CIR passes yay, if it doesn't, what are your next plans?

Me personally, I really don't care if it passes or not. If it passes, then awesome, and if it doesn't then I am not going let it get to me. I have stated that here many times, so I am not too excited for a CIR. I will find my own ways of fixing my status through other means, and if I can't change my status, move to a different country and find employment there, but seriously not going to let that stress me out.

So what are your guys plans if a cir was not to pass this year or the next or the next hypothetically speaking? Move back home, find your own ways of changing your status, continue living as so?

My step father has an EB-2, 245(i) grandfathered labor petition going (currently still on the step of the getting the PERM). If the I-140 is filed before I turn 21 in December, and I can get my deportation order removed, I'll be a permanent resident.

If I somehow manage to age out (and I'm covered by CSPA as long as the I-140 is filed before I hit 21, and I file I-485 to adjust status within a year of the former's approval), then I really don't have much of a plan B, as deportation order + EWI makes me illegible to adjust status via any way that doesn't pardon EWI (and only 245(i) does that, and I'm not a grandfathered beneficiary).

I have to say the optimism in the forum had actually got to me, I was a skeptic at the beginning, now I'm lurking the forum several times a day for auspicious sign. But besides all the talks, there is nothing materialized yet, noting tangible that we can touch.

If it doesn't get pass, well, I do guess I have to move. I'm not sure just when I should stop hoping though.

What happened that you got an order of deportation against you?

Keep on fighting! But yea, that would definitely be heartbreaking. As for me I guess wait for a 25 year petition from my parents. I'm from the Philippines, so it's going to take awhile.

Nothing criminal. My mother and I were caught trying to EWI on the Mexican Border, released on supervision. We were never heard from again. Never received any court papers, ordered removed in absentia.

Generally you only have 180 days to re-open an immigration case after an order in absentia, unless you can demonstrate that either postal service fucked up, or there was some other exceptional circumstances. In my case the lawyer will likely argue that I was 11 at the time, so I didn't know, and even if I did I wouldn't go on my own from NY to AZ to attend the court hearing. We still don't know what to do with my mother.

I didn't even know I had a deportation order until DACA came about, and one of the questions was "Were you ever in removal proceedings?".

Like many other people, I'll have a huge weight lifted from my shoulders.

Nine years ago, my USC grandfather filed an I-130 for my mother. I was under 18 at the time, but our lawyer told me that I'd age out this year. The I-130 was approved, but we're waiting on visa numbers to become available. And based on our category, that may take another three years (but you know I really mean ten ).

I'm hoping they deal with visa number availability and she can adjust her status within the country. If not, she can just head the route of whatever program is created under CIR.

Once her immigration situation is settled and we see what kind of status DREAMers obtain, I can go to medical school.

Hmm interesting scenario there. But as for me, I believe the CIR will have to be negotiated one way or another until we see a reasonable end to help immigrants in need, who are essential part of our economy.

Oh wow, best of luck to both of you.

Yeah for until the remainder of DACA we can't do much but wait and see