Army

[C&J79 0]

I'm not sure where to post this, as it really has nothing to do with immigration process at all....

My husband immigrated to the US almost 3 years ago from England and we recently celebrated our 5 year anni (We got much help from the people here on this board durning the immigration process, I no longer have access to the email I used before), in June 2012 my husband will be able to try for citizenship in the US.

My husband begin working for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice over a year ago, my husband was offered a better job elsewhere and changed jobs a month ago.

One of his former co-workers from TDCJ recently decided to join the US Army, he went for his interview with the Army today (the co-worker, not my husband) and afterwards called my husband, saying that his whole interview with Army Intelligence (which is where he will be placed) was full of questions about my husband because he was a foregin national, the co-worker said he didnt put my husband down on any paper, they sort of hit him out of the blue with it all and they wanted to know things like, was he here legally, does he have a green card, did my husbands father serve in the British Army (which he did, as did his grandfather, in both WWI and WWII)and so on. The former co-worker didnt really know the answers to the questions, and my husband gave him all the answers to the questions they were asking. The former co-worker then said that Army Intelligence said they would very likely be by the house to interview my husband.

Does anyone know why the US Army would be coming by to check out my husband because a former co-worker of his is joining the Army?

I don't mind it at all, my husband was never in any trouble in England (clean police record) and hasnt had so much as a ticket here (again clean police record) he has held a job since he got his SS#, pays taxes, gotten his driver's license, and joined the local volunteer fire department, and has donated alot of free time and service and parts he bought himself (he is a guilded mechanic) to repairing the heavily damaged fire trucks for the department, and we have nothing at all to hide.

For some reason this makes me extremely nervous, I've never heard of this happening before where the Army comes out to an immigrants house because one of his former co-workers he hasnt seen since he left TDCJ a month ago decided to join the army. They clearly already knew the answers to the questions they were asking the former co-worker, and had already investigated my husband before the former co-workers interview today, so I'm not sure whats going on or what to think

I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on this!

[SMR 368]

I'm not sure where to post this, as it really has nothing to do with immigration process at all....

My husband immigrated to the US almost 3 years ago from England and we recently celebrated our 5 year anni (We got much help from the people here on this board durning the immigration process, I no longer have access to the email I used before), in June 2012 my husband will be able to try for citizenship in the US.

My husband begin working for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice over a year ago, my husband was offered a better job elsewhere and changed jobs a month ago.

One of his former co-workers from TDCJ recently decided to join the US Army, he went for his interview with the Army today (the co-worker, not my husband) and afterwards called my husband, saying that his whole interview with Army Intelligence (which is where he will be placed) was full of questions about my husband because he was a foregin national, the co-worker said he didnt put my husband down on any paper, they sort of hit him out of the blue with it all and they wanted to know things like, was he here legally, does he have a green card, did my husbands father serve in the British Army (which he did, as did his grandfather, in both WWI and WWII)and so on. The former co-worker didnt really know the answers to the questions, and my husband gave him all the answers to the questions they were asking. The former co-worker then said that Army Intelligence said they would very likely be by the house to interview my husband.

Does anyone know why the US Army would be coming by to check out my husband because a former co-worker of his is joining the Army?

I don't mind it at all, my husband was never in any trouble in England (clean police record) and hasnt had so much as a ticket here (again clean police record) he has held a job since he got his SS#, pays taxes, gotten his driver's license, and joined the local volunteer fire department, and has donated alot of free time and service and parts he bought himself (he is a guilded mechanic) to repairing the heavily damaged fire trucks for the department, and we have nothing at all to hide.

For some reason this makes me extremely nervous, I've never heard of this happening before where the Army comes out to an immigrants house because one of his former co-workers he hasnt seen since he left TDCJ a month ago decided to join the army. They clearly already knew the answers to the questions they were asking the former co-worker, and had already investigated my husband before the former co-workers interview today, so I'm not sure whats going on or what to think

I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on this!

I doubt anyone will be out. England isn't seen as a threat. My father had a similar situation getting a clearance for a company that he works at. They asked about my wife, who is Russian. But they never came to talk to us. Considering that it's Russia and the relationship is closer than in your situation and they still didn't really investigate, I would be surprised if they came to investigate you. In any case, it won't really be bad news for you unless you are actually spying. Worst case would be that the former co-worker doesn't get a clearance. But unless they uncover something I would see that as highly unlikely.

[C&J79 0]

I doubt anyone will be out. England isn't seen as a threat. My father had a similar situation getting a clearance for a company that he works at. They asked about my wife, who is Russian. But they never came to talk to us. Considering that it's Russia and the relationship is closer than in your situation and they still didn't really investigate, I would be surprised if they came to investigate you. In any case, it won't really be bad news for you unless you are actually spying. Worst case would be that the former co-worker doesn't get a clearance. But unless they uncover something I would see that as highly unlikely.

Well thats a bit of relief then, I was afraid we forgot to do something, some tiny piece of paperwork or something like that and it was gonna be a surprise deportation.

Lol, no spies here, so should be good on that area of it.

Knowing that its happened to others makes me feel more at ease over the situation.

Thanks so much SMR

[Ban Hammer 13,429]

Does anyone know why the US Army would be coming by to check out my husband because a former co-worker of his is joining the Army?

yes - you stated he was going into army intelligence. your husband is a developed character reference - or DCR (versus a listed character reference, or LCR, a LCR is one he put down on some papers for his security clearance application) - a DCR is one obtained by interviewing other people who knew this co-worker.

the investigators probably wanted know a bit more about your husband as this co-worker maintained a working relationship (and possibly a social relationship too) with your husband, who is a foreign national.

they will also probably want to interview your husband in regards to this co-worker - to see if this co-worker is worthy of a position with army intelligence. tell your husband to relax, it's not a spanish inquisition about him - it's about the former co-worker.

[Robert&Karen 264]

I have a security clearance and even when I visited England I needed to tell my Army unit and get approval. When I got back the'd ask me if I was accosted by foreign agents, etc. This is especially true in Intelligence circles, and perfectly normal. Anyone with ties to people outside the US will come into question.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Now's the time for your husband to come clean. Looks like the U.S. military intelligence is on his tracks already and knows about his MI5 ties.

[F & J 21]

C&J79,

Hi! Like charles! and Robert&Karen said, this is perfectly normal in the military (my husband is a soldier). If your husband's former co-worker needs a security clearance for his job, they will do a VERY thorough background check and interview people about him. Tell him not to stress and just answer their questions to the best of his knowledge if they do come to interview him

[VanessaTony 3,567]

My BIL had to go through government clearance in Australia and the US due to a job. My sister (his wife) and I are dual US/UK citizens which he had to disclose. He also had to answer questions about me because at that stage I was an LPR as well as my father is is UK born. I believe he was also asked questions about my husband (former military). Luckily he asked me first because that's when I found out they thought that I was a citizen of the US (not many people know much about immigration unless they do it) and that could have been bad (claiming USC and all that). So yeah it's common. I felt pretty bad that I made it a bit harder on him

That conversation is the reason I called my mum and found out she too though I was a USC so I definitely had some setting straight to do.

[Darnell 8,478]

C & J - this is absolutely normal. Charles has given you the backgrounder. No need to fret, at all.

[StraightShooter 62]

Sounds like the former co-worker may be going through a TS/SSBI background check. Perfectly normal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Scope_Background_Investigation