Eddy Eddyto and his wife, Cherie, read to their children Jadealyn, 4, and Gabriella, 7 months, Tuesday in their Pekin home.

By Michael Smothers
Pekin Daily Times reporter
msmothers@pekintimes.com

Posted August 21. 2012 9:00PM

A sad future separated from his family by half a world could have begun Tuesday for Eddy Eddyto.

With help from high levels, the future changed.

Both a Republican and a Democratic congressman came to Eddyto’s aide. The nation’s secretary of Homeland Security heard of his case. Hundreds of letters came to the White House. Thousands of prayers were offered. A YouTube video hit the Internet.

On Saturday night, papers delivered by e-mail to his Pekin home let Eddyto step, possibly forever, from the doorway of deportation back to his native Indonesia, a nation he deems too dangerous for his American wife and children.

Eddyto, 36, is now back on the path to U.S. citizenship that had disappeared in a maze of lawyer fraud, legal denials and a decade of dwindling hope.

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National NBC News article featuring Principal Attorney, H. Glenn Fogle, Jr., and Fogle Law Firm clients, Floyd Abdul and Ivan Stobert , about the Etowah Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama.

In 2006, he traveled from Moldova to the United States on a visa. While here, he fell in love and in 2008 married a U.S. citizen. He became a permanent legal resident, bought a house in the Atlanta area and started a cleaning business.

Ivan Stobert, a 25 year-old Moldovan national, speaks to his lawyer from his home in Atlanta. Despite holding a green card, he says he spent nearly a year in the Etowah County Detention Center last fall after accidentally checking the “U.S. citizen” box on a motorcycle license application.

“Finally I made my dream,” Stobert told NBC News. “I buy my house, I have my business. I thought, ‘Wow, I love America!’”

But the love affair ended in December 2010, when the slight 25-year-old found himself locked up indefinitely in the Etowah County Detention Center in northeast Alabama, charged with an aggravated felony and facing deportation.

More than 250 detention facilities around the country are used to hold the tens of thousands immigrants detained each year by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, as they await court dates or deportation. Even those accused of relatively minor infractions, such as overstaying a visa, can be held for months – or even years – fighting their cases without the benefit of rights and resources guaranteed to those accused of criminal acts.

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The Fogle Law Firm, LLC, a top nationwide Immigration Law Firm, is specifically dedicated to educating potential beneficiaries of the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act, if enacted, would allow certain young immigrants brought into the United States as children, who are now out of or have no immigration status, to register and regularize their status in the United States.

Although the DREAM Act has not been enacted, President Obama on June 15, 2012 announce a new government policy to grant a form of relief called “Deferred Action” to young people in the United States (often referred to as “DREAMers”) who would benefit from the DREAM Act if enacted. This relief will allow those to qualify to live and work in the United States for a two year renewable period of time.

The Fogle Law Firm, LLC is available to educate and assist potential beneficiaries of President Obama’s DREAMer relief so please feel free to contact us at your convenience.

DREAMER RELIEF REQUIREMENTS

Pursuant to the Secretary’s June 15, 2012 memorandum, in order to be eligible for deferred action, individuals must:

1. Have come to the United States under the age of sixteen;
2. Have continuously resided in the United States for at least five years preceding June 15, 2012 and are present in the United States on June 15, 2012;
3. Currently be in school, have graduated from high school, have obtained a general education development certificate, or are honorably discharged veterans of the Coast Guard or Armed Forces of the United States;
4. Have not been convicted of a felony offense, a significant misdemeanor offense, multiple misdemeanor offenses, or otherwise pose a threat to national security or public safety;
5. Not be above the age of thirty.

Individuals must also complete a background check and, for those individuals who make a request to USCIS and are not subject to a final order of removal, must be 15 years old or older.

Applicants will need to provide documentation to substantiate and prove that they meet the above criteria.  This can include but are not limited:

• Passport/Entry Documents
• School Records (report cards, high school diplomas, etc.)
• Affidavits from parents indicating when their child was brought to the U.S.
• Medical records
• Other verifiable documents which show presence in the U.S.

Please note that in order to obtain this relief the packages will need to be submitted with the appropriate request showing that the applicant merits and deserves to be granted this relief.  We strongly recommend use of an experienced and competent Immigration Lawyer or Law Firm to assist with filing for this relief.  Contact The Fogle Law Firm at your convenience to schedule an appointment in order that we can prepare and file this relief on your behalf.

The Obama administration announced today that it will offer indefinite reprieves from deportation for young immigrants who were brought to the country as minors and meet other specific requirements. The move, hailed by immigration advocates as a bold response to the broken immigration system, temporarily eliminates the possibility of deportation for youths who would qualify for relief under the DREAM Act, giving Congress the space needed to craft a bipartisan solution that gives permanent residence to qualifying young people. In a statement from the White House, President Obama said the policy was “the right thing to do,” calling DREAMers “Americans in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper.”

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