The zero tolerance policy of the CBP has caught another in its net. This time a university teacher from the Indiana University South Bend.
As the reporter of this article correctly points out, Gill will have to leave the US in order to apply for the waiver, but they incorrectly go on to say that the waiver process could take 3 to 6 months (how about 9 to 12 months?). Hopefully this sort of attention within the US can help the movement to bring about support for making much needed and sensible changes to section 212(a).
The clock is ticking for Stephen R. Gill.You can read the full article here: IUSB teacher deported?
"Come Jan. 8, if there's no resolution, I'll be going back to Canada. I have no choice," said Gill, 61, who until June worked as an IUSB adjunct lecturer in English.
...Gill went to the U.S. Customs & Border Protection station near Detroit each year for the renewal. He had no problem until June 11 of this year. For the first time, a border agent asked him: "Have you ever been arrested?"
Gill said he panicked and said "no." With the arrest so long in his background and details hazy, he said he had begun to doubt his own memories of the incident.
The agent confronted Gill with evidence of his 1964 arrest. "At that point, I was speechless. It had turned up after 43 years," he said.
As the reporter of this article correctly points out, Gill will have to leave the US in order to apply for the waiver, but they incorrectly go on to say that the waiver process could take 3 to 6 months (how about 9 to 12 months?). Hopefully this sort of attention within the US can help the movement to bring about support for making much needed and sensible changes to section 212(a).
South Bend man gets reprieve on deportation to Canada (http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/13530392.html)
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