If I am indicted in a criminal case, but not convicted, will it affect my ability to renew my green card? (I'm here legally on a 10 year green card)
The facts definitely matter and it will need to be disclosed when you renew your green card but generally - very generally - an arrest without a conviction doesn't impact a renewal (although it could impact an application for citizenship).
Can you be arrested, to assist in further investigation, but not indicted?
If you are arrested but not indicted, how does it affect immigration?
As a self-employed Canadian I recently interviewed with a startup based in the U.S and received an offer. I'd be invoicing them, and they'd be paying a fixed monthly rate into my corporate account. They rescinded their offer, citing what I think is just a scapegoat, which was they they spike to their lawyer and concluded that the nature of the relationship was too close to employment, and would leave them liable unde…
I haven't seen that and I've seen very close contractual relationships between Canadian contractors and US companies but unfortunately because this concerns Canadian law, I can't comment.
The facts definitely matter and it will need to be disclosed when you renew your green card but generally - very generally - an arrest without a conviction doesn't impact a renewal (although it could impact an application for citizenship).
Can you be arrested, to assist in further investigation, but not indicted? If you are arrested but not indicted, how does it affect immigration?
Because the ultimate legal issue is not whether one was convicted but whether one committed acts that would be considered criminal and so one could be arrested and not convicted or not even arrested at all but the record shows - or they inadvertently admitted - that they committed the elements of a crime. While it's rare that USCIS goes behind an arrest that didn't lead to a conviction, it can and sometimes does.
I’m a Canadian software engineer but my degree is in law (I’m a self-taught developer). Do people in my situation manage to get H1B or TN visas despite not having a technical degree?
Why is the Lincoln Processing Center moving so slowly in processing I-485s? It's issuing roughly 80 GCs a day whereas MSC is issuing in the order of 1000s.