Warning: Mega complicated question

[bowflex 0]

Can I personally suggest that we lock this thread? This is one of those threads where the good information and advice is mixed in with some mis-informed/confusing information that could possible convince the OP that she hasn't done anything wrong, and that she is a-ok to get this job she told us about.

I don't know what you guys think, but it will just go on forever as a battle between decent information, and totally misguided information.

Yep I agree with you too on this. Just because it's possible that the OP might not be found to have an overstay, if she lies about it and it's found out down the road that's a lifetime ban with no chance of a waiver. I think the OP knows that she's in the wrong and that's all there is to it. She can either continue on living in the States as a criminal or return and possibly try it the right way, bottom line really.

[Reba 2]

I never said she entered without inspection, I said she can't prove that she DID enter with inspection. The thing is with your friend even if he loses his Canadian passport, there's a paper trail somewhere within USCIS that gave him his student visa. Right? However, if he cannot prove that he entered the country legally, and ICE doesn't feel like looking up his claims that he is a dual national with a visa granted by USCIS, they can (have before to others, and will again) deport him back to his birth country, if the only ID he has on him is an Iranian passport. According to the law, they can hold you indefinitely, without legal counsel, and without having to notify anyone that they're holding you. And they can send you back from whereever it is they think you came from.

I also suggested she leave voluntarily. A couple of times IIRC. By land even, so as not to have to use her British passport to get on a plane and arouse suspicion on herself.

Read into it what you will, but the point is, the only citizenship she can currently prove to US authorities is British. And because she cannot prove that she entered the country legally and with inspection, it is very likely that she could/would be deported. To Britain.

Edited May 19, 2009 by Reba

[Kathryn41 3,205]

The information the OP requested has been given along with a lot of speculation and some misinformation. The OP hasn't come back to respond and we seem to be at the stage where we are just debating different positions of legal vs illegal. I am therefore closing this thread as it has pretty well run its course.