Ron A. Kamran

Ron Kamran

Hi Abdul: I feel compelled to respond to your posting because the facts you mentioned in your postings are not accurate at all. Generally, the law prohibits me from disclosing any information about my current or former client because of the attorney-client privilege but once you post it and put it in public domain, the attorney-client privilege vanishes. Please note that I had filed your appeal nearly 10 years ago and it was a highly complex appeal because it involved fraud and misrepresentation issues and other complex legal issues against you. The decision on the appeal was rendered by the government nearly 10 years as well. The essential facts are as follows: Your mother, you, your other two or three siblings and your uncle came to United States nearly 35 years ago from Afghanistan. At the port of entry, all of you sought asylum. You were just a baby then. Your mother had three or four children with her which also included you. Your uncle, who was the brother of your mother was a single man and who did not have any child with him and he wanted to boost his chances of gaining asylum in the United States. Your uncle feared that his asylum application could be denied because of being single and no child with him. At the port of entry into USA, your mother and your uncle quickly decided for your uncle to borrow one of your mother’s children and to pretend that that child was his child in order for him to boost his chances of being able to secure asylum in the United States. He felt that his asylum application could be denied if he was a single man with no child with him. Once your uncle borrowed you, he listed you on his asylum application as his own child and listed himself as your father on your asylum application. Now, years later, when you applied for your citizenship on your own, you listed the true names of your parents on your naturalization application. The officer looked over your asylum application and noticed that the name of your father was different than the name of your father on your citizenship application. The immigration officer asked you to explain the reasoning behind that and you consulted with your mother and found out the true facts and you conveyed those facts to the officer. After USCIS denied your application on grounds of fraud and misrepresentation, you retained my services. We appealed the denial on grounds that there were some exceptions under immigration law when it comes to asylum-seekers in the United States and that any fraud and misrepresentation committed by your uncle and mother should not apply to you because you were just a baby then. Our appeal was denied and you wanted to appeal the decision further for which we asked you to pay additional sum money for the second appeal.. We had fully complied with the scope of services under our initial written agreement. You are a highly educated and an intelligent person and you understood the terms of the agreement. Based on my recollection you spoke several languages and are fluent in the English language. If I am not mistaken you had a master’s degree from USA, and wanted to be employed by the US government overseas as an interpreter to translate because you could fluently speak several languages. Further, we explained to you fully and you signed the agreement. Given the above, you are wholly wrong in saying that your appeal was a simple appeal and I don’t think that anyone reading this message would think of your appeal as being simple, especially when the decision of USCIS involved findings of fraud and misrepresentation. Further, our request for additional sum of money to file a second appeal from a negative decision was justified given that we had fully performed under the scope of services under the initial retainer agreement. You also agreed to the terms of the payment arrangement. I believe you were nearly 30 years old when we met. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. Thank you.