Originally Posted by Demise

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?".