sbaksh said:
I was wondering if hiring a lawyer to write a letter will work.
thanks!
I think that is not a bad idea.
My husband went for his interview this Wednesday. Our cases and problems are very different, but my husband was sent home after the interview. The officier told him she has no issue with our relationship, nor with him, except for for charges that showed up on his FBI record, which she is not sure( she doesn't know the law) are making him inadmissible or not. Basically that she would need to check with her superior to see what the law is and then would make a decision.
Not to go into more details, but all this to say, the moment my husband finished he called me up and I called up the lawyer, who sent the embassy the day after a letter telling them that he is NOT inadmissible, and that if she were to go to court with this case she knows she would win as the law is clear on such case and a judge who knows the law better, would determine that an erroneous decision had been made by the agent, as she has dealt with many such cases and rarely seen it as a problem. The few times it was a problem it was determined in appeal that the agent had made a mistake.
She had also written a submission letter in our initial submission that reffered to this, stating that he was not inadmissible.
All this to say that I honestly think that at this point, here intervention might be what is going to keep that agent, or supervisor from making a mistake. Her words were carefully chosen and shows that she knows what she is talking about, and it is going to force them to handle this even more carefully as they know that if they do refuse him, she will take it to court. Also all these correspondence are going to become evidences, in the case it does end up in court. She will be able to show that twice she warned the embassy NOT to refuse him based on that.
Based on my experience, I would say now that with things getting a little complicated for us, having her representing us and intervening like this can only be positive. We could have never had the impact that she has, and I now see how the work of a lawyer can make a difference, when things complicate, even if it is possible to go through all this process without one for most cases. One never knows. In our case we knew that our case was a little more complicated, but yours is a perfect example of a straight forward case that suddenly becomes "complicated".
On an other note, over the last year we have tried to contact the embassy on various occasions, and never got answers. We started doing so when the average time had passed, so they should have answered, but they never did. I went to my deputy last month and he tried as well twice, and he still got no answer. He was finally able to get information from a call center deputies have access to where they can get some information on the status of the case. When he did so we learn an interview had been request two weeks prior. Three days later we got the actual letter with date and all. I understand your deputy is not helping. As someone suggested maybe you could approach an other deputy. My cousins works in that field and she suggest getting help from the deputy of the district she lives in if mine failed to help.
My deputy is from the NPD, and I can tell you that I didn't need to say much to convince him to help. Basically they blame it all on the conservatives, and they will do anything to show you that they are not like them and that they actually care !
good luck !
