Could anybody help offer any insight from any previous similar experience?
I am sponsoring my Canadian parents. My mom had her IR5 interview in Montreal today.
My parents have history of visa cancellation and 5 year bar (was not allowed to re-enter US) in 1998 for working at their relative's business in the US on a visitor visa (stayed less than 6 months).
They served their 5 year completely and resided in Canada ever since. All that ended, they've been traveling to US for leisure multiple times the past almost 20 years. This incident has been written about everywhere - on their I-130 and ds-260.
The officer at the interview asked my mom about the visa cancellation. Officer first said visa cancellation should not affect this. Then she proceeded to look further in her computer. She then asked did she ever have any other visas canceled, or canadian visa canceled, etc, which my mom said no. the officer looked a little confused, then eventually said, she needed to look further into this, and my mom may be scheduled for another interview, but to just be on the lookout for an email. officer returned her documents and passport. She left with a 221g. and her online status says "refusal" at this time.
My mom also said that her finger printing had a hard time transferring. Also as a FYI, her USCIS security check was randomly placed on a very unusually long limbo - lawyer said her name may be common and may have needed additional time for processing.
Does the 5 year bar have anything to do with this? We went over this case over and over with our lawyer, and we just cannot find any reason for inadmissibility. Is it also telling at all that all of her docs/passport were returned??
So devastated... I thought this would be all done and over with today. My dad's interview is next week. Lawyer said at this point, we have to wait. And for my dad to still go into his interview- hope for a better outcome for him.
Any insight will be SO helpful. please help!