Dear Family, Friends and Community,

In the beginning of November, 2019, USCIS denied Zahid’s 2013 Earned, Qualified, Expedited Military N-400 application despite the fact that he passed the English and government/Civics portion with flying colors.  Under CARRP, applicants are subjected to harsh vetting (including extremely lengthy ‘interviews’ which more resemble ‘interrogations’); now, there are “successor extreme vetting” programs to CARRP.  See CARRP info

As many followers have read on this website, we won in immigration court in March of 2018.  The immigration judge (IJ) re-affirmed Zahid’s permanent residence status and allowed some waivers.  However, ICE attorneys appealed the IJ’s ruling at the 11th hour on the 30th day after the decision.  Their appeal put that case into the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).  There would be no more ‘hearings’ or court dates; just the parties passing papers/arguments back and forth.  Many attorneys in the know expected quite a number of years to pass before BIA would be able to make any decision on the appeal.  Surprisingly, at the end of February, 2020, BIA handed down its decision from a 3-woman panel: they reversed the IJ’s ruling and in 30 days, Zahid is to be “removed” to Pakistan.

One final avenue is left: ‘appealing’ or petitioning the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.  There must be a filing called “Notice of Intent to Petition” filed with the 9th Circuit before March 26, 2020.  Along with that, there must be a Motion to Stay Removal filed to prevent ICE from hastily, surreptitiously detaining and deporting Zahid before the 30 days end period.

Our partners in justice should not forget that not too long ago, not one, but two Seattle ICE attorneys had charges brought against them and were removed from their employment.  The Deputy Chief ICE attorney had forged signatures on immigration documents causing immigrant/s to be deported from the United States.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) form was not created until years after the immigrant had allegedly signed it, because the DHS itself had not been created yet.  The former Deputy Chief ICE attorney allegedly has been told he cannot practice law for 10 years.   The other, the Chief ICE attorney had used the identities of immigrants he had caused to be put into deportation (and/or were already deported) to fraudulently open credit card accounts in those immigrants’ names, listed some as dependents on his personal tax return/s, had his own home utilities put in their names.  His sentence was just 4 years in jail.  Mark Nerheim, an attorney and member of the Washington Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said: “Whitewash, they alluded during their [court] presentation there was potential evidence of many other crimes, potentially.”   What shining examples of “good moral character” these two high-level ICE attorneys are to aspiring Americans !  Seattle ICE attorneys charged

October 3, 2019

Many THANK YOUs to:
       Warrior Wendy – co-ordinator of today’s (10/3/19) events, flyers, etc;
       Ready Rick – driver of bus and the use of the bus to get folks to Tukwila and back;
       Determined Dusty – driver for Zahid & Ann and Dusty’s trusty car (Ann is thankful not to be the driver);
and to all our Super Supporters and rally-ers, & sign holders, who traveled to Tukwila;
and to all our Other Supporters around the state and the world !

Naturalization Interview Results

“On 10/3/2019, you were interviewed by USCIS officer Holbrook.

You passed the tests of English and U.S. History and government.

A decision cannot yet be made about your application. ”

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After 3 hours of interrogation and extreme vetting Zahid was put through, the above was the result. Three intense hours the rest of us waited; waiting and watching others arrive for interviews, completing their obviously brief interviews and after another short wait, receiving a piece of paper to bring back for a (SAME DAY) 1:30 pm citizenship ceremony; three hours with no communication with Zahid (Ann, spouse and Personal Care Attendant, was informed she would not be allowed to accompany Zahid).

By law, USCIS must make a decision (on the application) within 120 days.

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Keep Zahid Home!
Zahid Chaudhry Citizenship Interview based on Qualified Military Service
Thursday, October 3, 2019 @ 9 am
12500 Tukwila International Blvd., Tukwila (Seattle), WA 98168

Carpool for Rally !      Thursday, October 3, 2019
Gather at 7am/last vehicle departs at 7:20 sharp                            RSVP by text: 360-529-1109

Martin Way Park and Ride (meet at the back of lot)
4701 Martin Way East, Lacey

Imagine if you (yes, imagine you personally) have worked so hard to earn wages and your wages have been denied because of the “color of your skin” or “your religion” or “country of your birth”.

Imagine how would you feel if your earned fruits of your labor, commitments, etc. (wages, benefits, etc.) are delayed for 20 years?

Now imagine, the other party also breaks their part of the contract (treaty, promise, laws) and undermines the Constitution and forces you to attend dozens of court hearings, interrogations, investigations, subjecting you to extreme vetting secret policies; putting your name on “No Fly list”, and also the secret terrorist watch list (and shares these lists with private firms and other actors all over the globe); the lists from which there is no meaningful way to remove yourself.  Being on this list also excludes you from other earned benefits and rights.

Research by http://www.theintercept.com “revealed a staggeringly due-process-free system in which the government was routinely affixing the word “terrorist” to an individual’s name and disseminating that information to a sprawling network of foreign and private partners, with virtually no evidence required to support the claim.”  A federal judge has recently ruled this practice unconstitutional:  https://theintercept.com/2019/09/06/terrorism-watchlist-lawsuit-ruling/  See:  Terrorism Watchlist ruling

How would you feel if you and your family are denied all Constitutional due processes ?

What would you do if the other party never told you that they are putting you on any such lists to begin with?
And then they will never “confirm” or “deny” that you are on any such lists, even after so many FOIA requests and following all their cumbersome procedures to redress the grievances.

What if all of these torments, threats, persecutions, cruel & unusual punishments robbed you, your family & your community of 20 years of your lives ?

How would you feel if it cost you millions upon millions of dollars and you had to expend thousands & thousands of hours over many, many years to deal with?

This is exactly the tip of the iceberg, that Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, his family & all the community has been subjected to !

Many of you know Zahid Chaudhry and of his long fight for immigration justice. This upcoming Citizenship Interview is based on his Qualified Military Service.  Zahid qualified for expedited naturalization because of his active-duty service from 2001 – 2005 (to 2006, for National Guard service). George W. Bush issued the original Executive Order, which remains in effect to this day. Zahid witnessed non-citizen active-duty service-members receiving naturalization right on the spot after completing Basic Training.

A national security program called CARRP systematically results in the delay and denial of applications from people from Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian countries. Is it because of CARRP that he has been denied this benefit and instead has been subject to endless court appearances and threats? https://www.aclusocal.org/en/CARRP
Although we will not be allowed in the building, we can be holding signs outside. Bring ID.

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WE won !

A community that stands united wins! (against hate, paranoia, xenophobia, bigotry, islamophobia)

ICE CAUSED suffering for the community for 17 years and wasted millions upon millions of taxpayers’ dollars in this witchhunt  !

ICE lost their many years’ long case in Immigration court in March 2018 and  caused waste, fraud & abuse of taxpayers’ funds.