Q: I went for an interview at USCIS with my wife and she got arrested during the interview.
After visiting her at the prison and speaking to the probation officer and got know she had violation in her probation even before we got married. The immigration has sent me a notice of another interview but I have not gotten date yet. My question is with my wife hidden all this from for a year and a half in our marriage,is it ok to continue with her and if I file for divorce base on trust because I might know what she's hiding from again. I am just confused and don't know what to do. Please I need advice on my issue especially my upcoming second immigration interview. What are my chances of, thanks.
A:
Sir, I'm sorry this has been so difficult for you and your wife.
When will she be released from prison? Can you postpone the interview until then?
The best advice I can give you is to find a good immigration lawyer. A couple suggestions: State Bar of Georgia in Atlanta has a free lawyer referral service. Google them and find the tel # and call them and ask them for a list of immigration lawyers in your county. Next suggestion, go to the website for American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), to which many immigration lawyers belong. The website is www.aila.org. Go there and look for "Find a Lawyer." You can set it by state and city (maybe county). Probably a good idea to look in the Atlanta area, even if you are somewhere else, because the interview will be in Atlanta.
You have several issues which you need to bring to the attention of the immigration lawyer. Not just that you have a pending immigration case, not just that your wife cannot attend, but that your wife apparently was not open with you about her past.
Find a lawyer on Monday, please.
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