Any feed back addressing my significant other would be greatly appreciated.
In May (24) of last year my friend went to U.S. Embassy in Barbados. He had received notification from them that he should go there to sort out his status... to acquire a green card which was filed for him by his father. I believe in 1999, when he was 17. He's is 22 (turned 22 in October last year '04). Shortly thereafter, while he was in New York, he recieved a letter from the US. immigration stating that his status was pending, and that he should not leave the U.S. Within the course of those years he was "living in NY", he travelled back to our homeland (maybe twice)( For family purposes). He was able to return with no problems what so ever. He had originally travelled to the U.S on an indefinite VISA (i think that's what it's called when it's for such a long period). (which expired on July 11th '04)
Sadly enough, it turns out that when he went to B'dos he never returned. He had everything that was necessary(paper work) and his medical was excellent and he also has no criminal background whatsoever.. At the last moment the official who had his case asks him" why he had overstayed on his visa". My friend stated that he hadn't and that he had a letter stating that he should not travel out of the US. (I TAKE IT TO MEAN NOT FOR A SPECIFIED PERIOD OF TIME). He was denied the green card. And up to this day he is still in our homeland.
Before he left b'dos they advised him (and his father) to have a waiver filled out which he did ( please note his father did not travel with him to B'dos). A couple of the components for the final documents they needed to fix the situation were not immediately available because he's father wasn't tactful enough to send them immediately. So one peice of the nec. document was sent before the other. Nonetheless, both were eventually sent. I would say by September of last year( he's interview date was on the 2nd of June). My friend was told that the necessary documents had
to be fowarded to Santo Domingo and that he would hear from them in 6 months.
In the course of the time he's been in our homeland (another cbean island) the person who wad dealing wiuth his case had told him to send his passport to B'dos . which he did.. it costed alot of money because he was told to send it as soon as possible. Upon the receipt of his passport the employee told him that everything would have been sorted out and that he would be back in NY in a matter of days.This incident occurred, I would say about 3 weeks after his interview date (June 2). They kept on giving him a run around etc. about not having this and that document. At one point they even told him that he didn't pay for the waiver ($360 U.S) (the guy dealing with his case had even requested him to have the money forwarded to B'dos) WHICH HE DID, he had the receipts of everything he had paid for in his hands. Anyway he sent them copies of the reciepts/ and everything they supposedly forgot he had taken care of in B'dos. After that, it was a different story, they told im s/thing else that he was missing , which he indeed had and that the embassy had had possession of it. In the peroid of time that he has been down there he would occassionally call to fid out what was going on. One time he would talk to a woman the next he would talk to the man who was dealing with his case. At certain points in time they would give him the impression that he wasn't / shouldn't be calling BOTHERING THEM.
He recently called them, about 2 weeks ago (he's father has been periodically calling to) and they told him that the they have the 1st reply from the 1st document that was sent and that by the end of the 1st week in Feb he should hear from them. My question is... through my brief explanation of the situation ... was it handled appropriately. And does anyone think that the situation is somewhat fishy (like I do) or that someone is playing around or that any other form of misappropriation is going on. Also, if anyone has known anyone in a similar situation please feel free to provide some suggestions on how the situation can be speed through ( or should we just wait like sitting ducks because that's all we can do). I would appreciate any constructive and knowledgable feed back. Thank you.

Most people from those countries are pot addicts so you are better off.

Ignore that insensitive reponse from that person. Unfortunately its a little hard to understand your story so i can't really say anything. To wait 5 years is a long time and then to get denied. Is he appealing? The situation doesn't necessarily have to be fishy, it could be confusing, maybe some papers were misfiled or maybe he traveled without advance parole. I wonder if its possible to file again... maybe somebody else knows? Is his fathe a USC? In anycase, I hope things work out for you all.

We need more specific information on all that he got and filled out.

merely stating "this document and that document" really doesn't help much.

I'm not sure where he steered awry of the system. Usually you wait in your country. You get GC approved. you go to embassy to get background check and visa. Go to US, get gc stamp and live happily ever after. Did he go to the us and overstay his tourist visa or something?

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