Summer Work and Travel Scandal at US Embassy in Moscow

Posted on April 28, 2013

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/us-embassy-slams-door-on-student-workers/478125.html

Tags:214(b)Consular Officers Department of State Summer Work and Travel US Embassy Moscow

Case Studies

More than 20 years ago H agreed to a nolo contendre plea to a battery-related charge. The statute under which he was convicted was broad: allowing for a conviction even for mere touching, not just violence, injury, or intent to injure. Federal case law was also on H’s side, holding that this was not a crime of moral turpitude. But no one at the Embassy cared to go into any details: over the course of 20 years, the Embassy continually, automatically denied his visa under Section 212(a)(2)(A)(i)(I); throughout all those years, according to the Embassy, he needed a nonimmigrant waiver to travel to the US. H didn’t think too much about it — until his waiver requests were denied and his family members in the US needed him to visit. That’s when he reached out to us, and we challenged the permanent bar decision, arguing that his conviction was not for a crime of moral turpitude. After a 3-month review process, the 2AiI decision was removed. Now, after 20 lost years, H no longer needs a waiver to travel to the United States.

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