immigration visited home

[furiousng 2]

This is the first actual case I have read of USCIS actually visiting..

[trillium13 84]

Wow I had no idea they could go to your house...does this happen often? I'm worried now because my mom lives in the same neighborhood as me and since she has some health issues i sometimes sleep over at her house. Now i'm worried that they're gonna come one of those day :-S

I wouldn't worry about that too much. Staying with your sick mom isn't illegal. Working without legal permission and then lying about it is.

[Diazy 10]

What we seem to forget when we apply for status change is that our pictures are included. Immigration personnel can easily drop by our home at any given time and view our activities (going to the supermarket, going out together, picking up our mail). Who is to tell that the person we see in our neighbourhood asking questions isn't an immigration field officer. Sometimes people come up to us to have small talk and they ask questions like, how long have we been living in the neighbourhood, if we know of any place for rent, if it's our day-off from work, if we are married etc. We will never know who these people are. Immigration has pictures of us; we do not have a picture of them, lol.

The only reason I don't think they can do any of this, even if they have our pictures, is simply because they don't have the necessary funds to be sending immigration officers to every single place where an AOS has been requested. If anything i would think they check only the necessary cases, maybe where they see red flags? Don't you guys agree?

I agree with you.

They have a lot of cases to work at.

I think they check only "red flag" cases or if they get suspicious at one particular case.