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Hello everyone, looking for some help here :
so i have a friend who applied around almost a year ago to 17-11 and his application is still on hold and Equip has not released to OPR because he failed to register for selective service and he is now older than 26; but back then when he arrived to the country he only had a student visa and he was not aware of selective service registration requirement or if he even had to register due to him only being here on a visa and not even being a permanent resident.
Years later he is now a citizen and wants to know if there is some sort of waiver that CBP can give him, he already reached out to Selective Service and they told him that: A PERSON MAY NOT BE DENIED A RIGHT, PRIVILEGE OR BENEFIT UNDER FEDERAL LAW BY REASON OF FAILURE TO PRESENT HIMSELF FOR AND SUBMIT TO REGISTRATION IF (1) THE PERSON SHOWS BY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE THAT THE FAILURE TO REGISTER WAS NOT A KNOWING AND WILLFUL FAILURE TO REGISTER.
so SS is taking themselves out of the equation and CBP says refer to SS and that they are "verifying" with SS, but it has been months and case manager would send generic messages back and my friend is in the middle of that abyss.
has anybody had a similar experience, or heard of something like this? how can he escalate his situation when his case manager seems to not care much??
so i have a friend who applied around almost a year ago to 17-11 and his application is still on hold and Equip has not released to OPR because he failed to register for selective service and he is now older than 26; but back then when he arrived to the country he only had a student visa and he was not aware of selective service registration requirement or if he even had to register due to him only being here on a visa and not even being a permanent resident.
Years later he is now a citizen and wants to know if there is some sort of waiver that CBP can give him, he already reached out to Selective Service and they told him that: A PERSON MAY NOT BE DENIED A RIGHT, PRIVILEGE OR BENEFIT UNDER FEDERAL LAW BY REASON OF FAILURE TO PRESENT HIMSELF FOR AND SUBMIT TO REGISTRATION IF (1) THE PERSON SHOWS BY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE THAT THE FAILURE TO REGISTER WAS NOT A KNOWING AND WILLFUL FAILURE TO REGISTER.
so SS is taking themselves out of the equation and CBP says refer to SS and that they are "verifying" with SS, but it has been months and case manager would send generic messages back and my friend is in the middle of that abyss.
has anybody had a similar experience, or heard of something like this? how can he escalate his situation when his case manager seems to not care much??
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