Reflections on a process
Krome Detention Center, Kendall Service Center, (multiple visits), Miramar ICE Office, Saint Albans Vermont Service Center, Fort Lee, Missouri (National Benefit Center), and the Miami Service Center are immigration offices that have been visited, corresponded with, or conducted interviews during a immigration process that began in 1988 and ended with a permanent resident card being received at my house on August 12, 2014.
Competent legal assistance, financial resources, or patience at certain times during the process would have completed the process without lying or gaming the system.
The Krome Detention Center was not a particularly pleasant place. It is a jail for folks that are charged violating immigration law and are waiting for their cases to be heard or are waiting for the logistics of deportations to be completed. Thankfully, it was a holiday and the guard at the front gate only searched the truck for explosives and gave us a piece of paper with an address in Miramar where a person could get information about their case. Columbus Day 2010, ironic for sure, but in a perverse way progress was made.
Competent legal assistance, financial resources, or patience at certain times during the process would have completed the process without lying or gaming the system.
The Krome Detention Center was not a particularly pleasant place. It is a jail for folks that are charged violating immigration law and are waiting for their cases to be heard or are waiting for the logistics of deportations to be completed. Thankfully, it was a holiday and the guard at the front gate only searched the truck for explosives and gave us a piece of paper with an address in Miramar where a person could get information about their case. Columbus Day 2010, ironic for sure, but in a perverse way progress was made.
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