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The Most Disgusting Case I've Ever Worked in US Immigration?
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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing what in my opinion is the most disgusting case I've ever worked in US immigration. I had a case and it's still ongoing - I'm going to redact as much as I possibly can, I'll keep this as absolutely sterilized as possible - basically just explain the fact pattern - so basically we filed the case. We knew that there was a ground of inadmissibility involved and as usual we filed and as you should do, this was disclosed to the Consular Officer doing the adjudication of the application.
It was denied which is standard procedure. It was sent back to USCIS, and a waiver was applied for in the meantime. So okay, we know it's being denied; we see that you're denying the petition; we file for a waiver with USCIS; that's the procedure. Meanwhile in the interim, they just do their own thing. Waiver gets filed, receipt notice issued on the waiver; USCIS has acknowledged their receipt of the waiver and then they go ahead, and they revoke the petition. Letter gets sent, "hey, you are revoking a petition on something that there is a pending waiver on." Ignore it! Get the response to the waiver petition and the response is it's denied because we've revoked the petition. This is the most Kafkaesque thing I've ever seen. The petition gets filed; it gets a notice that denial should be issued, - yes, fine - a request for a waiver of the findings were filed, - yes fine, and then they say well we're revoking the petition, but a waiver has been requested, you haven't adjudicated the waiver but you're revoking it. You go ahead and revoke it and then you say we're not approving the waiver because we revoked the petition. Basically the answer from USCIS is, "no because we said so", but more importantly they never adjudicated the waiver. The thing that the client paid for, i.e. adjudication of the waiver, was not forthcoming and the response is "because we say so." In Thai they say, "proh wa, proh wa" - "because, because", it's because I say so; it's nonsense. This is tyrannical, neo-Soviet just nonsense.
I can't believe that this is the state of play in the institution of our Immigration system frankly, I really can't believe it. I mean, it's the hardest thing in the world for me to talk to clients right now and talk to them about our Immigration System and say that "well this is the way you should do it because" - I mean if this is the way people are going to be treated this is just, this is an outrage, it's just awful. I mean the border is wide open and this is what you do to people that want to go through the system correctly? I don't know what to say. It's the most disgusting case I've ever seen.