Call your Congressperson and U.S. Senator as well. That's what they are there for.
My case involves three distinct and separate issues. We approached three different pro bono law firms and one which we heard from had won a case involving an illegal alien who had been working illegally when he suffered a stroke. He accumulated over $110,00 in hospital debt which Ada County in ID refused to pay. The law firm took the case to court and won so we approached them. We received a letter from them advising they were only interested in representing cases which were in the “national and public” interest although their website advocates they believe in upholding the Constitution.
I arrived in this country legally on a K-1 (Fiancee) Visa on July 23, 2002 and married my husband July 26, 2002 and have lived here ever since. We began the paperwork towards obtaining a green card for me but ran into the unexpected expense of a series of chest x-rays ordered by the doctor because I had had a positive tb test over 30 years ago when I came into contact with a girl in grade 12 who had tb. If someone has had a positive tb test they must have a series of chest x-rays. The money which was spent on those x-rays was to have been spent for the green card and now the price has gone from $400 up to $930 plus the biometric fingerprint fee, travel to and from the immigration center in MT and other related costs which come to a total cost of $3000. My husband is on Social Security.
I was enrolled in a specific program for under and uninsured women funded by the federal government and when the intake woker contacted me the first thing I told her was that I did NOT have a green card but I had entered the country legally following all the proper laws and procedures and waiting for two years before being allowed entry. She phoned me back two hours later to advise me I had been enrolled. When I went to the mobile van I again advised them I had entered the country legally but did NOT have a green card. Since then it has been an absolute nightmare (I have been called a liar threatened with deportation by a bureaucrat who relates a K-1 Visa with a tourist Visa and the Director of the Dept had advised the holder of a K-1 Visa is only allowed into the U,S, for 90 days to marry a U.S. citizen... he read it on the internet so it must be right), not to mention that bureaucrats with the Dept of Health and Welfare haven’t got a clue about the asbestos laden vermiculite insulation used in homes which people were exposed to. I lived in one of those homes for 14 years and vacuumed up the insulation daily and my boys thought the pellets were something pretty neat to play with. My husband has gone in to speak with the news director of the local tv station today to see if they would be willing to do a news story on the issue and our Senator is working hard on the issue as well. Wide stance Craig couldn’t be bothered since we were just a lone vote and not big money from big ag business.