Deported for drug related offense.

[Lornaevo 48]

This question is not for me. It's for my cousin. His girlfriend was deported after her prison sentence. She was arrested and charged with selling drugs. He is a US citizen. What are her chances of ever coming to America again?

I figured it would be no chance.

[kzielu 1,149]

Zero.

[jkelly07 120]

i belive never again allowed in the united states,

[Lornaevo 48]

Thanks guys. That's what I thought.

[aaron2020 11,651]

Selling drugs is as bad as murder when it comes to immigration.

Your cousin's girlfriend is 100% inadmissible. She has a lifetime ban from the US. Nothing will ever change that - not even marriage to a US citizen or her having US citizen children.

[Lornaevo 48]

Selling drugs is as bad as murder when it comes to immigration.

Your cousin's girlfriend is 100% inadmissible. She has a lifetime ban from the US. Nothing will ever change that - not even marriage to a US citizen or her having US citizen children.

Thank you very much.

[Leatherneck 693]

It's an offense that falls under "moral turpitude." Here's the law.

Link

8 USC § 1182 - Inadmissible aliens

(2) Criminal and related grounds

(A) Conviction of certain crimes

(i) In general Except as provided in clause (ii), any alien convicted of, or who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of—

(I) crime involving moral turpitude (other than a purely political offense) or an attempt or conspiracy to commit such a crime, or

(II) a violation of (or a conspiracy or attempt to violate) any law or regulation of a State, the United States, or a foreign country relating to a controlled substance (as defined in section 802 of title 21), is inadmissible.

(ii)ExceptionClause (i)(I) shall not apply to an alien who committed only one crime if—

(I)the crime was committed when the alien was under 18 years of age, and the crime was committed (and the alien released from any confinement to a prison or correctional institution imposed for the crime) more than 5 years before the date of application for a visa or other documentation and the date of application for admission to the United States, or

(II)the maximum penalty possible for the crime of which the alien was convicted (or which the alien admits having committed or of which the acts that the alien admits having committed constituted the essential elements) did not exceed imprisonment for one year and, if the alien was convicted of such crime, the alien was not sentenced to a term of imprisonment in excess of 6 months (regardless of the extent to which the sentence was ultimately executed).

(B) Multiple criminal convictions Any alien convicted of 2 or more offenses (other than purely political offenses), regardless of whether the conviction was in a single trial or whether the offenses arose from a single scheme of misconduct and regardless of whether the offenses involved moral turpitude, for which the aggregate sentences to confinement were 5 years or more is inadmissible.

© Controlled substance traffickers Any alien who the consular officer or the Attorney General knows or has reason to believe—(i)is or has been an illicit trafficker in any controlled substance or in any listed chemical (as defined in section 802 of title 21), or is or has been a knowing aider, abettor, assister, conspirator, or colluder with others in the illicit trafficking in any such controlled or listed substance or chemical, or endeavored to do so; or(ii)is the spouse, son, or daughter of an alien inadmissible under clause (i), has, within the previous 5 years, obtained any financial or other benefit from the illicit activity of that alien, and knew or reasonably should have known that the financial or other benefit was the product of such illicit activity,is inadmissible.

(B) Multiple criminal convictions Any alien convicted of 2 or more offenses (other than purely political offenses), regardless of whether the conviction was in a single trial or whether the offenses arose from a single scheme of misconduct and regardless of whether the offenses involved moral turpitude, for which the aggregate sentences to confinement were 5 years or more is inadmissible.

© Controlled substance traffickers Any alien who the consular officer or the Attorney General knows or has reason to believe—(i)is or has been an illicit trafficker in any controlled substance or in any listed chemical (as defined in section <a title="§ 802 - Definitions" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/802" alt="§ 802 - Definitions">802 of title 21), or is or has been a knowing aider, abettor, assister, conspirator, or colluder with others in the illicit trafficking in any such controlled or listed substance or chemical, or endeavored to do so; or(ii)is the spouse, son, or daughter of an alien inadmissible under clause (i), has, within the previous 5 years, obtained any financial or other benefit from the illicit activity of that alien, and knew or reasonably should have known that the financial or other benefit was the product of such illicit activity,is inadmissible

Edited January 10, 2013 by Leatherneck