How To Check The Current Immigration Status After A DUI
Ways That DUI’s Can
Affect Job Employment and Immigration Status
Overview
Are you aware that it’s a criminal offense for anyone to drive a vehicle while under the influence of drugs such as alcohol?
Under the DUI laws, it’s unlawful for anyone to operate a commercial vehicle, car, motorcycle or truck if:
- His/her ability to safely control the vehicle is affected by illegal drugs, alcohol, OTC medications like antihistamines or even prescribed medications.
- He/she is intoxicated at levels that exceed established DUI standards, e.g. BAC (blood alcohol concentration).
There are several ways that DUI’s can affect job employment and
immigration status.
How can DUI’s affect your prospects of securing a job?
It’s possible for your job prospects to become limited when you get convicted because of a DUI offense. Most prospective employers will try to find out if you’ve ever been convicted because of driving while under the influence of intoxicating substances. Many of them will run a background check on you to determine your suitability for the available job opportunity.
Johnny Beavers, an attorney with San Diego DUI Pro, offers a closer look, “If you already have a job, getting a DUI might get you fired, there are instances where you are required to self report a DUI to your supervisors with some companies. Otherwise, you can try your best to conceal the offense from your employers.”
If you’ve had a previous DUI conviction but your career choice doesn’t involve driving, dealing with children or handling sensitive material, your potential employer may not necessarily victimize you on account of the DUI conviction.
Employers for certain positions are generally very sensitive about prospective employees with previous DUI convictions. If you’re applying for the position of a day care provider or teacher, a previous DUI conviction may hinder your chances of securing that job.
You may also face challenges if you wish to work as a bus driver, outside salesman/ woman, truck driver or delivery driver.
If you get convicted because of a DUI offense, you may fail to secure a government job or get admission into the military.
Companies that handle sensitive and confidential information and/or material rarely hire people who have DUI convictions on their records.
How can DUI’s affect your immigration status?
If you are an immigrant and you commit a DUI offense, you’ll be arraigned in an immigration court, and the presiding judge will have to decide whether your offense meets the threshold for deportability.
If the judge finds you guilty, the federal government could revoke your visa. Subsequently, you may be deported from the country and further prohibited from re-entering it for several years.
If you leave the country and have been previously convicted because of committing a DUI offense, you’ll encounter great difficulty upon trying to re-enter the country.
In the USA as well as many other countries, grounds of inadmissibility prohibit immigrants from reentry if they have DUI convictions on their records, commit DUIs outside the country and have also spent considerable amount of time outside the country.
Don Long at Hart Levin says, “Having a lawyer with a track record of people is better than having a lawyer nobody knows anything about. Read up on the lawyer’s reduced sentencing successes for clients. Nobody should have to face this alone and be left in the dark.”