2nd application questions

BackToUSA posted 1 year ago

I’m about a year away from my 5 year waiver expiring. Reluctantly I am going to reapply because the crap has to end sometime.

I know I have to have new fingerprints. Do I need to have court documents pulled again? Or can I just use the ones from before (no changes). Also I have a pardon now - do I just submit the pardon document I received along with the fingerprint results?

Because I did the pardon and waiver at the same time - I can’t remember if the local police check was needed for the pardon or the waiver - can someone tell me if it’s needed for the waiver?

I had letters of reference and a letter from myself as well. I will update mine - do I need to bother my friends again? One died so may need a new one.

Is the turnaround about 6 months now?

Any advice for reapplication would be great. I had a sucky company do it last time.

Thank you in advance!!!

Lonely 1 year ago

Yes you can submit the same court documents and pardon,The reference letters you need new ones and a nice letter from yourself.Reapplications are taking about 4 months.

J Rogers (trusted member) Trusted 1 year ago

Reapplications should be done about 4 months out at best (form when the other one expires) because they do not look at the date. If you do it too early, you simply get 2 waivers, and the old one becomes useless.

Court can be re-used. They will probably ask you for privacy act fingerprints, (in addition to the regular ones) but they give you 87 days if they do.

Update your personal letter as well.

djeter 10 months ago

About to reapply- have a 1 year waiver now. (admitted to cannabis use 3 years ago, so recent).

With cannabis moved to schedule 3, will waivers for cannabis possession inadmissibility (and no other crimes) be looked with any leniency? Of course, the inadmissibility still applies, but hoping they get more lenient with such inadmissibilities and grant 5 year waivers for reapplications, given the softening attitudes of federal USA.

J Rogers (trusted member) Trusted 10 months ago

@djeter Great question, but the problem is still the same. Schedule 3 (I am pretty sure) still requires a prescription, so the question becomes, "do they change how they look at the offence (where there obviously was no prescription)" or "treat it like it was back at the time when the person was convicted?"

We won't know unless we suddenly get RESULTS that indicate its being treated differently. Lets wait and see, I will be looking at all results that come in where this is the problem, to see if they are suddenly treated differently.

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