FSW APPLICATION DENIED, CONFUSED...

Did you include the documentation showing that with your application?
The Paris Embassy and Detroit might read things differently.
IE - Detroit might have read his police checks and equated them differently than Paris

avance wrote: Hello,   I am an USC and my husband is French.  I applied for FSW at Buffalo, transferred to Detroit, and submitted all required documents, medicals, and RPRF.  My FSW application was denied because my husband was deemed inadmissible because of his criminal background.  Last year, he applied for rehabilitation at the Paris Embassy, and the officer concluded that, based on his criminal background, the rehabilitation was unnecessary!!!   So confused, want to appeal this nonsense decision!!!   Please help!   Thanks

Your FSW refusal can only be Judicially Reviewed within 60 days of receiving the refusal letter. If you are outside of that time frame, you are out of luck. Also, if the appropriate documentation and/or submissions regarding your husband's criminal background were not included with the application then the VO could have made an error - the burden of proof is always on the applicant (however, if error was made, you'd have had grounds for a JR). For instance, arguments why deemed rehabilitation applies in this case - assuming it does, i'm not sure why Paris determined Rehab app. was not necessary, but i'm guessing this could be the reason, especially if the required pd. of time has elapsed since completion of sentence - have to be included with the application.