bring up deportation at interview? mexico

[bryan&nicole 0]

k3 visa approved last Friday for my wife and kids, I will have a interview in México for visa in 3 or 4 months I guess. While doing some reading on visa jourey.com, I see that they ask at the interview have you ever been in the united states and or deported! Yikes I guess I figured that I would have had to deal with this in the visa application process, but after providing the additional information they wanted {unrelated], and waiting over a year and now approved! I thought all the problems where behind me! Now I'm debating playing poker or not, reading and talking to lawyers well help me determine if I play or forfeit. My wife as two deportations, I think first was removed with 5 year ban, second was removed with 20 year ban. I do recall, I think, having one lawyer looking her up once with her last deport order , and it did come up. We do not know why USA insisted 'Norma' as her name? There is no association of Norma with my wife or her family but she stayed three extra days in jail arguing that Norma was not part of her name! Her name is ---------------, but after 11 days in jail she agreed with what ever they said just to get out of jail! We do not know how her name is written on 1996 order. But as she recalls, the finger print alone brought her name up right away for the 96 violation which was a 5 year bar from entering. Her reason for entering is one where any one in the world would have done the same thing, and people would only speak of her with words of valor and honor, commendable, but who's ears will it fall upon? [ gamble ] and the billons of stories they must of herd all ready. So will they ask, will they know, am I premature, will we not even be allowed a interview if they discover this? wWll they discover and allow the interview? Do I file for a I-212 now and risk exposing something that may not have ever been brought up? From what I have read if denied a visa at the interview and you file a I-212 its at least a year or more. My boy is 8 months old all ready and I have only seen him three times I cant take much more waiting, advice?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Whenever you are asked anything by immigration, you always tell the truth. Do not prevaricate or try to lie because the repercussions of that can result in a lifetime ban.

Now, if she had two deportation orders and both of them resulted in bans, and she then served out the time of the bans I don't believe she should have a problem. She has already 'served her time". I may be wrong, however, so this may be something you want to ask of a qualified and experienced Immigration lawyer.

From my understanding, I don't believe you can file for a waiver until you actually receive a denial. If you feel that a waiver might be required, then you can certainly prepare the request and take it to the interview. If the interview is fine and you are approved then you don't need the waiver; if the interview results in a denial for which a waiver is required, you can then present the waiver at that time. Yes, there is a waiting time for a waiver and outside of visiting them in their country there is not much else you can do other than wait it out.

Again, you would do well to speak with a good immigration lawyer for further clarification. Good luck.

[Reba 2]

They will already know about her deportations and bans, so when they ask at her interview, they are asking for the soul purpose of finding out if she'll be truthful or not. If she is not truthful, they'll deny her visa. If she's truthful, and they feel her marriage to you is in good faith and she's not just doing it for the green card, they'll approve her visa.

They don't ask questions that they don't already (think they) know the answer to.

[desert_fox 32]

I can almost guarantee you that they will already know....if they catch you lying under oath, thats an automatic lifetime ban. It will all come up in the FBI checks and will easily be verified when they take her fingerprints.