Deportation laws for permante resident for a class c misdeamor?

Question

i have been in the u.s. all my life and just recently i commited a crime for shop lifting.... i was given the green card for two years and now i'm up for review will i get deported.

Answer 1

If you are sentenced to probation of less than 12 months you should be ok. Otherwise ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)  would have come looking for you. There is also the possbility they may start reviewing you all over again even after getting your 10yr greencard if you travel out of the country and the man or woman that inspects you on arrival sends you for secondary inspection. A friend  with greencard for over 20years  was once revieved for a 1988 plea in 2008. Thank God for the Supreme court that ruled  USCIS cannot deport you for offence commited before 1996 and you plead guilty before congress changed the law.

You ae safe only when you naturalize so naturalize at your first opportunity 3 yrs if you are married to a citizen  or in the military  , 5yrs if you are not.

Answer 2

You are not clear as to why your green card is only for two years? Are you a conditional resident? If so, when you go to court on the SHoplifting charge, you should try your best to have it "continued without a finding".  If this is the only criminal offense you have, you will be ok. As a legal permanent resident of the US, only an Immigration Judge can determine if your green card will be taken away. You should forget about your life of crime and do yor best to live a productive life.

Answer 3

Get an immigration lawyer immediately for

advice on that to save yourself from being deported.

Answer 4

With a good lawyer you can work around any law. It really depends on where you are. The north will not be as bad to you as the deep south.

Answer 5

Not a citizen, but been here your entire life and have a green card.  Yes, you could be deported because shoplifting is a serious offense.  We are trying to keep the criminals out and you just showed that you were one by your reckless ace.  Sorry.

Answer 6

It is less likely result the deportation since your crime doesn't fall into the Moral Turpitude, but misdemeanor. Although you will have some difficult time at the interview if you have to remove the condition to get 10 year green card.

Hire an attorney to reduce your charge and sentence as less as possible, if you have still time until the court schedule. Good luck!

Answer 7

Even the most drastic of immigration consequences can result from convictions that are only misdemeanors. Many misdemeanor convictions could be classified as “aggravated felonies” under immigration law (this is the case even though the offenses were neither “aggravated” nor “felonies”).

Larceny and theft, whether petty or grand, have uniformly been held to involve moral turpitude.

Non-citizens may be removed from the country if they are “convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude committed within five years . . . after the date of admission, and [are] convicted of a crime for which a sentence of one year or longer may be imposed.”

If the non-citizen who has pled to a crime of moral turpitude is ever to leave the country, and try to return, the CBP could

prevent him or her from re-entering the United States because of the conviction of a crime of moral turpitude, even if the person is a lawful permanent resident.

Answer 8

Actually, shoplifting is officially considered a crime of moral turpitude, as strange as that may seem. A single conviction won't usually get you deported depending of the length of the sentence and that may depend on just how expensive that trinket you tried to lift was. 2 shoplifting convictions will get you deported, so consider that. Otherwise you'll have to convince your American spouse what a wonderful country you're from.