Case of A.Z.

A’s adult children were in the US, with one of them a US citizen. Her US citizen son filed an immigrant petition for her. After the approval, A went to her immigrant visa interview — and that’s when her problems started. She was found inadmissible under Section 212(a)(2)(A)(i)(I) for convictions for crimes she claimed that she did not commit. She then contacted us. We argued that her convictions were not for crimes of moral turpitude: one was for a corporate governance violation, the other for negligence. After a long review, the Department of State agreed and removed the inadmissibility. Weeks later, the consular officer issued the IR5 immigrant visa, enabling A to join her children in the United States.