do you think its fair how some people breeze through the immigration?

Question

process and for some people it can take years?

i feel ashamed that i compleated immigration in 7 months im from the uk my husband is american even my interview was only 10 minutes long i did all the paperwork myself i wish everyone goodluck

Answer 1

No, it is based on the visa failure rate for a country. Fewer from the UK overstay than from other countries, or otherwise 'defraud' the system. So they tend more to 'breeze through' on a marriage visa. Note that that is the highest priority visa of all, however.

Answer 2

No, it is not fair. It is,however, the ordinary and natural result of a "legal system" that is used to manipulate and twist the law into whatever shape the interest groups and their lapdogs wish. When government officials are granted broad, unbridled discretion, or when the review of their decisions is limited or delayed (as it is in immigration), there effectively is no "rule of law". Aliens' lives and futures, and many times, the fortunes of their legal and legitimate employers and family members, depend upon a favorable decision by some petty bureaucrat. When the laws are so numerous and so complicated that an average person cannot know and understand them all, law ceases to be a tool for defining and fashioning civilized conduct; at that point, it is a tool for oppression via governmental/prosecutorial discretion. At that point, the laws are not made to be obeyed and followed, but to be broken so that the government can "get" whomever it wants, since everyone effectively can be considered lawbreakers.

Immigration law is merely the most obvious way that this discretion is regularly and systematically abused. In fact, when consular officials give a reason for denying a visa, they cite INA sec. 221(g), which effectively means "they didn't look eligible to me". In some cases, they will give additional details, but they are under no compulsion to do so because they do not want the person to comply with the legal requirements, they just want the right to say "no". While this might be justifiable in the sense of who gets let into the country (we actually do want a measure of discretion, to keep out terrorists and the like), it sadly has become a reality in many other areas of the law.

Discretion cuts both ways, and it sometimes hurts a lot.

Answer 3

That's my story, in a nutshell. I came to the US legally as a student almost 20 years ago. My sister, a citizen by birth, put in an application for my residency. That was in 1993. In the meantime, I paid for all of my college, paid for all my expenses, paid taxes on any part-time on-campus jobs I held, paid for the registration and insurance on my card....basically I played by the rules. six years later my papperwork was still somewhere in the pile. But no change of status, therefore not eligible for employment without a company sponsorship. Upon graduating from my MS I was told by some companies (off the record) that I was a liability for hiring because I was a foreigner. As if I was going to hop the Mexico border in the opposite direction!!!!!!

Had it not been because I found a company that needed someone with my EXACT expertise (down to the computer programming electives!) and international qualifications I would have never had a ghost of a chance of securing a job.

When I get to my new job I find that my manager had been an illegal until just a few years previous. My education and qualifications exceeded his own, and I was soon at odds with him for pointing out things that the company had been doing wrong for years. I was one of the few foreigners in the whole company (the workforce was nearly 80% immigrant) that had done everything legally. Mostwere fence-hoppers, and there were several who had been making way over what my salary was, for many years, and all this time I was basically waiting for a favor from a company.

So ask me again. Do I think it's fair? Frak no!

Let me say it again. Is it fair? Frak no!

I am now about to submit my application for adjustment from legal resident alien to naturalized citizen. I have paid for every last dime of those legal proceedings, never even questioning whether I was doing the right thing or not. I did everything the long and expensive way. I am proud of how I did everything. And I resent...RESENT all those zillions of fence-hoppers who get away with so much that I had to work so hard to achieve the legal way.

Answer 4

I live in a city on the outskirts of Phoenix. This person should have never been allowed in the USA . The long time that it takes many to navigate their way thru legal immigration is needed to prevent this type of occurrence. We need longer more intense medical examines to help reveal potential problems. The fact that illegal aliens do not go thru ANY medical tests is simply wrong and frightening . Yes the same problems can happen to legal Americans .But that doesn't mean our policy's on legal immigration should be relaxed or hurried..

TB :
A man infected with an especially virulent strain of tuberculosis has spent eight months in a hospital jail ward under a court order and may be held until he dies.
Robert Daniels has not been charged with a crime, but the 27-year-old violated the rules of a voluntary quarantine, exposing others to a potentially deadly illness. Maricopa County public health officials got a court order to keep him locked up.
The TB strain Daniels has is so dangerous that he has never met his appointed lawyer, Robert Blecher, who describes the situation as "extremely unusual."
Daniels' hospital room is designed so that air flows in, never out, to prevent the bacterium from spreading.
Daniels, who has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Russia, contracted "extreme multidrug resistant tuberculosis" while living in Russia, court records show.
He was diagnosed two years ago in Russia, and said he came to Phoenix in January 2006 after being told drugs were hard to get and expensive.
Daniels went to a Phoenix hospital with respiratory problems in July 2006, and was sent to a Phoenix halfway house for indigent TB patients under a voluntary quarantine. He was ordered to continue treatment and wear a mask when he went out in public because the disease is spread by airborne contact.
Daniels stopped taking his medication and went unmasked to a restaurant, a convenience market and other stores, court records stated.
Robert England, Maricopa County's tuberculosis control officer, said in court filings that Daniels understands the rules, but "merely refuses to follow them."
England applied for and received a "compulsory detention" order for Daniels, a legal tool used about once a year in Arizona.
Daniels, who has a wife and child in Russia, said in a telephone interview with The Arizona Republic that he didn't want to confuse people by wearing a mask and that doctors at Russian clinics where he was treated didn't even wear masks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported there were 14,097 cases of TB in the United States last year. Just 15 were of the rare strain Daniels has. Prospects for his release are unclear. A 2006 medical assessment indicated the disease was mutating in Daniels.

Answer 5

Yeah,I agree.I think it all depends on where the immigrant is coming from.I mean,if someone is trying to immigrate from Japan or somewheres near there,America is more than willing to accomodate them vs. someone from,lets say,Mexico.Why?Because we already have so many hispanic people here,they aren't really anything special anymore.Atleast according to our government.

Example : My parents attended church where a family who migrated from Africa also attended.Our government gave them green cards,a home, jobs, and paid for their education.All within 6mos.Now they own a home and have great jobs(the man is working in an attorneys office).

My husband is from Mexico.We applied for the I130(petition for relative,spouse,or orphan)about 6yrs ago.We still haven't received word back.But now we have a lawyer and are bypassing that and are hopefully going to get his card in 6mos. or so.HOPEFULLY.

Anyway,I'm sure our wonderful government won't pay for his school and give us a place to live rent free and find him a great job.Why not? Because he came from Mexico.


But,on the flip side.Some people have more difficult issues than others.Insufficient paperwork,incorrect documentation,etc.....All this can make it alot harder for some people.Not to mention that it is almost impossible to complete everything without a lawyer.So,there are alot of things to consider when comparing immigration stories.

Answer 6

this is a response to the fellow who waited 20 years legally for his immigration status.

I salute you for doing things the right way and sticking to it. God Bless You !!

Answer 7

It's not easy. There's this guy with incurable TB in Phoenix...and he is made to be alone, with no radio, TV or contacts. For the rest of his life. No trial.

Don't believe me?

GOOGLE: Robert "TB" Daniels, Phoenix

Answer 8

No it's not fair that some people cross the borders illegally while other people have to wait patiently for their turn...