QUESTION
If I go to a pretrial diversion program, will it affect my N-400 application?
Asked on Dec 12th, 2016 on Immigration - Georgia
More details to this question:
My ex and I broke up and one day she put injunction on me. It was granted for 20 days until we go to the court. A week later it was my time to pick up my child so I texted her saying I am on my way to pick up our child and she called the cops and showed them my message. That was a violation they said. When we went to the court the judge dismissed the injunction but I had to go to see another judge for violating the injunction by texting her when I wasn't supposed to. Second judge had the court to call me and said I'll have to go through the pretrial diversion program and I was asked to do 25 hours community services and when I finished these hours and returned my papers, they called me again and said the charges were dropped. There was no conviction, I never been in trouble before.
1 ANSWER
In the N-400 application process it will be necessary to identify all offenses, including the one you described (which would be identified to the USCIS through the security background search in any event), and to provide a complete set of court-certified copies of disposition documents. With full and complete disposition documents, and assuming an absence of other blemishes on your record, I would expect the offense you described not to stand in the way of your eligibility for naturalization.
Answered on Feb 08th, 2017 at 6:57 AM