Beware of This Scam Against Immigrants in the United States: They Get Work Permits That Could Cost You Deportation

Migrants beware: be very careful about a practice that is usually as common as it is dangerous when applying for a work permit in the United States.

There are notaries, or bogus notaries, who mislead immigrants by offering them “help” to get a work permit.

The person who needs it pays in the end. Sometimes it’s $1,000. After some time the work permit arrives and the migrant is “grateful” and starts recommending it manager neighbours, friends or relatives. Everyone cancels the $1,000 in the same way.

However, what the migrants are not aware of is what the notary has actually done and that is what Julio Oyhanarte, a lawyer specializing in immigration issues, warns against.

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What that notary did was he took the case of that immigrant to court, but to apply for asylum.

“In other words, they put him before a deportation court and asked him for asylum, an asylum for which he does not qualify and, even worse, he never found out that anyone asked for it,” says the lawyer.

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He explains that the trial is ongoing, that the person will never appear in court – because he didn’t find out – and that one day he will lose (the trial) because he didn’t go and they will be deported . absenteeism due to failure to appear in court.

Likewise, they’re going to revoke that work permit you’ve had for a while.

“There are people who have had that work permit for a long time, without knowing why they have it, without knowing what is behind that document,” he says.

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The impact of this practice is great and has serious consequences: “If that person has recommended the alleged notary to the neighbor or relatives, What that notary puts everyone before the Deportation Court and everyone is deported from the countryno one finds out and everything becomes a terrible drama ”.

According to the lawyer, “Occasionally the FBI arrests a notary who does this, they find out and dismantle the gangs.”

(JO)