One lady's husband has died and been given 30 days to leave the US and the other lady

[Susie]

Hi

I thought this could not happen to my family but it did and horrified to learn that I have just heard about the plight of two other ladies

The first lady was a beneficiary of her husbands E visa, he has recently passed away and she has been given 30 days to leave the USA. She has a business to sell, probate to go through and no children in the USA or other family members to help her

The other lady also runs a business and is also currently nursing her terminally ill husband

Something must be done to be able to issue urgent compassionate visa's so family members can come an stay in the USA for as long as needed to give support to their loved ones. This visa should have some work autho as people would have to leave their jobs abroad for who knows how long and need a means to help support themselves. There should also be a provision to adjust status to LPR if this is whats in the best interest of the families concerned

I will be contating the Senators and Congressmen about these cases. I am so angry !

[JulieC]

This happened also to the L2 wives of those who died in 9/11 It took a change in the law to allow them to stay but only for deaths through terrorism. You can overstay 180 days without getting a bar, I dont think they would forcibly remove her after 30 days??

[Grumpy]

Hi

This is a disgusting way to treat people. I bet when the lady got the letter or news she had to leave the USA it did not say she could overstay up to 180 days.

If they can change the law due to deaths by terroists then they should change the law to protect any human being from this stress

I think this law only applies to USC's who are killed by terrorists and not the petitioner who is a LPR, but I may be wrong

[Kriz1]

Its just 10 days with an H1B and job loss...and unless a lot of people get laid off it is just the 10 days...not the same as a death mind you...but still a shock because lay offs come out the blue...

[chris]

I agree wholeheartedly that the system is a shambles and a disgrace both in terms of a first league world nation but also in the treatment of people. I would guess even third world countries do not act like that.
Having said that I do believe that when you have reached the point that a country treats you with the disdain that the US does, does it really matter that you may overstay your order to leave so as to put your affairs in order. Having left such a place, would you really want to ever return? Personally I don't think so. For my own situation as a visa holder, I have always said that once I was rejected on renewal that was the USA saying 'you are no longer welcome'. I would then take my own sweet time to put my affairs in order and then leave, never to darken the shores again. I realise that bereavement is a much difficult situation, because it is usually unplanned and a different set of human emotions are involved, but nonetheless hold your head up high.

[Susie]

Hi Chris

I do agree with you and sometimes feel that # to hell with the system # run up debts and return to my homeland. The trouble is my family is and has been torn apart for over 5 years (through no fault of our own) and would still be torn if I returned

Should I ever decide to go back to the UK to be with my separated son then I will still be torn as one of my children is now married to a USC and the other son has been dating his USC girlfriend for quite some time and loves the lifestyle and has so many friends here.

As you can see I am torn between the countries now and more so if I return to the UK and why it is so important to continute to fight to get my family reunited.

[chris]

I agree and totally sympathise with your dilemma. Whichever way you go you're divided. It's a heads you lose, tails you lose scenario. Clearly the only way you can get satisfaction is to have your UK son in the US with you and stay together as a family unit.
For some of the other bereavement cases that have been mentioned, I believe one lady is basically alone in the US with her terminally ill husband. That is a very sad situation, but if she has no UK family at all, the situation would be the same as in the UK, only the location is different. That still doesn't alter the terrible personal situation though.
It does trouble me intensely about the attitudes of the US Government these days. The USA has traditionally always had a welcoming kind hearted attitude to people, but they are now every hard and uncaring indeed these days. It is not the same country that I came to in 2000. Yes the US suffered in 911, but lets not forget that other nationalities died that day as well, including a good many Brits. We have our own 911 in 7/7, but I do not think that has altered the British view (apart from the inlfux of Eastern Europeans). America has changed for the worse.
For many years I had a career as a UK civil servant, but saw the light and got out. The one thing that was clear though was that although the politicians make the laws, it is the bureaucrats who operate and interpret them and that I feel is where the problem lies. It is not the politicians, but the bureaucrats who tend to be unbending, uncaring and insensitive. If a civil servant wants to make life hard, they will interpret those rules to the nth degree. That's the main problem area.

[mark]

Hi Chris

I could not agree more.

If there was a competion to see who is the # Top jos worth person # between Traffic cops in the USA, immigration officers, or Uk traffic wardens

The US immigration officers would get my vote