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Dear all, I am an immigration attorney in Seattle, Washington. Our firm has a case involving an individual who was a soldier in the VRS (outside Sarajevo) who failed to include his military service on his refugee application and obtained a resident card from Serbia, even though his family was living in Bosnia. The U.S. government is now trying to deport him and his family, claiming that the misrepresentations were “material,” insofar as they would have disqualified him from refugee status. In a similar case, we had an expert submit a statement that a person’s service in the VRS would not have disqualified him from refugee status. The expert also said that it was common knowledge that people were moving back and forth across borders, obtaining residence cards to obtain basic goods and medical care, and that this would not have disqualified a person from refugee status. Our expert, however, mainly worked with Bosnians who had fled to Croatia. We’re looking for someone who processed refugee applications in about 1995 in Bosnia. Please contact me if you have this experience! Please send replies to: [log in to unmask] Lori Walls Associate Attorney Gibbs Houston Pauw 1000 Second Ave., Suite 1600 Seattle, WA 98104 Tel: (206) 682-1080 Fax: (206) 689-2270 email: [log in to unmask] -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by Forced Migration Online, Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/discussion/guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/forcedmigration