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High everyone,
I wasn’t sure if this was the correct spot to post, but I figured I’d try.
My immigration journey has been such a struggle and still is currently that way. I was brought over to the US by the New Life 4 Kids organization based in Haiti as a sickly 5 year old child in 1996. Work was done to get me to a hospital here in the US for an emergency surgery (I’m not sure exactly the specifics of the surgery).
During the transition period, documents were written up and signed that lead to my biological parents signing abandonment papers, and giving other people rights to take care of me while I was being medically cared for. I was granted a humanitarian visa and passport which was supposed to last about 1 year, enough time for me to heal and then apparently go back to Haiti. Somewhere during the transition process more documents were made up and signed for the beginning processes of the adoption phase by American families, I was already in the US when this phase was taking place. Unfortunately, with the many attempts to have me adopted by multiple families, all attempts were unsuccessful due to policies with foreign adoptions in Haiti. Somewhere along this time frame, my humanitarian visa had expired as well as my visa a while later.
So with the many unsuccessful attempts, I was placed under legal guardianship of the few families I was moved around to until the age of 18. With lack of knowledge about my own immigration issues at the age of 18, I had left the household of the last family I lived with and therefore was without any legal status.
When 2010 came around, I was in my sophomore year of high school and had been living with some school friends. The friends’ parents along with some of the school board helped me to establish Temporary Protected Status designated for Haiti. There was at the time lack of understanding on what benefits i’d be able to have with the status, but that it would let me work and i’d at least have a legal status.
I had and still do not have any relatives who live in the US who are US citizens or who even have a Green Card. I had gone to college, but do not have an advanced degree (other than an associates) with an advanced field of work. Going to college itself was challenging because I did not qualify for the Federal funding for college.
I am a single 30 year old man with not even a girlfriend, and marriage, according to the slight few immigration attorneys i’ve spoken too, is my best option to proceed for establishing a green card. I do not believe in nor do I want to risk any false marriage.
So I’m looking for an attorney who will be able to look closely at my case and be able to take this to an immigration judge.
I wasn’t sure if this was the correct spot to post, but I figured I’d try.
My immigration journey has been such a struggle and still is currently that way. I was brought over to the US by the New Life 4 Kids organization based in Haiti as a sickly 5 year old child in 1996. Work was done to get me to a hospital here in the US for an emergency surgery (I’m not sure exactly the specifics of the surgery).
During the transition period, documents were written up and signed that lead to my biological parents signing abandonment papers, and giving other people rights to take care of me while I was being medically cared for. I was granted a humanitarian visa and passport which was supposed to last about 1 year, enough time for me to heal and then apparently go back to Haiti. Somewhere during the transition process more documents were made up and signed for the beginning processes of the adoption phase by American families, I was already in the US when this phase was taking place. Unfortunately, with the many attempts to have me adopted by multiple families, all attempts were unsuccessful due to policies with foreign adoptions in Haiti. Somewhere along this time frame, my humanitarian visa had expired as well as my visa a while later.
So with the many unsuccessful attempts, I was placed under legal guardianship of the few families I was moved around to until the age of 18. With lack of knowledge about my own immigration issues at the age of 18, I had left the household of the last family I lived with and therefore was without any legal status.
When 2010 came around, I was in my sophomore year of high school and had been living with some school friends. The friends’ parents along with some of the school board helped me to establish Temporary Protected Status designated for Haiti. There was at the time lack of understanding on what benefits i’d be able to have with the status, but that it would let me work and i’d at least have a legal status.
I had and still do not have any relatives who live in the US who are US citizens or who even have a Green Card. I had gone to college, but do not have an advanced degree (other than an associates) with an advanced field of work. Going to college itself was challenging because I did not qualify for the Federal funding for college.
I am a single 30 year old man with not even a girlfriend, and marriage, according to the slight few immigration attorneys i’ve spoken too, is my best option to proceed for establishing a green card. I do not believe in nor do I want to risk any false marriage.
So I’m looking for an attorney who will be able to look closely at my case and be able to take this to an immigration judge.
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