Attorney Famuyide Wins Green Card for an Alien With A Criminal Record
Like many previous years, in the year 2013, Attorney Famuyide has rescued many immigrants from the shackles of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency and helped to bring relief and comfort to many hopeless immigrants that have very difficult and bad cases. The latest case was of a woman who had multiple complicated legal issues, but to the amazement of the jubilating family members, Attorney Famuyide was able to unknot all the issues one by one and succeeded to winning the case.
It all started when the woman was brought to the
Before, this young woman who was in the late 20s turned 21, her parents made several efforts to obtain legal status for themselves while including her in the applications.
In late 1990s, one of the parents attempted to obtain immigration status using one of the special routes to legal status. This young woman was included in the application. The case was initially approved, and all the family members obtained employment authorization and advance parole to travel abroad. They all traveled abroad with the advance parole, even this woman. The underlying case at that time was eventually denied and the entire family stayed in illegal status. The advance parole and the denial of the underlying case brought about two major legal issues for this woman.
At some point, her mother obtained status through another child and her father too obtained status through another
Prior to when the case was brought to Attorney Famuyide, there were multiple issues with dire immigration consequences. The chief of the issues was the grand larceny conviction followed by the fact that she was over the age of 21 and have overstayed her visa in the
At the time, Attorney Famuyide accepted the case, he itemized about four legal hurdles to cross before this woman could obtain permanent resident status in the
Luckily, at the time of filing the application for adjustment of status, there was a decision issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals called In the Matter of Manohar Rao ARRABALLY, Respondent and Matter of Sarala YERRABELLY, Respondent which was decided on
The remaining major issues were whether or not the old approval could be used to grandfather the current petition, when the old approval was eventually revoked and also the grand larceny criminal conviction issue.
The general rule regarding adjustment of status in the
In this case, Attorney Famuyide invoked a U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services interoffice memorandum dated
According to the March 9, 2005 Memo, the USCIS stated ““if an alien demonstrates that a spouse or child relationship existed at the time a qualifying petition or application was properly filed on or before April 30, 2001, a principal alien’s spouse or child is a grandfathered alien regardless of any subsequent changes in the relationship with principal alien. This means that a spouse or child remains grandfathered even after losing the status of spouse or child, such as by divorce or the child becoming 21years of age. Such spouse or child who is grandfathered may seek to adjust status under Section 245(i) on any proper basis, if so qualified.” Attorney Famuyide was successful on this issue.
The last of the issues was the grand larceny conviction, Attorney Famuyide brought to bear the immigration definition of petty offense. He cited applicable laws to exonerate this alien from being ruled inadmissible because of criminal conviction. At the interview, the USCIS Officer agreed with Attorney Famuyide on the resolution of all these issues. The case was approved and the alien permanent resident alien card was issued. Another success story and mission accomplished.
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