02-01-2017, 11:49 PM
Exactly sally. Your husband was here on a student visa. He was no longer a student, thus his visa was no longer valid. So, he had to become a student again or meet another honest visa requirement to stay here legally. That's the way it works.
People get deported when their visas expire all the time, when the government can locate them. Obama deported more illegal immigrants, by far, than his predecessors. But, the priority for most administrations, including Obama's, was to actively pursue those with criminal records for deportation first.
Almost half of "illegals" in this country fall into the category your husband did before you got married. They came here legally and didn't update their visas, thus they're classified as "illegals". What Trump proposed doing during his campaign was rounding up all such "illegals" and deporting them immediately; they wouldn't get years of time out of visa status and a warning, like your husband did. But, that's not happening now.
The current immigration Executive Order is for travel/entry into the U.S.; it does not authorize ICE to go looking for people from the 7 banned countries, round them up, and then deport them. If you're here in legal status, you stay here. However, if you're a Syrian national with a valid visa in the U.S. who was planning to travel back to Syria to check on your family, for example, you should cancel plans or risk being detained for hearing upon your return. If you're a Syrian who went through 18 months of vetting and got your valid refugee visa and tickets to the U.S., you will not be allowed to come to the U.S., indefinitely.
Your husband's situation would be comparable if he'd been banned from coming here after being fully vetted and approved for U.S. visa in Hungary or Switzerland, OR if he'd already been here for 5 years, had a valid visa or green-card, traveled to Hungary, and then been denied re-entry just after the Executive Order was passed. The judge intervened and stopped the immediate deportation orders in those such cases and some of those people are being reviewed and let through, others are being detained for hearing.
People get deported when their visas expire all the time, when the government can locate them. Obama deported more illegal immigrants, by far, than his predecessors. But, the priority for most administrations, including Obama's, was to actively pursue those with criminal records for deportation first.
Almost half of "illegals" in this country fall into the category your husband did before you got married. They came here legally and didn't update their visas, thus they're classified as "illegals". What Trump proposed doing during his campaign was rounding up all such "illegals" and deporting them immediately; they wouldn't get years of time out of visa status and a warning, like your husband did. But, that's not happening now.
The current immigration Executive Order is for travel/entry into the U.S.; it does not authorize ICE to go looking for people from the 7 banned countries, round them up, and then deport them. If you're here in legal status, you stay here. However, if you're a Syrian national with a valid visa in the U.S. who was planning to travel back to Syria to check on your family, for example, you should cancel plans or risk being detained for hearing upon your return. If you're a Syrian who went through 18 months of vetting and got your valid refugee visa and tickets to the U.S., you will not be allowed to come to the U.S., indefinitely.
Your husband's situation would be comparable if he'd been banned from coming here after being fully vetted and approved for U.S. visa in Hungary or Switzerland, OR if he'd already been here for 5 years, had a valid visa or green-card, traveled to Hungary, and then been denied re-entry just after the Executive Order was passed. The judge intervened and stopped the immediate deportation orders in those such cases and some of those people are being reviewed and let through, others are being detained for hearing.