Prior Arrests Are Preventing Citizenship | Orlando Immigration Lawyers

Are you applying to become a U.S. citizen but worried that prior arrests are preventing citizenship? Watch this video to learn how our Orlando attorneys can help.

We’ve been asked recently if prior arrests can prevent someone from becoming a US citizen. It depends. Some arrests can result in your green card being revoked and have you deported back to your country. One of the reasons or one of the requirements for you to become a United States citizen is you must show good moral characters. A lot of arrests that have to deal with drugs, drug use, selling drugs, gang activity, violent activity, those types of crimes, being convicted of those types of crimes, can many times cause you to get deported and may prevent you from obtaining a United States citizenship, even some arrests, even without a conviction, specifically, like we mentioned, for drugs, that may tend to show that you’re not a person or what they feel a person of good moral character is. Even the mere arrest can sometimes have a detrimental arrest to your continued stay in the United States. That part may cause you to be deported. Being arrested alone may also affect your ability to obtain citizenship because, like we said, one of the requirements is to show that you’re of good moral character. Anyone that’s here that’s trying to immigrate into the United States that’s here under a visa, it’s important that they try to avoid any type of entanglement with the law.

If they don’t, it’s important that you retain an attorney that’s not only experienced in criminal law but that has experience in immigration law as well so that they can make sure that what you do and what defenses and how you handle your criminal case doesn’t affect your immigration status and your immigration situation. Those two go hand in hand. We at the Victory law firm have attorneys that specialize in criminal law and we also have attorneys that specialize in immigration and we are able to navigate both to make sure that we don’t affect someone’s immigration status or ability to continue to stay or gain citizenship in the United States isn’t accepted by a mistake or a perceived mistake or by an unlawful detainment by a police officer. If this is your situation, we invite you to call us. We’ll give you a free consultation. We can discuss your particular case and at least give you guidance so that you know exactly what you need to look out for if this is your situation. Feel free to give us a call. If you have any other questions, call us as well. Thanks.

Do you or your loved need help with immigration related legal matters and have questions about how prior arrests are preventing citizenship? Contact our experienced Orlando immigration lawyers today for a free consultation and case evaluation.