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I am new in VJ so I really dont know how does every thing works here, I hope im doing good! Back to the subject...I always had a turist visa since I was 4 years old. On 2000 I arrived to the US on my turist visa and applied for 1 year extention, it was granted during that year I applied for political asylum and it was never granted or denied, I was in this process for 4 years.

I married my bf, he was a permanent resident and because he was not a US citizen my lawyer said I had to go back to my country (Colombia) and wait until he was a citizen and then come back with a spouse visa. So I did volutatary departure, mean while I was still married and with my new process....My husband and I got divorce. After all this time I have been living in Colombia and now I would love to visit my family in Connecticut, I applied for a turist visa in Bogota embassy and it was denied. Two days ago I called a lawyer and explained to him my situation and he said I had to file a waiver because if my political asylum was never denied or granted and this was considered an overstay due to the fact that I never had an immigration status. What do you gusy think? and what is the exact form I have to file? I went to the USCIS page and there are 2 kinds of waivers, I dont know which one is. What do you guys think about all this? Thank you so much for the help and time!! +)

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I am new in VJ so I really dont know how does every thing works here, I hope im doing good! Back to the subject...I always had a turist visa since I was 4 years old. On 2000 I arrived to the US on my turist visa and applied for 1 year extention, it was granted during that year I applied for political asylum and it was never granted or denied, I was in this process for 4 years.

I married my bf, he was a permanent resident and because he was not a US citizen my lawyer said I had to go back to my country (Colombia) and wait until he was a citizen and then come back with a spouse visa. So I did volutatary departure, mean while I was still married and with my new process....My husband and I got divorce. After all this time I have been living in Colombia and now I would love to visit my family in Connecticut, I applied for a turist visa in Bogota embassy and it was denied. Two days ago I called a lawyer and explained to him my situation and he said I had to file a waiver because if my political asylum was never denied or granted and this was considered an overstay due to the fact that I never had an immigration status. What do you gusy think? and what is the exact form I have to file? I went to the USCIS page and there are 2 kinds of waivers, I dont know which one is. What do you guys think about all this? Thank you so much for the help and time!! +)

if you were in proceedings which you imply be indicating you have a "voluntary departure" ..then you have a 10 year bar.

Not sure what happened with the Asylum Application but if you overstayed for over a year which you did and did not gain lawful status while you

were here, then you will have a 10 year bar.

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http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/354540-overstay-turist-visa/

You got some good advice here, especially in regards to your asylum case

Good luck