What's happening with individuals on authorized stay getting detained/arrested at USCIS during their AOS interview? [merged threads]

[Dashinka 26,317]

6 hours ago, Nagpetisyon said:

Unconfirmed reports claim USCIS office employees coordinate with ICE on-site for arrests during routine immigration interviews.
This gets more attention following a recent series of apprehensions in San Diego during Green Card interviews.

A "leaked memo" details possible practices at interviews

I wonder about the veracity of this "LinkedIn" post especially when I read number 4.  How many USCIS interviews last more than 30 minutes unless there is a real anomaly?

[speedster 44]

https://www.newsweek.com/wife-detained-green-card-interview-ice-san-diego-11176819

 

This time it's someone with TPS that applied with a I-485 before their status was up, with authorized stay.

 

Someone tell me where's the wrong here. No one can tell me how this doesn't disprove the chatter people were saying about the K1s even those who filed within the 90 days.

[speedster 44]

14 hours ago, Dashinka said:

I wonder about the veracity of this "LinkedIn" post especially when I read number 4.  How many USCIS interviews last more than 30 minutes unless there is a real anomaly?

 

Chatter as well with several lawyer groups with AILA saying this was a true document. USCIS interviews could easily be more than 30 min.

[Boiler 48,310]

1 hour ago, speedster said:

https://www.newsweek.com/wife-detained-green-card-interview-ice-san-diego-11176819

 

This time it's someone with TPS that applied with a I-485 before their status was up, with authorized stay.

 

Someone tell me where's the wrong here. No one can tell me how this doesn't disprove the chatter people were saying about the K1s even those who filed within the 90 days.

 

According to that link she was paroled in. Unclear if Husband is a USC.

 

I know there is an issue around wheter Parole counts as being inpected for adjustment purposes.

 

Very rare for an I 130 to result in an interview, I have not seen enough of them to comment. Most I 485 would be around 30 minutes. I have seen a few take a couple of hours but they have had an underlying reason.

 

[Nagpetisyon 4]

People looking at these incidents and saying, "cannot be happening, nothing like this has occurred in past USCIS customs" need to remember the parent organization of USCIS has a modified mission this year (deportation), and USCIS could and will change habits to help the apprehension numbers ( low hanging fruit). Just because typical USCIS interviews did not last more than 30 minutes in the past doesn't mean interviewers now may be probing longer and more deeply ( to their credit ) or stretching out the interview until ICE can arrive outside the door.

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[Sam Burns 224]

On 11/24/2025 at 5:35 PM, sompsyth said:

Based on a few Reddit posts and anecdotal experiences from a few in the comment section that I have read so far, these people came here legally and the AOS petition was timely filed before the visa expiry, they are in an authorized stay (without legal status) and are getting detained at USCIS during their interview. 

 

There are several reports about this in the local news media from San Diego and San Fransisco. 

 

Any thoughts on this? So are we all going to agree that it was never about "legal immigration"?

For sure, only the deluded would believe if it was ever about illegality