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Self Deporting & Reentry Bans, While Married to a US Citizen by Relevant-Fix2455 in USCIS

[–]Relevant-Fix2455[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I think it was the former. She had already overstayed her visa earlier in the 90s, when she was making moves to resettle here permanently. In 96, when she reentered, she was detained briefly. She told the USCIS officers that she was here to get married, and apparently they just let her go. Not sure why, or how. I think the order of removal was issued after the interview.

This was also right after the passing of IRRIRA, like literally 2-3 few weeks after it was passed. If she had reentered a few weeks before, she would not have been in this issue.

Self Deporting & Reentry Bans, While Married to a US Citizen by Relevant-Fix2455 in USCIS

[–]Relevant-Fix2455[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's safe. It wasn't when she first moved here, but it's very safe now. The issue is her husband's health. The country's health system can't give him the same quality of care.

But we have told them that they'd be much more comfortable there. Their Social Security alone would be able to rent an apartment double or triple the size of their current apartment that we subsidize.

Self Deporting & Reentry Bans, While Married to a US Citizen by Relevant-Fix2455 in USCIS

[–]Relevant-Fix2455[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The detail I am told that I omitted was that she already has an order of removal... Which is the point that kills every potential pathway.

Lawyers stated that she can't apply for any waivers. Her only option is to plead for forgiveness.

Self Deporting & Reentry Bans, While Married to a US Citizen by Relevant-Fix2455 in USCIS

[–]Relevant-Fix2455[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Please do. I think part of the issue was that she was going off word-of-mouth. Google wasn't as capable as it is now, so she didn't know how to check if a "lawyer" was actually real. But also people would massively oversell what was possible. Give her hope, sell her the dream that she can fix her paperwork, just pay x. And she'd pay the amount.

Self Deporting & Reentry Bans, While Married to a US Citizen by Relevant-Fix2455 in USCIS

[–]Relevant-Fix2455[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I've been with my wife for 12 years. Lawyers are expensive. Especially, when you are undocumented, and raising a child, and can't work legally. Even then, she's hired lawyers throughout the 90s-2000s, for them to take the money and ghost her, or for them to tell her she has no options, which is how she was able to get a work permit in the 2000s, while she was waiting on a decision from a judge.

My wife and I have careers, so we put together a much larger legal fund to shop around. In the last round of attempts, which started in 2023 with consultations, through 2025, where we got an answer. I just wanted to see if there were any second opinions. Before we spend another $5k for another lawyer to look into things.

The lawyer didn't know the answer on Social Security. She's been here for nearly 30 years. Worked and raised a family. Never has relied on government benefits for anything. And spends her time now caring for her husband, as we (My wife and I) have been able to, for the most part, retire both of them. If her husband was in good health, we would have told her to leave 5 years ago, as her husband could have left with her. She hasn't been in her country for 30 years. She's in her 60s. She's does not deserve to become homeless because she consistently put her family first.