Well vlad aparently his immigration lawyer is an idiot then, because when I asked him about it he said that he could not have “legally” payed taxes without some form of valid identification which he did not have, and that if he had before he was going through the ringer to become legal it possibly would have gotten them tipped off sooner and that he would have been deported if my family did not sponsor him (We would not have put up 10g’s to sponsor him if we did not like him :rofl)
A short version of the story with my friend is… When he was 15-16 his parents sent him here to the states with friends, the family had gotten a passport for him telling them he was their son (now he knows how wrong that was but at the time he dident see the harm in it, I honestly don’t think he was planning on staying here at first, his dad was in a sort of “army” if you will and it was dangerous there at the time)
He ended up finding a job (yes under the table, but who hasent worked an under the table job at one point or another) and worked here obviously well past his Visa, he had contacted a local immigration lawyer and gave her a ridiciulous ammount of money to file the paperwork he needed to stay here legally.
Now to be honest I doubt he knew if at all he could get a Tax ID if you will before the Govt knew he was here, and even if he did im sure he was worried that something might happen to him if he had set this up and maybe would have been deported on the spot, shit I’d be afraid of that too.
Anyways, eventually this “lawyer” had stopped contacting him and he could not get ahold of her. He and his ex girlfriend got into a fight and she tipped off Immigration that he was here, they STORMED into his apartment, it was nuts to be honest, cant belive it went down as fast/hard as it did for something so minor IMO.
Upon going to immigration they could not find a single piece of info about him or if any papers had been filed etc. He aparently is not the first immigrant this woman has ripped off, who are they going to tell right? All he had was some BS card with a fake name and phone number that no longer worked.
Now he has a legit immigration lawyer, currently does have a tax ID for his buisness in which he pays taxes through etc…
Vlad im not trying to start a pissing match, this is just what I have seen and heard with my own eyes from being right in the immigration court in Buffalo to which I have made the trip a few times, and my father has been there 5 times so far.
Yess they make you drive all the way to buffalo from here to spend anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 hours in the courtroom.