i-130 notice of approval, interview pending and baby on the way.

[MakeItRight!]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by mtladi:
Thank you MakeItRight! Your posts have definitely helped me feel better. It's not the end of the tunnel and things can get sorted out in time. Unfortunately, our plans never come out as we wish they did... but nothing is impossible. And hopefully laws CAN change. It seems like the debate's been going on forever though. But no war can last 100 years </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[mtladi]

Thank you MakeItRight! Your posts have definitely helped me feel better. It's not the end of the tunnel and things can get sorted out in time. Unfortunately, our plans never come out as we wish they did... but nothing is impossible. And hopefully laws CAN change. It seems like the debate's been going on forever though. But no war can last 100 years

[mtladi]

Thank davdah! I think I have a clearer picture of what happened. Just have to wonder now why the stamp on my passport... The officer did mention there was no formal sanction of time, and that the issuance of a next visa would depend of the consular agent. I'm going to be truthful... and I'm hopeful the truth will set us free

But like MakeItRight said... I do have to worry about my hubby, my baby and my health, we can always try again later.

[MakeItRight!]

She Will Be Ok In A Few Years!!!!
Anything Now For Her doesn't Even Exist n The here and now!!! A Few Years Of Learning And Change And She Will Be Ok!!!

[olalala]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">What would be grounds for the INS to deny entry to me? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

lying under oath! There's possibility
you'll get denied on your interview.

[MakeItRight!]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by davdah:
There is one catch. Your overstay time while under 18 doesn't count. From your 18th birthday forward it will.

This won't come up until you go in for the interview. At that time you will be questioned and it would be best to tell the truth. They already know which is why you received the stamp you did. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[MakeItRight!]

MtLadi,

Put Your Effort And life Into Your BABY!!!

Rules are forever Changing! Try Again In a Few Years! .

[speed_025]

so you overstayed your visa from 1993 - 1997
this prolly the reason for the 10 year barr
since you said you denied it ,it got worser.

Have you consulted a lawyer?

[mtladi]

I am aware of that.

[speed_025]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">mtladi, did you mean you were in the US under tourist visa for straight 4 years??? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">As a child and under my parents' will if that counts. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

There's no tourist visa that allow you to stay for four straight years.

[mtladi]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">mtladi, did you mean you were in the US under tourist visa for straight 4 years??? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

As a child and under my parents' will if that counts.

[mtladi]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by davdah:
You will be banned for 10 years for the more than one year overstay. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
I didn't overstay one year... I actually didn't even overstay one day. I left on June 12, my permit expired on the 13th. Nowhere in the forms I got does it meantion a ban or a sanction of time. Could it be possible for them to give me one even though it wasn't mentioned before?

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">When you applied for the drivers license was the I-94 valid? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
It was valid, it was just nicely typed by the agency that issued the plane tickets and the DMV worker thought it was too fancy to be valid. That's why he said that he called the INS.

What kind of things count as extreme hardship? My husband setup a business shortly before he met me, and while he can monitor it from far away it would definitely help it economically if we were up there. He doesn't want to live far away from me and neither do I... so being away from each other is not an option. At least not to us.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> BTW, the drivers license is more or less considered a false ID since you procured it under the fraudulent pretense of being a resident. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I got the drivers license because I was driving a lot in Atlanta and my Mexican drivers license was about to expire. I didn't get it until a month before I left and never used it with purposes other than legally driving. Never claimed anything I wasn't.

[speed_025]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">we lived in the States from 1993 to 1997... since I was 10 until I was 14... also on a tourist visa). </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

mtladi, did you mean you were in the US under tourist visa for straight 4 years???

[MakeItRight!]

OMG!!! Please Dear LORD, Don't Let It Be Another Baby Thing????

Both Of You Better Make That Baby #1!!!! Or I Will Hunt You Down!!!!

That Baby Just Might Be The President Of The Entire World One Day???? The Savor!!!! Make It So!!!! With Your Contributions As Mom and Dad!!!!

[OldE]

I googled for a minute and found this, among other results:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">

Immigrants
According to INA §212(a)(7)(A)(i), any immigrant who, at the time of application for admission:

who is not in possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa, reentry permit, border crossing identification card, or other valid entry document required by the Immigration and Nationality Act, and a valid unexpired passport, or other suitable travel document, or document of identity and nationality if such document is required under the INS regulations, or whose visa has been issued without compliance with the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, is excludable.

A waiver is available under INA §212(k) where the Attorney General is satisfied that the exclusion was not known to, and could not have been ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence by, the immigrant before the time of departure of the vessel or aircraft from the last port outside the United States and outside foreign contiguous territory or, in the case of an immigrant coming from foreign contiguous territory, before the time of the immigrant's application for admission.

Nonimmigrants

Under INA â"¢–212(a)(7)((i), any nonimmigrant who:

is not in possession of a passport valid for at least six months from the date of expiration of the initial period of the alien's admission or contemplated initial period of stay authorizing the alien to return to the country from which the alien came or to proceed to some other country during such period; or is not in possession of a valid nonimmigrant visa or border crossing identification card at the time of application for admission is excludable.

A general waiver is authorized under INA â"¢–212(d)(4):

on the basis of unforeseen emergency in an individual case;

on the basis of reciprocity with respect to nationals of foreign contiguous territory or of adjacent islands and residents thereof having common nationality with such nationals (Canadian citizens and landed immigrants of Canada having British commonwealth citizenship are therefore exempt from visa and passport requirements except in the case of K-1 and E-1/E2 nonimmigrant visas); or

in the case of aliens proceeding in immediate and continuous transit through the United States pursuant to landing agreement contracts entered into by common carriers.
A waiver is also authorized for visitors to Guam and certain nationals entering as visitors under the Visa Waiver Pilot Program. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>