated, which is (only) one of the reasons why people are being blunt with you.

There is another VJ member, her name escapes me at the moment, who'se husband was brought here when he was a child, so it is possible that the "had" to be here is something such. (That case was somewhat more complicated, if I recall, because there was a charge of misrepresentation involved, wherein the mother of the child, upon entry to the US, presented the US passport of a cousin, so the child was technically guilty of misrepresentation.) It is possible that as a minor child one can be brought to the US by their parents, in an EWI situation...grow up here and accrue 10 years of illegal presence. I don't agree that a child should be punished for the 'sins of the father' but US immigration law does not allow for such a thing.

I recall someone here that was brought over as a child. That is one of the few exceptions that the "had to come" would apply too. I would bet money that this isn't the case for the OP or they would have stated it from the start to prevent the comments.

I kind of like Charles explanation as to how one "had to come".

[jpaula 20]

I am going to ask, again, why we have a waiver forum when questions about waivers are inevitably met with righteous indignation and, worse, misinformation. If you have a forum for waivers on inadmissibility you are going to get questions from people who are ineligible for visas for many reasons, chief among them unlawful presence. There is a legal process for overcoming this and we should be able to give the OP decent--and correct--advice on how to go about this process. If we cannot, this forum is BS and should be closed.

To the OP: There is no bar incurred for the EWI. Rather the EWI means he can not legalize from within the US. It is the unlawful presence for more than one year that incurs a 10 year bar, triggered when he leaves the country. This is a waivable bar. Furthermore, CDJ is a particularly easy Consulate to go through for two reasons. Firstly, it has a very high approval rate for waivers. Secondly, it is currently the only Consulate with a pilot program which means they will adjudicate your waiver at your visa interview. This is huge as it saves what for many Consulates is a very long wait for waiver adjudication. So, your SO should go to the interview with his I-601 in hand. Go to www.immigrate2us.net and research what it takes to put together a decent waiver packet. There is a lot of valuable information there.

Good luck.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I would advise you to stop antagonizing people here...that will only degenerate this thread into a flame war. Ignore those comments that are not to your liking and take the informative posts as your advice.

The fact of the matter is that your husband's entry without inspection (EWI) will be the most important factor at his visa interview. Not so much the illegal presence of 10 years. At the interview, your husband will be denied the visa because of the EWI, and BECAUSE of his 10 year illegal presence in the US, there will be an at least 10 year ban, meaning your husband cannot be the recipient of a US visa for that period of time. It will then be decided if the ban is waiver eligible or not. If it is... YOU, the US Citizen will need to present the circumstances which render you unable to move to your husband's country, i.e. document the hardship. If that is judged to have merit, a visa will be issued.

You have been advised to seek legal counsel....take that as very good advice, and consult with a qualified immigration attorney, that has experience with waivers and with situations such as yours. A competent attorney can give you a better idea of your chances for success given your situation. Good luck.

I posted that... she didn't care....

To the OP: apparently you chose the pissing match. Message from our sponsors: being angry will NOT help you. Not on VJ, and certainly not on juarez - those copfvcus will destroy you if you even try to get a bit pissy. That is their job.

By now, I could have told you how to go about the waiver, point you in the right direction to talk to the right people and make you feel more at peace. But you just had to get hysterical. I guess in your life, it's better to be "right" than to regularize your husband's status...

[MexiGringa 1]

I am going to ask, again, why we have a waiver forum when questions about waivers are inevitably met with righteous indignation and, worse, misinformation. If you have a forum for waivers on inadmissibility you are going to get questions from people who are ineligible for visas for many reasons, chief among them unlawful presence. There is a legal process for overcoming this and we should be able to give the OP decent--and correct--advice on how to go about this process. If we cannot, this forum is BS and should be closed.

To the OP: There is no bar incurred for the EWI. Rather the EWI means he can not legalize from within the US. It is the unlawful presence for more than one year that incurs a 10 year bar, triggered when he leaves the country. This is a waivable bar. Furthermore, CDJ is a particularly easy Consulate to go through for two reasons. Firstly, it has a very high approval rate for waivers. Secondly, it is currently the only Consulate with a pilot program which means they will adjudicate your waiver at your visa interview. This is huge as it saves what for many Consulates is a very long wait for waiver adjudication. So, your SO should go to the interview with his I-601 in hand. Go to www.immigrate2us.net and research what it takes to put together a decent waiver packet. There is a lot of valuable information there.

Good luck.

PRAISE THE LORD!!!!! SOMEBODY READ MY POST!!!! Thank you for your post. Another nice person gave me that website and that was MORE THAN LOADED with helpful information and WONDERFUL people not biased against my situation. All I ever came here for was that. Thank you again

[leith@Ievgeniia 8]

Hello,

I am brand new to this site and don't even know if I am posting correctly!!

Anyhoo, I am the Petitioner on my Mexican husbands behalf. I filed the I-130 in June 2009 and we received his Interview appt on November 27, 2009. We have one way tickets to El Paso leaving the 18th. His Interview is the 23rd. I have been told MANY different things and am soooo CONFUSED. I was told by some that as his Wife and Petetioner that I was required to go and now others have said that I do not. He has been here illegally since 1998 and we have been together since 2006. We have one child together and another on the way. My Husband doesn't feel comfortable traveling alone thru checkpoints and has no idea which papers are which in all our mounds of paperwork. I figured sending him alone would be like sending him to swim with sharks!! Can anyone give me any insight or help?? We are expecting him to have to stay behing in Mexico for up to a year or possibly more since he entered illegally, but does anyone really know from their personal experience? We have been told so many different things and have done everything on our own without a Lawyers help. Like what happens at the Interview? After the Interview? What is the waiver for? Does he need to make an appt for one, or do they tell him that in Juarez? I am just so worried and feel like we are entering the unknown...ANY help would be greatly appreciated..

Thank you

I came to this website and posted this HOPING to connect with other people in SIMILAR situations such as mine. I did NOT expect people to pass judgement and post their opinions about Illegal Mexicans not having a right to be here because they broke the law. I asked for other peoples knowledge, answers from experiences and nothing else. Forgive me for having an attitude towards people who throw stones from glass houses and think their situation is high and mighty because they are doing something in a way that they THINK is the right or legal way. Not one of you knows how or why my Husband came to be in this Country, YOU all assumed that because he was ILLEGAL, that he came here that way. Judging us without knowing all the facts..but it's funny that everyone posting is from Countries where Immigration is COMPLETLY DIFFERENT. I agree laws should not be broken, and if they are there should obviously be consequences. However, I do believe that people should be given second chances and the right to make amends. And people forget that it's our own Immigrations laws and Government that let illegal passage happen every day. And if it were so easy for Mexicans or any others to obtain Visa's so easily and lawfully, don't you think more would have them and not cross illegally? I never came here for a "p1ssing match", but feel I have every right to defend myself and others I know. I came here seeking advice, not assumptions or judgments, but obviously I came to the wrong place. Thank you for those of you who did not judge and offered your opinions and thoughts. I wish you all the best of luck in your situations. And if there are people out there, like other Mexicans that have been thru a similar process, I would love to hear your stories. I was never looking for sympathy, so for one to assume that is ridiculous. Maybe my origional post should be re-read. I asked about the Juarez Interview and Waiver Interview process and if you aren't familiar with those, then I don't see why you are here posting comments. That would be why I'm not in another forum commenting on something I know nothing about.....

you keep useing passing judgement. we are stating laws and experience on why it is so hard to bring somebody here leagly. first of all i have a former employee that was working leagl but he did not keep up with his papers and his wife ran off. he is now in hondurous serving a 10 year ban! for not doing what he had to do. even though he was working leagel and here legal his visa expired. he even got hirt on a consturction job and is on medicade with dissability! so i know first hand what your going to face and what the penility is but i am passing judgement!! i still suggest be prepaird to move next to him for 10 years or look at a country you both can move to and live and work for 10 years.

things are hard now with so many americans upset with this situation, the bands are being inforced. be prepaird and drop the high and middy attidude!!!

my sweety cannot get a simple b2 visa out of ukraine due to people saying longer than travel time!!! we are all facing facts of people braking the law form past.

so if you do not like first hand info and suggestions. i would suggest not to post anymore. sorry but this is facts and real life cases that we all know about. but still i hope you to have good luck and make all right. just have plan b, c, d and even e if you do not get waver or lifetime ban. be prepaird! and you might want to get lawyer involved in this one. yes money but you have a mess on your hands and might be more than self-filing status. Not many suggest lawyers unless messy and love this is very messy.

[TBoneTX 48,087]

he is now in hondurous

This is the first time that I've heard of this country, si man. Is it anywhere near Gwattemella?

he even got hirt on a consturction job

What? Al Hirt is now working "consturction"?

and what the penility is

Yes -- what IS the "penility" -- being sentenced to a penile institution?

the bands are being inforced.

I LOVE a military parade!

drop the high and middy attidude!!!

Si, atti-dude, but it looks as though the altidude already dropped from high to middy.

my sweety cannot get a simple b2 visa out of ukraine due to people saying longer than travel time!!!

Well, then, people should stop repeatedly saying "longer than travel time," "longer than travel time"...

we are all facing facts of people braking the law form past.

What?! People are taking a previous legal (leagle) document and suddenly stopping their cars atop it? How can this be allowed?

i would suggest not to post anymore.

Please, not that! We need to see if we can be even more distracted from understanding future messages that are even more obscured by their quality of delivery than this one is.

love this is very messy

No, I don't love it, but, Love, this is very messy, sigh man. Edited December 12, 2009 by TBoneTX

[MRStee 19]

Hello,

I am brand new to this site and don't even know if I am posting correctly!!

Anyhoo, I am the Petitioner on my Mexican husbands behalf. I filed the I-130 in June 2009 and we received his Interview appt on November 27, 2009. We have one way tickets to El Paso leaving the 18th. His Interview is the 23rd. I have been told MANY different things and am soooo CONFUSED. I was told by some that as his Wife and Petetioner that I was required to go and now others have said that I do not. He has been here illegally since 1998 and we have been together since 2006. We have one child together and another on the way. My Husband doesn't feel comfortable traveling alone thru checkpoints and has no idea which papers are which in all our mounds of paperwork. I figured sending him alone would be like sending him to swim with sharks!! Can anyone give me any insight or help?? We are expecting him to have to stay behing in Mexico for up to a year or possibly more since he entered illegally, but does anyone really know from their personal experience? We have been told so many different things and have done everything on our own without a Lawyers help. Like what happens at the Interview? After the Interview? What is the waiver for? Does he need to make an appt for one, or do they tell him that in Juarez? I am just so worried and feel like we are entering the unknown...ANY help would be greatly appreciated..

Thank you

I came to this website and posted this HOPING to connect with other people in SIMILAR situations such as mine. I did NOT expect people to pass judgement and post their opinions about Illegal Mexicans not having a right to be here because they broke the law. I asked for other peoples knowledge, answers from experiences and nothing else. Forgive me for having an attitude towards people who throw stones from glass houses and think their situation is high and mighty because they are doing something in a way that they THINK is the right or legal way. Not one of you knows how or why my Husband came to be in this Country, YOU all assumed that because he was ILLEGAL, that he came here that way. Judging us without knowing all the facts..but it's funny that everyone posting is from Countries where Immigration is COMPLETLY DIFFERENT. I agree laws should not be broken, and if they are there should obviously be consequences. However, I do believe that people should be given second chances and the right to make amends. And people forget that it's our own Immigrations laws and Government that let illegal passage happen every day. And if it were so easy for Mexicans or any others to obtain Visa's so easily and lawfully, don't you think more would have them and not cross illegally? I never came here for a "p1ssing match", but feel I have every right to defend myself and others I know. I came here seeking advice, not assumptions or judgments, but obviously I came to the wrong place. Thank you for those of you who did not judge and offered your opinions and thoughts. I wish you all the best of luck in your situations. And if there are people out there, like other Mexicans that have been thru a similar process, I would love to hear your stories. I was never looking for sympathy, so for one to assume that is ridiculous. Maybe my origional post should be re-read. I asked about the Juarez Interview and Waiver Interview process and if you aren't familiar with those, then I don't see why you are here posting comments. That would be why I'm not in another forum commenting on something I know nothing about.....

Just take it easy sis, maybe its good to walk away from VJ a little bit and come back to it. I wish you the best in your endeavors..Truly... God Bless!