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CRIMINAL BACKGROUND + OVERSTAY

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usa12   0

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Hello

Before sending our k1 petition, I'd like to ask for your advice on this...

I went to the US as an au pair in 2003. I was 20 and my friends were all over 21 and they made a fake ID for me ( my home country driver's license). It was stupid, I know... but you don't think much about onsequences when you're that young...

I got caught the first time I used it getting in a bar in NJ. They took me to the police station, gave me a green paper and told me I had to go to court Never went to jail... just had to go to court.

So I did. My host-mother at time went with me. There were about 20 other people there for a fake id...

I had to pay a $900,00 fine and do 40 hours of community service. I paid the fine, but did only 20 hours of community service bc it was christmas and I was leaving my host family's house. So, they called me in court again after a few months and I had to pay another fine for $500 and that was it. My court papers say it was an OFFENSE, not a crime and again, I never went to jail.

I decided to stay a little longer in the country after the au pair program ended and a lawyer sent a petition to Vermont to change my visa status to B2 in February ( I still had my J1 visa)

I didn't get an answer until Oct 6th saying that it was approved from Oct 6th 2004 to Oct 6th 2004. Huh...

So I left the country in Dec 20th 2004.

My question is: I was out of status from OCt to Dec or since February?

Last year I applied for a B2 visa and got it. It's valid for 10 years and I went to the States to visit friends and my fiancé this year.

Am I gonna get the k1 denied bc of what happened in the past?

Thanks a lot for all your thoughts about it.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,235

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No,

you won't get denied. The fact that you got a B2 is proof that you didn't overstay enough to get in trouble. The K-1 is even easier to get, as immigration intent is implied.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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