Info regarding immigration to the U.S.A.?

Question

Hi everybody. I'm currently married to an American citizen. I live in the uk. We got married in Los Angeles. My wife has started my immigration process, but the sad thing is, i was given a caution when i was 17 years old, two months before my birthday. I was also arrested for taking my fathers car, without no insurance and licence, which i was involved in a car accident. I was 18 for this offense and i was taken to court. I was given a probation order for 1 year, 60 hours of community service, disqualified from driving for two years and two fines for driving without insurance and licence. Ever since then i have been clean and i wanted to know if this sentence has been cleared or spent. Is there possible way if they can forgive me for what i've done??? Because now i know US embassy can reject my application cause of this. I applied for my PNC check and they still appear on there. Can anyone help me on this matter??? What can I do?

Answer 1

If it is an issue, then you can file a I-601 petition to have that conviction excluded from your immigration file.  Chances are good it will succeed, because it is minor, and you haven't committed any other crimes..

http://www.uscis.gov/i-601 is where you find the form.

Answer 2

My guess is that the car theft counts as a crime of moral turpitude.  You most likely need a Waiver of Inadmissibility (I-601) as a part of your immigration package.

Ask a consular officer at the US embassy.

**************Your chances, since you've been fine since age 18, are great.

Answer 3

You need to get copies of the court records and any police files that she exactly what happened. Where you get these depends on where you were convicted, Phone the courts and ask them who and where to write to then send letters outlining your convictions and asking for copies of any and all records. Keep copies of those letters to take with you when you go for interview.

At interview be totally honest, don't volunteer any details they don't ask for except that you were and are very ashamed of your behaviour and that you have grown up now. You may have been spending time with the wrong type of friends and have learned from your conviction to be more careful. This worked for me anyway.

They are looking for crimes of "moral turpitude" and yours doesn't look  like it qualifies but you will be asked about it. If you are a churchgoer a letter from your pastor stating your good character is unlikely to harm your case but I don't know if it will help.

If you do get refused it is possible for your wife to file a waiver showing hardship to her if she was forced to move to the UK with you.

Go to http://www.visajourney.com for more help and support, this subject has come up there before and there should be people there with experience who can tell you what they did. Good Luck.