Only a scammer would ask you to pay a fee in a strange way, such as through Western Union, PayPal, or even an iTunes gift card. Department of Homeland Security. There are some specific circumstances where you can use a credit card to pay USCIS fees, but you should never be asked to do so over the phone or in an email.
Webmaster uscis. Reporting an immigration scam will not affect your application, and can often be done anonymously. You can avoid unscrupulous notarios and other immigration scams by being vigilant and using common sense.
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Premium immigration support without the high price tag. Browse our services. Check out services. If you are in the United States illegally because you stayed past the expiration date on a valid visa, rather than having entered illegally without inspection , consider yourself lucky: Your legal entry qualifies you for an exception, under which you should be able to apply for your marriage-based green card without leaving the United States, using a procedure called " adjustment of status.
If, however, your most recent entry into the United States was illegal; for example, you crossed the U. That's the law's way of punishing people for unlawful entry. The exception is if you are covered by some very old laws, such as what's called "Section i " get a lawyer to analyze this. If you aren't eligible to use the adjustment of status procedure, you will have to attend the interview for your green card which is the last step in the application process at an overseas U.
However, at that point the consulate could penalize you for your illegal U. The penalty is either to spend three years outside the United States if you stayed in the U. If you haven't yet been in the United States illegally for six months or more, you might want to leave right away in order to make use of the consular processing possibility. If you have already spent more than six months in the United States illegally, talk to an immigration lawyer.
You might qualify for a "waiver," legal forgiveness, ideally on Form IA if no other grounds of inadmissibility are a hurdle in your case. A waiver would allow you to reenter the United States right away after your consular processing interview, but this waiver is hard to get. You would need to prove that your being denied the immigrant visa green card would cause extreme hardship to one or more of your U. Getting married to a lawful permanent U. That means you'd have to go through " consular processing " as described above, with all the risks that entails.
If you serve honorably and on active duty with the U. Armed Forces during one of the wars or conflicts named below, the law allows you to apply for U. You don't have to go through the usual step of applying for a green card first. You must, however, enlist sign up while on U. If you are arrested by U. Don't attempt to apply for cancellation of removal on your own. They do not have the resources to follow up on every tip they get.
They might simply ignore it. ICE agents are expected to follow a policy in which they take a closer look at each individual case and decide whether to exercise something called " Prosecutorial Discretion. The idea was that they are supposed to direct government resources at people who have committed crimes or present security risks or are otherwise negative forces in U. Even if ICE has already set court proceedings in motion, they can use Prosecutorial Discretion to close them; and in some cases even allow the person to obtain a work permit.
That takes us back to the question of whether ICE has the resources to act on any tip. It still doesn't. But as you no doubt realize, it's a game of chance at this point. After an arrest, you will most likely be charged with being deportable, released on bond, and then told to appear in Immigration Court on a certain day.
If you have any defenses to deportation, you can then ask for a full court hearing at a later date called a "Merits Hearing. This agency's history of making sure that children are cared for in such a situation is not great. Make sure your children know where to go and who to contact if you are not at home when expected.
It might be wise to consult an immigration attorney in advance about your situation, so that you have already lined up someone who can start acting on your behalf and figure out where you are being held.
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