Sunday, August 28, 2016

September Letter US Waiver

Ok, I don't understand why are people so surprised that they will get into trouble if they admit to a U.S. Customs & Border Protection Officer that you have ever smoked a joint or possessed it? This is not even news. We deal with these cases all the time.

Now here is how this system is set up and works. If you "voluntarily" admit to smoking Marijuana, then you will be denied entry, receive a lifetime ban and will likely have to apply for a waiver for the rest of your life. You will not get a 2nd chance and you will suffer this fate and spend thousands of dollars over your lifetime. Plus, you may not be able to get a Green card in the future if you have a us entry waiver in general.

If you deny smoking a joint and they discover that this is false(like searching your phone or you "voluntarily" admit that you actually do smoke/have smoked), then you will get charged with a 6C Misrepresentation offence and will receive a lifetime ban and need a waiver.

Now by law, I cannot tell you to falsely state to CBP that you have not smoked a joint. However, I can explain to you how the system is designed, and you can then make your own "personal judgment call" and answer the question as you see fit in terms of your inner feelings and desires.

An example is that let's say that you just robbed the Abbotsford TD Bank and were speeding up Highway 1 from Abbotsford, B.C., Canada and you are enroute to Surrey, B.C. You get stopped for speeding at Langley exit 73 and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer asks you why you were speeding. You then voluntarily decide to tell him that you were speeding because you just robbed the local TD bank at gunpoint, and wanted to get home in a hurry to hide the money from the Abbotsford P.D. He then asks you if you have ever robbed a bank before, and you reply that you robbed the Surrey B.C. Bank of Montreal (BMO) last week. You also ask him not to tell Surrey or Abbotsford because they do not know. He calmly asks you how often you rob banks and you say 1-2 times a month. He then tells you that you are in trouble and you ask him why explaining that no one knows what you have done. What do you think he is going to do to you once you tell him? Lol

In this case, you will obviously get arrested, but the main point of the story is that you will get in trouble by voluntarily admitting to an offence that no one knows that you have committed. Marijuana is illegal by U.S. Federal Law and CBP is a federal law enforcement agency that enforces federal law. You would think it is simple and people would understand.  The sad truth is that we keep seeing these cases weekly at our Surrey location.

Yet apparently people don't understand that what you say to CBP can and will be used against you. A September Letter will permanently waive the particular criminal conviction that you may indeed have. However, there is a catch. You can lose this letter if you say or do the wrong thing when you deal with CBP. This should be obvious to most intelligent people. However, this may not necessarily be the case. 

Note that this is not an issue with our clients because they are provided with the proper training material and such to understand how the CBP data systems and laws are applied. Hence, they don't fall into this trap.

If done properly, you can have that September Letter last for the next 100 years. Obviously, you may not be around to fully enjoy it. The point is that you can indeed keep this letter for life and won't need another waiver (unless you reoffend or screw up). 

Now it seems that we are the only Canadian business that seems to know how to get these letters. We have a lot of jealous competitors that will say or do anything to slow us down. They (waiver/pardon companies) are also now under even more pressure now because the us entry waiver government application fee is going up to about $930us on deportation waivers. Also, apparently, they are now going to make 1st time waivers good for 5 years starting in 2017. This is terrible news for waiver companies that depend on heavy volume to remain in business. It doesn't apply to us because we have an astronomical number of current and new high-quality clients. We can easily absorb the shock, plus we have lower overhead because of our unique internal structure.

We do have September Letters that cover other offences than the sample. However, we do not post those because they are case-specific and may give the competitors an idea on how to obtain them for a particular offence. We only post this one because it is very general, and they won't be able to figure out how to obtain it. We get them for other offences besides the ones listed on the sample.  We have obtained them for drug possession though(select) and trying to get one for Marijuana possession. If those 4 are successful, then we will be able to get them for Marijuana possession. We won't know until next year though. We will keep you up to date.

So, the higher gov't fee combined with the fact that soon all first timers will receive five-year waivers may put a lot of waiver companies out of business, Plus, now the competition will be on even more to get new clients. On our main page, we list all of the services that we offer. These include writing your letters of ref for you, your letter of explanation, obtaining all relevant court files, case research, case prep, free digital fingerprints and much more. This will all be for one standard fee. No hidden costs.

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