My wife is from Central America. I am an American citizen. My wife was ordered deported by an Immigration Judge in Newark, New Jersey, in 1999. I had been told by many attorneys that I had consulted with, that because the Immigration Court had properly served my wife with notice of the next scheduled hearing, it would be mpossible for the Immigration Judge in Newark, New Jersey, to reopen her removal proceedings. In 2006, I was reviewing Appealworks® web site and was encouraged after talking to one of the attorneys. I was concerned because their offices are in California and I was thousands of miles away in New Jersey, but after talking to the attorney for considerable time without ever mentioning money, or feeling pressured to hire him, we soon realized that he was sincerely motivated to help us achieve our individual goal. We were assigned an attorney who prepared the motion to reopen and all of the documents by telephone, fax and email. After several weeks, he completed and filed the motion with the Immigration Court in Newark, New Jersey. The Immigration Judge actually denied my wife's motion to reopen shortly thereafter but the Board of Immigration Appeals then reversed his decision on appeal. Today, I can state that my wife is a permanent resident alien thanks to the thorough legal representation my wife and I received from the attorney for Appealworks®.
M.R. & W.E., in Newark, New Jersey.
| In 2007, my husband and I attended an appointment at the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez in connection with his application for an immigrant visa based on his marriage to me, a citizen of the United States. Little did we know (despite the fact that we had a local attorney to prepare all of our documents) that my husband would not be allowed to come back with me because he had been present in the US without permission for more than one year. I was forced to come back to our home in Houston without him and was faced with the reality, among other things, that we would lose all of our assets because I could never meet our joint expenses without his income. A few days later, my husband was "paroled" into the US because he had witnessed a crime committed against federal agents, and was a material witness to the crime. I visited numerous attorneys in Houston and asked if they could help us, but all of them told me that there was nothing they could do after the Consul of the US had denied his visa. When I contacted Appealworks®, I spoke to an attorney who after listening to all of the facts explained to me that my husband could obtain his permanent residence in Houston and despite all that had transpired. Today, he is a permanent resident alien when his application for adjustment of status was granted by the Citizenship and Immigration Services in Houston Texas.
N.F. & S.F., Houston, Texas
| My husband is a native of Colombia, who was deported in absentia by an Immigration Judge in Los Angeles in 1994. I am a citizen of the United States and I wanted to help him obtain his permanent residence status. However, because he was ordered deported in 1994, we hired an immigration attorney in Los Angeles in 2001 to help us obtain reopening. The attorney filed a motion to reopen but the motion was denied because the Immigration Judge found that my husband had been "properly" served with the notice to appear in court and had failed to explain satisfactorily why he did not appear. We consulted other immigration attorneys and all of them told us that my husband could not get his case reopened now not only because he had been properly served with the notice of the hearing but specially so because he had already filed a motion to reopen and had been denied. Before filing our second motion to reopen with the assistance of Appealworks® in 2007, we had also contacted a certified specialist in immigration law from Florida, who wrote to my husband that he was ineligible for adjustment of status and that he could not reopen his case because of the same reasons. In 2007, the attorney from Appealworks® filed a very thorough motion to reopen containing sufficient explanations to why he did not attend to the hearing on the first time, and why the first motion to reopen was deficient. The Immigration Judge in Los Angeles granted my husband's motion to reopen and we were allowed to pursue the adjustment of status application outside of the immigration court.
M.A. & G.H., in Los Angeles, California
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