i am trying to sponsor my husband to get his green card and i need a really good lawyer because his case is on reapeal because he was denied for his first case, before i met him it was already in progress so once it was denied he applied for an appeal and recently we got married and his appeal is still pending, i want to sponsor him and i am worried because i need a really GOOD lawyer to work this case!! thanks, oh and the court that we have to go to is in baton rouge louisiana, so the lawyer has to be from there. =] +also if you have any advice please please let me know,this is all really new to me and i would appreciate 'the heads up' on anything anyone has or is experiancing. =] okay, he came here on a work visa, stayed then after 9/11 he went to canada and applied got denied,came back to the US but he didnt notify immigration to say hey im leaving so he got picked up when he re entered the US, bonded out and applied for his green card,got denied and then applied for an appeal and here we are..yea. he is from pakistan his first case was a political assilem* not spelled right but oh well. he has been here for 10 years or so
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the problem is you let all of the details you would tell a lawyer, so how could anyone give you adivce? You don't say what country he is from, is he here illegally or not, how he entered the country, why he got denied for the first time, what type of visa was he trying to get the first time, etc. But as far as looking for a lawyer, you could try avvo.com and do a search So, he was in the US legally, then left. He went to Canada, he didn't notify immigration that he went to the US so he entered without inspection (EWI). All EWI are denied any adjustment of status within the US, unless they get asylum. But you said he got denied asylum. You are supposed to apply for asylum as soon as you entered the US or it is denied automatically. I would say that it is pretty much zero chance that he will be able to ever adjust status in the US under those circumstances. He likely has a deportation order. If you try to get married when in removal procedings, you can't adjust status until you are actually removed or leave (or win the asylum appeal). So basically, your marriage would have been able to adjust him if he simply overstayed the work visa and didn't leave the US, but since he left then came back EWI, I think your only chance is to win the asylum appeal. I would save the money and not try to adjust status on the marriage until you know the outcome of that. The lawyers will just take your money, and you be out an additional 3 or 4 grand, in addition to the money to deal with the asylum. In the end you could be out 7 or 8 grand at least, and the chances are very below average that he would be able to win the case. I hope this guy is worth the thousands of dollars you will spend fighting this, and you have the money to fight it...plus you should be prepared for the possibility he will eventually be deported and banned from the country for 10 years minimum.
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