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Got your I-194?
Reply here with how long it took. Months, weeks, days...
How is $500 a ridiculous fee for assistance in preparing docs?
Ken Scott's $1500 + (and up to 5K) might be ridiculous. $500 is chump change.
Then again ---- this is the day and age of the internet and people will argue and barter over $500 --- and haggle rudely with a poor guy in the street.... but happily pay $300 for a bottle of $30 vodka in bottle service.
John's info he has provided in this forum has already proven his fee is well worth the advice he can provide. You're just being downright vindictive and rude that he's responding you as he is.
Carry on.
You seem delusional. I am no expert and never claimed to be. I have restated this multiple times. You keep claiming you are an expert trying to gauge money out of people claiming how complicated it is to do a waiver when in reality it is not. If you look at a previous posts on this forum, you will find a link about DHS changing rules about first time waiver applications to 5 years in 2016.
My objective is to protect the public from you and your ridiculous fees. You can only resort to cursing in order to defend your points. You are a low life and nothing more. Go find a real job in order to feed your feed your children. Now this is a personal attack. I will not waste any more time on you. I believe people are smart enough to realize what you are.
Who cares wether I am Republican, Liberal or Democrat. You fail to see the point. This forum was not made for you to lure people into your money trap. It was made for people to stay clear from people such as yourself.
Now, go away!! Get the message
@948 MarcMath, another avenue you can try..is send a "trace" request to USA Customs asking about waiver, in it you must advise that you delivered your paperwork ....and mention the paid fee...they will respond advising a decision was sent out, you might be able to use that email as proof of payment for taxes..just saying???
@948 MarcMath, did you pay credit card? if so, you can just use statement for taxes..You can also go to the original POE that you delivered your paperwork, with your current waiver and they should be able to look up your A-file number and issue you a copy of the receipt..give that a try..
Samuel: That's a very bad experience. 10 year ban, very harsh.
MarcMath is looking for a copy of a $585 reciept from December 2017. He called me (we had met at Pearson Intl Airport) and I suggested he try this board here. He lost his receipt, paid for a waiver and simply wants to submit it for an expense report. But it needs to be from December 2017. Nothing underhanded here, he really did hand in his waiver, he simply lost the receipt.
Can anyone help him?
I received a 10 year bar/ban. I'm 2 1/2 years into that.
They held me in Secondary for about 4 hours and went through my luggage and everything.
I overstayed by a few days but didn't deserve a 10 year ban as I have driven back and forth across the border many times. One agent wanted to just let it go as he told me (basically his EXACT words here) "I'm from Ohio and one of the things that pisses me off about the US Immigration system is that when you drive across the border there's often no record of it." He then went on to tell me that he's driven across the border many a time where they don't even look at his passport and hence there's no record of him even crossing the border. He intimated that he found the US system quite broken. He was the only agent who treated me with respect and wanted to just let me get on my plane and go.
I actually had a friend who drove up from Spokane and she was let across the border with just her driver's license. She doesn't even have a passport AND THAT WAS LAST YEAR. That's crazy!
There was one agent who I have a history with - he stopped me back in 2005 when I had a visa to process and he pulled me into Secondary for 2 hours (I damn near missed the plane). He was so incredibly rude to me and seemed to have a hard time with some things - he basically didn't want to believe I had gone to the schools I had gone to (I went to some incredibly prestigious world class East Coast American universities)
and had my transcripts as part of my visa package. That seems to have upset him in some way.
Straight up he was simply a racist.
I tried to tell him that I believed my visa application was in order as I had an attorney prepare it and since I'm not an attorney I just had to trust that my attorney did the job properly. In no way was I rude to this agent. He told me that he had to make some notes in his computer about me and he eventually let me through after holding me for 2 hours.
I couldn't understand why he wanted to question my education as I needed student visas to go to school in America and they explicitly say which school and I'm sure that information was all in his computer anyway.
At any rate he was so incredibly mean and rude to me that I remembered his name.
Lo and behold he is the exact same agent who pulled me into Secondary in 2015 and banned me.
As I stated earlier one agent was willing to just let it pass. There were 3 agents there and 2 of them just were willing to let it go but then this mean and rude agent went and got his supervisor and got his supervisor involved and I just remember the supervisor just looking at me and saying out loud "Just bar him". The mean agent then seemed to take enormous pleasure in this and was all eager to take my sworn statement.
So there you have it.
HatsBootHats you say this:
“I just have a question to ask, do you declare your waiver earnings? I believe you have a company but what exactly do you charge your clients is a mystery to me. I don't believe you declare all of what you charge.
I believe people are knowledgeable enough to do their own waivers by declaring everything they can to strengthen their application.
Now let's focus on providing useful information and stop the personal attacks towards one other.”
Which is obviously a personal attack. But you claim that we should stop the personal attacks. But you have called me a 'discount waiver company' which sounds just as stupid form you as Ken Scott. You sound like some Republican idiot when you repeat stupid catchphrases.
“Just trying to see if you are as legit as you claim. Doing pardons and waivers are lucrative business for you I see.”
But as I pointed out, this is my real name. With a real Facebook account. A real business with a real location. that makes me ACCOUNTABLE, while you remain anonymous. I understand why others do it, because they are asking questions and providing person experiences. You are pretending to be some expert as well, while saying you are just helping someone with a visa. So whats your name then? Your quick to tell others they they don't need help, be accountable. Name?
And while I am calling you out on your bullshit, prove this:
“Backlogs were created in 2016 way before the terrorists attacks in France of 2015. DHS had released a statement in late 2016 about first time applicants getting 5 year waivers. With Trump in, a lot of clean up was done so waivers are back to 1 year. We might see 5 year waivers granted once more going forward for first time applicants.”
You should have no problem in finding a link to this statement if what you say is true. I call bullshit.
Why would I care about how attractive your children are? What strange things you ask? Just trying to see if you are as legit as you claim. Doing pardons and waivers are lucrative business for you I see.
Backlogs were created in 2016 way before the terrorists attacks in France of 2015. DHS had released a statement in late 2016 about first time applicants getting 5 year waivers. With Trump in, a lot of clean up was done so waivers are back to 1 year. We might see 5 year waivers granted once more going forward for first time applicants.
Like I said, stop with the personal attacks and use this forum to actually help out people. Don't start bragging about how good your reputation is and how great you are at making waivers. You don't look professional at all.
@HatsBootsHats, John Rogers, Ken Scott, yes, I will confirm that waivers last year were all 5 years, it did not matter if it was first time or renewals. Then they stopped, and went back to 1 year for a short time...right now I am in my renewal season, so 5 years is where I am at...In the summer is when I start seeing new waivers roll in..so will keep you posted on those times..
@Samuel, a review panel is requested by US Customs, after a waiver application has been submitted and they want an assessment done by one of their doctors. So far my cases have only had this happen, with Sexual Assaults and Attempted Murder, this includes charges that were conditional discharges, withdrawn, stay of proceedings and not guilty due to various reasons. Also I have had clients who had waivers, then re-offended, were convicted, have been asked to do Panel Review Assessment when they renewed their waiver. This is my experience, and others may not have had these issues with their clients.
Client must book an appointment with one of the Panel Review Doctors provided by US Customs, and attend their office, an assessment is done, and results are sent to US Customs direct. Some of my clients were then told they did not pass the assessment to the satisfactory of US Customs and were denied their application. This is all additional cost and can be a very costly and lengthy (up to 3 years) process.
John Rogers or Ken Scott, please add to this if you wish...Thanks!
Michelle
Samuel, its a very valid question, but because I live and work in Brampton, and am near Toronto, black clients and south asian clients are really common. I do watch carefully to see who is rejected, but I have not noticed a pattern broken down by race, moreso by offences. I will let ZMichelle answer about 'Review Panel Assessment" so i am not hogging all the answers.
I don't think it will play a part in the adjudication of your waiver, but its way too much of a fluke that black men were all being pulled in at Clagary airport on the same day.
1. Could have been an alert was out for a black male between the ages of so and so and so and so that day
2. Racism can be very unconscious. This is the big debate about racism isn't it. People think you can only be racist consciously. Officers are pulling in 'suspicious males' but when the numbers are tallied, realized that 'suspicious' equated more times to 'not white' than white, thats unconscious racism. They don't even realize they are doing it.
HatsBootsHats
“You and I know that nobody knows what the agent that works at Homeland Security or USCIS is thinking when he looks at waivers. Five year waivers right off the bat are not common. We saw a trend last year because of backlogs but right now 1 year waivers seem to be the norm once more.”
This statement is WRONG. 5 year waivers right off the bat ARE common right now. They stopped for about a month, which coincided with John Kelly taking over Homeland Security for a short time. I posted about that here in this forum actually. Then back to 5 years. The backlog was created by the bombings in France by the way. It had no bearing on the length of time waivers were being given for. Could you give some proof of your claims? Ken and Michelle can both chime in about what they are seeing in terms of length of times for first time waiver applicants.
My company does Pardons and Waivers. I have a set price list. Most people pay by credit card or debit. Some even try and write the expense off, or get their company to pay for it. There isn't a lot of wiggle room to evade taxes. Weird allegation. Since I pointed out where you were wrong and I have a public Facebook profile I assume you will next point out I don't have attractive children or something. Challenge my age?
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