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Re: I - 485,, Background check !!!!! Any help... Posted on: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:18:50 +0000


> [QUOTE=Bokovza]> > 2 FYIs:
>
> Who understands this process?
>
> One of my ex colleagues in Toronto is a Cuban born Canadian.
>
> On December 2004 he left Canada for the US; entered the Country as a
> tourist with his Canadian Passport; he was given only 15 days stay
> (immigration officers may have suspected about his intentions); of
> course he overstayed and started working. On January 2006 he filed the
> adjustment of status form; fingerprints, medicals, everything was so
> fast. On May 2006 he received the Green Card (no, not a paper stating
> that his application had been approved but the Green Card itself).
>
> I couldn't believed it; he said he would scan the GC and email it to
> me; I said OK I believe it. I can neither explain nor understand why
> sometimes the process is so fast and sometimes it can get you crazy.

This information is correct. However, it has nothing to do with his
being a Canadian or getting married to an American. It is because he has
a Cuban passport and was born in Cuba. USA has a law that any Cuban
citizen who reaches USA soil legally or illegally is automatically a USA
PR. of course they have to clear the criminal background checks, etc.
Many people from Cuba just take a boat and sail to USA. If they reach
the USA land, then they are American PR. If they are stopped at sea,
they have to go back to Cuba. As soon as your friend was able to enter
the USA (even though he did it using his Canadian passort) he became an
American PR. He could have just walked across the land border illegally
at any point and he would still have become the USA PR immediately just
based on his Cuban birth certificate and Cuban passport.

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