Pace, FL Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

Dependent upon the type of work visa that you have, you may still be able to renew it. If it is a work visa in a nonimmigrant category and the maximum time period has not been exhausted, your employer may file an extension petition and you would likely have to leave the U. S. to interview for the visa at the American consulate or Embassy in your home country. If the work visa is an employment authorization card (EAD), you may be able to renew it if the principal application (usually I-485) is still valid. I note that you would not be allowed to work during the time that the EAD extension application is pending. Deportation is usually not a concern unless you already under proceedings. Due to the limitations of the Lawyers.com Forums, Alan Lee, Esq.'s (the "Firm") participation in responding to questions posted herein does not constitute legal advice, nor legal representation of the person or entity posting a question. No Attorney/Client relationship is or shall be construed to be created hereby. The information provided herein by the Firm is general, and requires that the poster obtain specific legal advice from an attorney. The poster shall not rely upon the information provided herein as legal advice nor as the basis for making any decisions of legal consequence.

If you are already the age of consent at 18, there does not appear to be anything that your mother can do to stop the marriage legally. Of course, she can threaten to report your boyfriend to ICE, but he would not be a high priority unless he has other unfavorable factors since there are approximately 11,000,000 undocumented individuals in this country. Due to the limitations of the Lawyers.com Forums, Alan Lee, Esq.'s (the "Firm") participation in responding to questions posted herein does not constitute legal advice, nor legal representation of the person or entity posting a question. No Attorney/Client relationship is or shall be construed to be created hereby. The information provided herein by the Firm is general, and requires that the poster obtain specific legal advice from an attorney. The poster shall not rely upon the information provided herein as legal advice nor as the basis for making any decisions of legal consequence.  

Answer is that any arrest must always be disclosed to the immigration authorities forever. Even if you can expunge or seal the record via state law, the fact of arrest must always be disclosed in any paperwork dealing with the immigration authorities. Keep in mind that the immigration authorities often times assign different consequences to the same incident which the state law may permit you to not disclose. A big mistake that foreign nationals often make is that because their case was sealed or expunged, they believe that they are not required to admit its existence when applying for immigration benefits such as permanent residency or naturalization. This not correct. Always consult with a competent and licensed attorney if any of these issues arise and before you fail to disclose something that you should have disclosed. Any arrest in the period preceding the date of the submission of an application for naturalization (Form N-400) can result in adverse consequences on the issue of whether the applicant has established that she is a person of "good moral character" (GMC) consistent with US immigration law. Increasingly, we have been seeing many more denials of these types of applications - where there is a minor brush with the law during the period for which GMC must be established. Again, the best advice is to speak to someone who knows and can advise you before you make a decision to accept a plea. While the plea may not render you subject to deportation from the US it could result in the denial of an application for naturalization and could also cause trouble when you are traveling in and out of the US.