Deported for an Agravated felony but we think he is a US Citizen? What to do next?

[EM_Vandaveer 2,388]

Do update us, please! I am very interested in the outcome. Good luck to your cousin. Everybody deserves a second chance.

[Shub 78]

Hello everyone I appreciate all the responses I have received and everyone that has taken the time to respond and even the research that was done. Just an update my grandmother and cousin did go to the Embassy yesterday , although it was a little late he was able to speak to an officer, he tried to explain the whole situation from beginning to end. The officer was taken aback from the whole situation, but gave him an appointment for today,told him to go back today, he is there as I'm typing. But from what the officer told him yesterday was that if everything that my cousin told him was true, he is a US CITIZEN but never formally claimed it or got the required paperwork to prove it. So at this point he told him he was able to receive a US Passport if everything that was told was accurate and today is the day that they would see what paperwork will be needed and what items to bring to process one. So ill be waiting to see what they tell him He said he would call as soon as he was home.

Please do update us! It's great that things are already moving along so fast.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be very interested to learn of the outcome, whatever it may be. Admittedly I hope that the outcome is as I have been arguing in this thread since yesterday, if only to selfishly vindicate my argument against the doomsayers and other negative Nancies, but I'll be equally interested to learn why he is not a US citizen, if such is the case.

[katie1990 23]

Do update us, please! I am very interested in the outcome. Good luck to your cousin. Everybody deserves a second chance.

I will thank you, Im sure there is many more people that have gone through this. Just yesterday we learned about another US Citizen that was also wrongly deported to Honduras and taken into a Honduran jail , then that fire happened where a lot of prisoners died, he died also. Now the family is suing the US Government. I don't know how to copy and paste I'm not that good with computers but you can look it up . Man its just sad.

[elle13 15]

For what it's worth, I am sharing an anecdotal example of what happened to my husband.

He travelled legally into the US when he was 6. His birth mother was already a green card holder, and eventually became a US citizen. My husband grew up in the US, went to school etc, graduated and then joined the military. He didn't join the military to get a US citizenship, it was a career he truly wanted. He was always under the impression that he was an LPR, and he had a green card. A few years into his military career, he received advice that he should sort out his citizenship. He was in his 20s by then. He filled out his details, social security etc and they issued him with a certificate of citizenship, but the date on which he became a citizen was backdated to when he was in middle school! He worked out that this date was when his birth mother became a US citizen. So he was a citizen that whole time, but didn't know it.

[katie1990 23]

Please do update us! It's great that things are already moving along so fast.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be very interested to learn of the outcome, whatever it may be. Admittedly I hope that the outcome is as I have been arguing in this thread since yesterday, if only to selfishly vindicate my argument against the doomsayers and other negative Nancies, but I'll be equally interested to learn why he is not a US citizen, if such is the case.

Apparently that is the outcome because the Officer himself told him that he was a US Citizen and had to process a US Passport but obviously needed to have all the paperwork at hand, si since everything as as we have said i is then he is one. But I will definitely post when he calls.

For what it's worth, I am sharing an anecdotal example of what happened to my husband.

He travelled legally into the US when he was 6. His birth mother was already a green card holder, and eventually became a US citizen. My husband grew up in the US, went to school etc, graduated and then joined the military. He didn't join the military to get a US citizenship, it was a career he truly wanted. He was always under the impression that he was an LPR, and he had a green card. A few years into his military career, he received advice that he should sort out his citizenship. He was in his 20s by then. He filled out his details, social security etc and they issued him with a certificate of citizenship, but the date on which he became a citizen was backdated to when he was in middle school! He worked out that this date was when his birth mother became a US citizen. So he was a citizen that whole time, but didn't know it.

Thank you for sharing, that is very interesting to know that cases like this do happen, maybe not exactly the same but its just one of those things that you don't really put any thought to!

[katie1990 23]

To those people that can't get past the fact that he was an LPR for so long, YES my uncle was ignorant, like I said, when that Notario told him he would process my cousins green card along with my aunts, my uncle thought what the hell it can't hurt he said he didn't think much of it it was just one of those things that couldn't hurt to get done. He wanted nothing to do with Immigration or knew anything that had to do with Immigration. He though that as long as he had his family in his country he didn't care . And yes back when they crossed things were much easier, as long as one said US Citizen they'd wave you by. My aunt did sign paperwork, and the officer did tell her that she had to get her legal status processed as soon as possible,wether you want to believe it or not I don't care. I know thats how it was because when I was brought here in 1996 Were were waved in by an officer . Only the driver said she was a USC. USCIS does make errors, on my I-130 that my stepfather filed for me they put it down as wife or husband of a US CITIZEN! Thankfully the interviewing officer told me they do make mistakes it happens!

[katie1990 23]

You know for us Immigration is one of those things that you don't really look into until you see that things are going bad, or are about to. I can see why my family and my cousin didn't really look into their whole situation before getting stuck in this mess. Because I did the exact same thing, I was here Illegaly from 2001 until 2012 when THEN i decided it was time to fix my legal status, I could have done it a decade before I would've been a USC years ago, but I too didn't put any though to it. Yes both me and my mother were ignorant as well. Thank God were LPR's now. But it does happen.

[katie1990 23]

ANd to all the people that are being mean and saying that he needs to stay out, thats not what I asked, the courts already judged him. He did his time, paid for his crime. That is done and over with. SO since you are a US CITIZEN because you commit a crime they should deport you as well? His crime makes him less of a US CItizen than you? Come on doesn't make sense.

[Caryh 5,206]

ANd to all the people that are being mean and saying that he needs to stay out, thats not what I asked, the courts already judged him. He did his time, paid for his crime. That is done and over with. SO since you are a US CITIZEN because you commit a crime they should deport you as well? His crime makes him less of a US CItizen than you? Come on doesn't make sense.

There are some that certainly would want to deport citizens by birth within the USA for crimes. But where would they be deported to?

[katie1990 23]

There are some that certainly would want to deport citizens by birth within the USA for crimes. But where would they be deported to?

Thats true .

[Boiler 44,927]

ANd to all the people that are being mean and saying that he needs to stay out, thats not what I asked, the courts already judged him. He did his time, paid for his crime. That is done and over with. SO since you are a US CITIZEN because you commit a crime they should deport you as well? His crime makes him less of a US CItizen than you? Come on doesn't make sense.

He entered the US as a citizen.

Both parents knew he was a citizen, see above.

He presumably stated that he was a LPR when arrested, tried, sentenced, jailed etc..

He was deported as a LPR.

Neither parent saw fit to mention he was a USC.

[katie1990 23]

He entered the US as a citizen.

Both parents knew he was a citizen, see above.

He presumably stated that he was a LPR when arrested, tried, sentenced, jailed etc..

He was deported as a LPR.

Neither parent saw fit to mention he was a USC.

I get what you're saying , He was deported as an LPR because he truly did not think that he was a USC. My aunt really did not think or know he was a USC, my uncle maybe might've thought at some point he was because of that the CBP told him at the border about him being a USC, but after he got a green card it all stayed as he was just a green card holder. Some people just don't look at things as a bigger picture than you and others are looking at it. Yes it is ignorance.

[Boiler 44,927]

You said the Aunt told you he entered as a USC.

[katie1990 23]

You said the Aunt told you he entered as a USC.

No my uncle told me he entered as a USC, my mistake if i said aunt.

[Boiler 44,927]

So the Aunt told the Uncle?