We didn’t disclose dui in the fiancé petition

[PaulinaZ 44]

Hi everyone!

Im very concerned, so my fiancé (US  citizen-petitioner) got a DUI couple of years ago. When we read petition through we thought that we need to disclose it once there is 3 times or more driving under influence.  We sent our petition in December and we are waiting for our NOA2. I saw some posts on Facebook groups about that and some people got a RFE for that and a some got denied during embassy stage. This is really stressing me out, we didn’t mean to hide it especially that our lawyer told him that one DUI is nothing and he never asked about court documents or some police paperwork. I’m very concerned. Please I need advice. It was a couple of years ago, he went through probation and learned his lesson

[Just Paul 4,591]

Depends on what the answer to question 4a would be.  It should come up on the USCIS background check and they may issue a RFE or just kick refuse the entire petition.

 

It is the petitioner's obligation to make sure the petition that he is signing is true and correct.  

 

You might need a better immigration attorney.

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[PaulinaZ 44]

Question to people who didn’t disclose DUI in their petition. Some of you probably saw my previous post about DUI, so we didn’t disclose my fiancé’s ( US citizen) DUI. Our lawyer put NO so we went straight with NO.  It’s not okay and we are very stressed. Is there something we can do about that at that point? Send them the page of petition with the questionnaire about criminal story and court documents? 
Are there some people who got denied for something like that? I saw some stories and we are really freaked out. Our lawyer didn’t help at all.. 

it was one time DUI, I’m beneficiary and I’m aware of that 

[NoMansLand2020 298]

11 minutes ago, PaulinaZ said:

Question to people who didn’t disclose DUI in their petition. Some of you probably saw my previous post about DUI, so we didn’t disclose my fiancé’s ( US citizen) DUI. Our lawyer put NO so we went straight with NO.  It’s not okay and we are very stressed. Is there something we can do about that at that point? Send them the page of petition with the questionnaire about criminal story and court documents? 
Are there some people who got denied for something like that? I saw some stories and we are really freaked out. Our lawyer didn’t help at all.. 

it was one time DUI, I’m beneficiary and I’m aware of that 

Question 4a on page 9 asks:

 

Have you ever been arrested, cited, charged, indicted, 
convicted, fined, or imprisoned for breaking or violating 
any law or ordinance in any country, excluding traffic 
violations (unless a traffic violation was alcohol- or drug-
related or involved a fine of $500 or more)? 

 

I believe a DUI or DWI is considered a traffic violation.  

 

So it should probably have been disclosed here. 

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