IMBRA & You

[A Man of Action 0]

Whether you are for it or against IMBRA your opinion does not count. It is done. It is law.

It was sponsored by hilary clinton and signed into law by US President Bush.

Here are some links:

See (go to bottom and click on "Read More"):

www.usaimmigrationattorney.com/nucleus/

See:

http://www.latineuro.com/garybalasview.htm

An example IMBRA Interview:

http://www.rwguide.com/forums/topic.cfm?topic=2421

The one’s who cannot take action against IMBRA are the paltry 9,000 – 14,000 per year K-1 Visa Applicants. Why? The group is too small to have any effect on the political process unlike the Million Men and Women Illegal Alien March. The numbers to have effect on the IMBRA Law by the paltry 9,000 – 14,000 per year K-1 Visa Applicants just aren’t there.

You can even sign a petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/imbra05/petition.html

New Form I-129F See: http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/forms/

If you Answer “Yes” you have convictions of the “specified crime” and you provide information, your statements must be Verified - Requires Specifically Trained and Certified USCIS Personnel Security access to Agency and Inter-agency Computers to verify Applicants Truthfulness i.e. FBI, CIA, State, County, and City Government Law Enforcement Databases.

If you Answer “No” you have convictions of the “specified crime” and you provide information, your statements must be Verified - Requires Specifically Trained and Certified USCIS Personnel Security access to Agency and Inter-agency Computers to verify Applicants Truthfulness i.e. FBI, CIA, State, County, and City Government Law Enforcement Databases.

How Will The USCIS Implement The IMBRA Law?

Well, Projected Estimates are 2 – 3 years. Here is the process:

Define requirements:

-Create Computer Interfaces for USCIS Workers to Enter IMBRA Data

-Create Computer Interfaces for USCIS Workers to Retrieve IMBRA Data

-Need to Create databases on IMBRA K-1, K-3’s, etc.

-Create Database Reports

Need to meet with Affected Agencies

-Define Specific Requirements for Nationwide Searches for Specified IMBRA Crimes.

-Determine Computer Access Levels

-Final Internal IMBRA Reports Review

-Get Internal Agency Approval Signatures

-Final External IMBRA Reports Review

-Get External Agency Approval Signatures

New Project? Do Cost Benefit Analysis:

Build in USCIS

Modify Existing Software?

or Buy From Outside Vendors

Need New Software?

Build IMBRA specific RFP, IMBRA specific RFQ and IMBRA specific RFI – To Be Fair to All Vendors

-IMBRA Hardware Requirements

-IMBRA Software Requirements

-How big Computer memory, CPU, Disk Storage Space

-Archiving IMBRA Records

Next USCIS Need to have Access to Inter-agency Law Enforcement Computers

-Need to meet with Affected Agencies

-Define Specific IMBRA Requirements for Nationwide Searches for IMBRA “Specified Crimes”.

-Determine Computer Access Levels

-Train USCIS Personnel about Computer Access

-Train USCIS Personnel about Computer Security

The IMBRA USCIS Plan Needs to be typed and bound with the New Law and New

-Rules,

-Regulations,

-Polices and

-Procedures

Next is Public Review (45 – 90 days)

Next Internal Final Review

Next External Final Review

Get Internal Agency Approval Signatures

Get External Agency Approval Signatures

**** Begin Work *****

Need Computer People

Hire Staff or Transfer Staff or Buy Outside Vendor Staff

- Train/Transfer Existing Staff – Career Advancement

Send Existing Staff Classes + Seminars to learn Computer Languages etc.

Need Review & Approval To Transfer Agency Personnel

Need Review & Approval To Transfer Agency and Inter-agency Personnel

Need Review & Approval To Transfer Agency and Inter-agency Dollars to Satisfy to pay the workers.

- Buy Venor Services

Release RFP, RFI, and RFQ to purchase outside Serivces (6 months)

Classes or seminars for all USCIS Personnel are required to teach the new IMBRA law and new

- Rules,

- nRegulations,

- Polices and

- Procedures

in the

- US and at

- Embassies, and

- Consulates and the National Visa Center.

Pamphlets must be produced in the following 14 languages initially:

- Russian, - Korean,

- Spanish, - Polish,

- Tagalog, - Japanese,

- Vietnamese, - French,

- Chinese, - Arabic,

- Ukrainian, - Portuguese

- Thai, - Hindi

Internally Create Pamphlets or Buy Vendor Services

( Should there be an RFP? To be fair and most cost effective to allow outside businesses to do the translation and printing which could be easier and cheaper saving taxpayer dollars especially for Tagalong and other languages the US Federal Government does not have full time translators available )

1. Need to hire 14 Translators

2. Need to Verify Translation is Correct

3. Create Printing Order

4. Send to Government Printing Office and get the IMBRA Pamphlets t in the Printing Queue

5. Box & Ship to all Embassy and Consulates

Next Test the System

- Plan a “Go Live” date

- Obtain Agency and Inter-Agency Review

- Obtain who approves, verifies, and signs for the final product from the new IMBRA System.

- Review

>>>>>>>>>> Go Live Date: Projected 2008. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The first years 2006 & 2007 IMBRA effects results will come back as a “Victory” against international marriages as the numbers will show a very significant decrease in applications and approval rates of K Visa Applications hence it will likely show too a steep decline in domestic fighting in international marriages between USC’s and Foreign Nationals. The IMBRA Laws will be shown to have made dramatic improvements as seen by the reported numbers for years 2006 & 2007 and quite possibly 2008.

[Ladylethal 12]

Again?

EDIT: I have to ask again anyway, once more, you post all this info. Where did you get it? What´s the official channel that gave you that info as facts?

Edited June 18, 2006 by Luis&Laura

[evansfan 0]

Again?

EDIT: I have to ask again anyway, once more, you post all this info. Where did you get it? What´s the official channel that gave you that info as facts?

I am with you on this question, and will the op please stop saying Hillary is the driving force behind this bill it was Maria Cantwell Senator from Washington, of course I forget everything bad in this world comes from Hillary

[BlueSurf 0]

We have not yet seen how IMBRA will be implemented!! Quit saying what will happen in the future when we don't know.

If fiance visa applications are denied due to IMBRA, it will largely be a mis-application of the law IMO. The law gives no valid reason to deny a visa to a couple, even if they met through a marriage broker and even if the petitioner has a criminal record. The only effect will be a chilling effect upon possible applicants due to the heresy of people like you, "A Man of Action".

If you wish to share your opinion, state it as such. Do not state facts that are untrue...please.

[Vagina Journey 0]

Dog #######

Sorry i was thinking outloud again

[gimygirl 0]

using a source to validate your posts will make them much more believable.

[iceyspots 0]

sources r fun!

[kitkat1 5]

using a source to validate your posts will make them much more believable.

Posting legitimate information would also be helpful. We have, unfortunately, read your other posts and we know everything you say is full of lies, errors and made up stories.

Quit your babbling - no one cares.

[GaryC 7]

I think I smell a troll with an ax to grind. I had my doubts when you and a few others popped up right after IMBRA broke loose. We have people here that are truly hurt by the delays and are looking for answers here. You and the other trolls coming in here stirring things up are just hurting others and are as bad as the ones that made this stupid law. Please go somewhere else.

[Littleone+Robert 0]

I think I smell a troll with an ax to grind. I had my doubts when you and a few others popped up right after IMBRA broke loose. We have people here that are truly hurt by the delays and are looking for answers here. You and the other trolls coming in here stirring things up are just hurting others and are as bad as the ones that made this stupid law. Please go somewhere else.

Yes, I do agree...Please go somewhere else..( I think ...Heaven oh! not...HELL)

[tigretigre 0]

THIS guy again? He seems to be ignorant of the meaning of some of those subtle social cues...like people yelling GO AWAY

[gtigiant 0]

a first rate chopf#ck i dare say

[Qiao - 108 days 0]

These posts are really getting old and wasting space for useful information on this forum. There are ways to push for changes in our government, and the last time I checked, bombarding this forum with posts was not one of them.

It might be helpful to accept that sometimes things happen that you don't like and are outside of your control.

Let's get back to supporting each other through this process!!

[A Man of Action 0]

For the Thinking USC & Foreign National Fiance(e), something to be aware and consider. Abuse and Domestic Fighting among USC's ia a very serious problem in the US.

Here is the Pamphlet Will Essentially Explain a Strategy:

Find an American (any American will do, but the richer the better of course).

Get married as soon as possible

Get access to his or her bank accounts, credit cards, etc. Start moving family finances under control.

- Build a network of other immigrants in the area. Tell them tales of abuse, neglect and sufferings (they will serve as witnesses later on)

Start looking for a boy/girl friend to taste (optional)

- Once change of status petition is filed, move into action:

- Stage a "confrontation" incident (may include a 911 call; some self-inflicted scratches and bruises; staged "confrontation" scene completed with overturned furniture and broken things)

- Get police on the scene as soon as possible

- Get the husband or USC Wife arrested

- Get any "evidence" of abuse documented (scratches and bruises photographed)

- Before he or gets out of jail, get to a women's shelter

Tell everyone stories of life threats, abuse, intimidation, fear of calling police, etc.

- Enlist the shelter's help in getting a protective warrant (Restriaining Order) against the USC husband or Wife.

- After the police report is filed, file a petition with USCIS to continue with the greencard paperwork to receive American residency without the USC husband's or Wife's involvement.

- Once that petition is approved, start collecting welfare from the state

- Using the Affidavit of Support the USC husband or Wife filed prior to marriage, ask for maintenance during the domestic violence trial and later during divorce proceedings

800 - Phone Numbers Here

Problems created for all:

These newly arrived immigrants are getting welfare or social service benefits at the taxpayers' expense. To get these they need only to make the claim of abuse to the USCIS. They then receive these benefits while their application forms (I-360) are being processed. This can take many months.

They get United States Citizenship at an accelerated rate. The fraud they commit, which is a Federal felony, is rewarded at a faster rate than those immigrants who adhere to the law.

The USCIS' system of accepting the "evidence" of abuse only from the petitioner as well as their lack of a system to receive "the other side of the story" from the accused plus there being no hearing with either party seems to indicate US Lawmakers VAWA wish to wink these cases through... Why? Possibly to avoid a time consuming and costly appeal process through the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), the immigration courts.

American woman are now being targeted with marriage fraud and with it, it's false abuse charges. The USCIS is gender neutral about this and grants foreign men Legal Permanent Residency (LPR) status or a "Green Card" and eventual US citizenship because these men claim that their American Wives abused and beat them and /or threatened to take away their immigration benefits (control issues).

Many USCIS personnel are sympathetic to American men and women caught in these situations but are powerless to help them. As of 1996 all spousal abuse petitions are handled by the Vermont Service Center. The local USCIS service centers that are in the position to hear both sides of the case and receive evidence from both the accuser and the accused are kept out of the process by the V.S.C. and directives from Arlington, Virginia. Under directives they are required to send the permanent files of the petitioner to the V.S.C. This effectively ends their involvement with the petitioner in regard to these abuse claims.

By USCIS directives the accused is NOT permitted to find out what claims the petitioner has made against the USC. Nor is the USC permitted to be a witness at his or her trial if he or she has one. The accused USC is given no opportunity to defend herself or himself against his or her charges to the USCIS.

The accused, a United States citizen is labeled "The Abuser" by the immigrant spouse in her or his USCIS petition and this is put into Federal files and USCIS computers permanently .

American men and women who became victims of this scam have no place to voice their complaints and no law to protect them. They suffer severe emotional and financial damages trying to defend themselves against false accusations.

[Caladan 19]

So IMBRA overturned the Fifth Amendment?

Ooh, and you didn't have enough people riled up, so now you're making the outrageous claim that American women have to fear abuse charges from their foreign fiancés? Are you even listening to yourself?

Whatever. People, read the text of the actual code, not the interpretations of fear mongers.