Thread: CO-Durango Man Fights For Wife

Durango Man Fights For Wife




Durango man fights for wife
by Dale Rodebaugh

Monday, January 04, 2010 1:50AM

Anyone who enters or lives in the United States illegally - no matter the reason - easily may run afoul of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Durango resident Niels Schroeder is battling the inflexibility of ICE regulations while trying to get his wife back to the United States. The reason for her deportation: A change of address form was not filed.

Schroeder, who is a marketing associate at Sysco Food Services, hasn't shared the same roof in La Plata County with his Brazilian wife, Elisangela, since May 2005 when she made what the couple thought was going to be a short trip to the old country to visit her family.

Schroeder was stopped at the airport in Brazil on her return, her husband said. According to immigration records, she had been in the United States illegally from April 2004 until the following May when she flew to Brazil.

The period as an “undocumented alien" occurred because the couple moved from Farmington to Albuquerque without filing a change of address, Schroeder said.

As a result, Elisangela Schroe-der missed the interview that would have granted her permanent residency, her husband said. An “extreme hardship" appeal failed, he said.

Now, Niels Schroeder, 35, flies a couple of times a year to visit his wife, 33, in Vinhedo, near São Paulo, where she works in a retail store. In between trips he works with immigration attorneys and on his own to find a way around the 10-year waiting period she faces to reapply for entry to the United States.

daler@durangoherald.com


http://durangoherald.com/sections/News/ ... _for_wife/

So, ICE is now supposed to be every applicants secretary and take care of applicants change of address cards? Screw you lady. If you can't manages something as important as your own immigration interview, I don't want you in my country. What an airhead.

Isn't the system supposed to select out the idiots?

As a result, Elisangela Schroe-der missed the interview that would have granted her permanent residency, her husband said. An “extreme hardship" appeal failed, he said.


And what "extreme hardship" exists exactly? I notice they conveniently left that out.......

Now, Niels Schroeder, 35, flies a couple of times a year to visit his wife, 33, in Vinhedo, near São Paulo, where she works in a retail store. In between trips he works with immigration attorneys and on his own to find a way around the 10-year waiting period she faces to reapply for entry to the United States


Always looking for a way to "get around" the law, aren't they?

For all of the money he's spending on this, why doesn't he just pack up and move to Brazil?

I'm sure that with his work experience he could find something on an international scale......