{"id":1093,"date":"2021-12-13T22:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T04:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2021-12-13T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T04:24:21","slug":"immigration-success-stories-ina-212a2ci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Success Stories \u2013 INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Immigration Success Stories \u2013 INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In January of 2018 a Hollywood talent agency informed us that one of their clients applied for a visa nearly six months ago and after a lengthy delay due to administrative processing was just refused pursuant to INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i).\u00a0 We spoke to their client and learned that during his interview, the Consular officer repeatedly questioned his work, his contacts, and made numerous inquiries about his previous manager.\u00a0 We agreed to take the case.<\/p>\n<p>Our client assured us that he was never a drug trafficker and he wasn&#8217;t associated with anyone who was.\u00a0 He speculated that the Embassy believed that his previous manager was involved.\u00a0 Winning a INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i) case is complicated because of the &#8220;reason to believe&#8221; standard.\u00a0 The Embassy may refuse a visa under INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i) if he or she has a reason to believe the visa applicant is or has been a trafficker or an abettor of a trafficker.<\/p>\n<p>After petitioning the Embassy for further information we were able to learn that they believed our client&#8217;s former manager was a drug trafficker and because our client was paid through his manager, their position was that our client was involved.\u00a0 After an extensive fact finding mission, we were able to prove that our client was not involved in drug trafficking in any capacity and we were able to have the charge completely removed from his record.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, we helped the talent agency sponsor this actor for a <a href=\"https:\/\/messersmithlaw.com\/o1-visa\/\">O1 visa<\/a> and at his next appointment with the Embassy everything went smoothly and he was able to enter the US without any further issue.\u00a0\u00a0Do you have a similar inadmissibility issue?\u00a0 If so,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/messersmithlaw.com\/immigration-lawyer\/\">contact our office<\/a>\u00a0and we\u2019ll see if we can correct this for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration Success Stories \u2013 INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i) In January of 2018 a Hollywood talent agency informed us that one of their clients applied for a visa nearly six months ago and after a lengthy delay due to administrative processing was just refused pursuant to INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i).\u00a0 We spoke to their client and learned that during his &#8230; <a title=\"Immigration Success Stories \u2013 INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=1093\" aria-label=\"Read more about Immigration Success Stories \u2013 INA 212(a)(2)(c)(i)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-212a2ci","category-success-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}