by AnnaS » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:13 pm
Hi, Kirk--I hope you can get some pro bono legal help to help you unravel this absurd snafu.
Maybe somebody already suggested this upthread, but I would also consider contacting your Congresscritter or Senators. They have staff for working on exactly this kind of issue, and particularly since it's a multiple-state problem, it may be something that congressional staff can resolve more easily than a lawyer could.
I worked with immigrants for many years and I can tell you that such human rights issues or humans-caught-in-the-paperwork problems often do go to a representative's office and get resolved there. And more recently, when I have attended our local congressman's town hall meetings, all politics aside, he brings several staff members to each meeting and they stay afterwards helping individuals with problems like this. Our region has a lot of small family farmers, and they get caught in all kinds of ridiculous paperwork problems (and they can't afford lawyers, either) and I have listened to them discussing these problems in detail with attentive staffers.
So I would urge you to contact any or all of these offices and ask to speak to a staffer who can help with this type of problem. It's your right to ask for this help. You'll want to get the problem summarized fairly well before talking with them--that's where some pro bono help locally might be useful to you, getting the problem articulated clearly and succinctly...hard to do when you're in the middle of it yourself.
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