Clearwater, FL Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

Sounds like someone made lots of decisions for you and may have created some real problems with your case ever being resolved. Best advice is to find a qualified and knowledgeable immigration attorney who can review what has been done, explain it to you and figure out whether there are an long term or permanent problems created as a result of what someone decided to do to "help" you. Your case has seen some difficulties and rather than letting someone else who hasn't a clue play with your future, do yourself a favor and find someone who understand the law and can explain everything to you. Do not settle for an unqualified legal service provider and I would highly recommend a Board Certified Immigration and Nationality Law attorney. These folks are qualified to call themselves experts and can really help you where others just don't get it. Find someone good and pay the fee for a real consultation and get a second opinion if you have any doubts.

Your husband has made an awful mess of the situation. Appears to me that he is now subject to what is commonly referred to as the "permanent bar" described at ?212(a)(9)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. What does this mean? A foreign national who has accrued a period of one year or more of "unlawful presence" in the US will be barred for ten years from returning. There is a "waiver" available to get around this problem if the foreign national can establish that it would be an "extreme hardship" to his spouse or parent (who is a resident or citizen) if he is not permitted to return. However, if that same person then attempts to come to the US illegally the foreign national is now barred for ten years and cannot file a request to have that bar "waived" until he has remained outside of the US for ten years. So the first bar permits the foreign national to apply to have the bar waived at any time before the expiration of the ten year penalty. The second bar requires that the individual reside outside of the US for ten years before being able to file the waiver application to return. There are few penalties under US immigration law which are much worse or much harsher than this one. The purpose here is to deter people from frequent violations of the immigration laws and the conduct n which your husband engaged is impossible to fix without waiting an extended period of time to fix it. I completely understand the difficulties which are apparent when situations such as these create separated families. But we are a nation of laws and a nation with a border. When those laws are violated and the border not respected, the penalties which can be imposed are very harsh. Be careful out there, attorneys and others will tell you that they can help when they can't. I encourage you to seek the advice of a competent and knowledgeable attorney. Just make sure that you are dealing with someone who is licensed and someone who has the qualifications to provide you the advice that you need. Good luck.

I don't know what you mean by CIMT list.  Immigration has a database that shows criminal records for foreigners.  There is no such thing as a CIMT list.  If the offenses in question qualify as crimes involving moral turpitude (and it it is not obvious that they do), the only way to address them is to challenge them directly.  For example, if your husband was convicted (and not merely arrested) for these offenses, then the conviction would need to be overturned before the immigration database could be updated.