Re-entry to the USA 6 years after a 5-year ban (deportation)?
I am looking for some advice and hope I can find it here.
I have overstayed my visa in October 2011. I was involved in a minor car accident and found that ICE has a hold on me and got deported to Germany (I am a German national). I have now been living and working in the UK for the last six years.
I would like to apply for a visa, but online it says I need to submit the documents of removal (deportation). I however do not have them as I was so upset and threw them away, and never planned to visit again after the experience of deportation.
Now I do wish I could visit again and many people I know are getting married in the US and I would like to be able to attend.
What can I do?
Best Answer
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provides specific information on how to file an FOIA request relating to an alien file.
Unless otherwise noted below, mail or fax all requests to USCIS records, including alien files and procurement information, to the National Records Center.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
National Records Center, FOIA/PA Office
P.O. Box 648010
Lee's Summit, MO 64064-8010USCIS Contact Center: 800-375-5283 or TTY 800-767-1833
Fax: 802-288-1793 or 816-350-5785
uscis.foia@uscis.dhs.gov
It also provides a lengthy PDF file with specific guidance.
Note in particular the detailed explanation around proving your identity: the fast and cheap option seems to be to write and sign a document giving your full name, current address, date and place of birth, alien registration number if known, and declaration under penalty of perjury; and then to scan it and send it by e-mail.
Note also the fee schedule: you will be charged, although if the fees exceed $25 (which looks unlikely for a simple request: the more specific you can be about the document you require, the better) you will be told how much they will be and can choose whether to accept them or not.
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Answer 2
File a FOIA request for your deportation records either yourself or through an attorney (and don't throw them away again).
Not all deportation and exclusion records survive. If, however, the event occurred after 1892 there is a chance records may still exist.
Deportation is the removal of an alien already in the United States Exclusion is the refusal of admission by a Board of Special Inquiry
On April 1, 1944, the INS began filing all enforcement paperwork in Alien Files(or A-files), single files that included all records of a specific alien. If a researcher believes the deportation took place in April 1944 or later he or she can obtain an A-file number by:
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