Greyhound buses and Immigration Saga

[Shauneg 762]

Why can't she go home again? I must have missed that part somewhere....

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22 minutes ago, Shauneg said:

Why can't she go home again? I must have missed that part somewhere....

OP says she has no financial support back home (presumably no other living relatives?), and that both of her parents were "mysteriously killed over property issues" so she's afraid to go back to her home country.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

On 4/23/2018 at 2:40 PM, ConOfficer said:

Maybe Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. Needs a lawyer with knowledge of state family law.

Is this what you mean? 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/nyregion/special-immigrant-juvenile-status-trump.html

 

Do you know if this article is accurate, because the cousin is 18 and this says “Under the new interpretation, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services said that applicants in New York who were over 18, but not yet 21, when they began the application process no longer qualify.”

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

On 4/23/2018 at 9:08 PM, Boiler said:

Has she been assisting the authorities with these crimes?

Out of status people seldom report crimes, and people from certain countries where violence and sexual violence are more prevalent (and sometimes even accepted in certain segments of the population), don’t always realize the type of rights they have in the US. (This is why many consulates in Africa and I believe some other continents hand out pamphlets to women immigrants informing them that things such as husbands beating wives and FGM are illegal in the US, things you take for granted they may not....) And 18 is young. If this story is true, and it may well be, it’s a terrible one for the girl involved. (I don’t know what that means for whether or not she can get status. I’m as cynical as the next VJer but I do think sometimes  we forget that there are actual people involved in these stories and that they are not all made up to get green cards.)