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A Happy Ending

One of the things that I enjoy most about my job as an immigration attorney is seeing how our work changes people’s lives.   Recently, I had a particularly moving case that reminded me of how lucky I am to be doing what I do. A young lady came to see us a few weeks ago.   She was a United States Citizen who had successfully filed a visa petition for her husband.   Because he originally entered the United States without a visa, she had also filed a separate petition to forgive this offense.   Both were approved after she successfully established that she and her children would suffer extreme hardship if her husband were denied a visa to the United States.   About a year and a half ago, her husband went to the consulate in Mexico to receive his visa.   When he arrived he was told that the government had made a mistake and that instead of a visa he was going to receive a permanent bar from ever returning to the United States.   This young lady ...