M&G CheatSheet
M&G CheatSheet
When you complete the information on this sheet, fill it out as you would on the forms so we
can copy and paste it onto the forms.
Biographical Information:
Client’s ph#: __________________ Email:_________________
Does the client need an Interpreter? Yes No
Have you ever applied for an immigrant visa to obtain permanent residence status at the U.S.
Embassy or U.S. Consulate abroad? Yes No
If Yes, provide the following:
Location of U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate: City/Country: __________________________
Decision (Approved, Deny, Refused, Withdrawn): ________________________________________
Date of Decision: ____________________________________
Have you previously applied for permanent residence while in the U.S.? Yes No
Have you ever held LPR status, which was later rescinded under INA Section 246? Yes No
Parents Information
Mother’s First/Middle/Last name:________________________________________________
Mother’s DOB: _____________________
Country of birth:_______________________
Father’s First/Middle/Last name:_________________________________________________
Father’s DOB: _____________________
Country of birth:_________________________
Child Based
N/A
Relationship: Biological Mother or Biological Father
Step Mother or Step Father
Abuser’s Full Name: ___________________________________________
Date of Birth: ______________ Place of birth city/state/country: _______________
Legal status: USC by birth Naturalized USC A#: __________ LPR: A#: ____________
Dates lived with Abuser in total: From: _____________________ To ______________________
Address of last place living together: _______________________________________________
Dates lived at this address with abuser: From _________________ To ____________________
Address of last place living together: _______________________________________________
Dates lived at this address with abuser: From _________________ To ____________________
Address of last place living together: _______________________________________________
Dates lived at this address with abuser: From _________________ To ____________________
Address of last place living together: _______________________________________________
Dates lived at this address with abuser: From _________________ To ____________________
# of times Applicant has been married: _______ # of times Abuser has been married: ________
Past 5 years of residence
1) Address_______________________________
City/State/Zip _______________________________
From _____________________ To _____________________
With Spouse/Child/ Parent Y N
2) Address_______________________________
City/State/Zip _______________________________
From _____________________ To _____________________
With Spouse/Child/ Parent Y N
3) Address_______________________________
City/State/Zip _______________________________
From _____________________ To _____________________
With Spouse/Child/ Parent Y N
4) Address_______________________________
City/State/Zip _______________________________
From _____________________ To _____________________
With Spouse/Child/ Parent Y N
5) Address_______________________________
City/State/Zip _______________________________
From _____________________ To _____________________
With Spouse/Child/ Parent Y N
Last address outside of the US:
Address_______________________________
City/State/Zip _______________________________
From _____________________ To _____________________
With Spouse/Child/ Parent Y N
Past 5 years of employment:
Entries/Departures
Client's age at the time of first entry: ________________ Date of last arrival: ______________
Place of entry:__________________________________
Status at entry: ______________ Manner of entry: __________
Only fill this information out if the client’s last entry was lawful with a visa, etc.; don’t complete if the
last entry was EWI
Passport Number: ____________________________
I-94 Number: ____________________________
Travel Document Number: ____________________________
If only one entry is provided. Was your last arrival the first time you were physically present in
the United States? Yes NO
Other entries
Date of entry #1 Status at entry/Manner Place of entry Knew Spouse/Child/ Parent
Yes NO
Contact with immigration/outcome:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of departure/Reason for departure:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of entry #2 Status at entry/Manner Place of entry Knew Spouse/Child/ Parent
Yes NO
Contact with immigration/outcome:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of departure/Reason for departure:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of entry #3 Status at entry/Manner Place of entry Knew Spouse/Child/ Parent
Yes NO
Contact with immigration/outcome:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of departure/Reason for departure:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of entry #4 Status at entry/Manner Place of entry Knew Spouse/Child/ Parent
Yes NO
Contact with immigration/outcome:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of departure/Reason for departure:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of entry #5 Status at entry/Manner Place of entry Knew Spouse/Child/ Parent
Yes NO
Contact with immigration/outcome:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Date of departure/Reason for departure:
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Spouse’s information
Last name: First name:
Middle name: DOB:
Place of birth city/state/country: ________________________________________________
Date of marriage:______________________ Place of marriage:____________________
Spouse Based
N/A
Legal status: USC by birth USC naturalized A#: ______________LPR A#____________
Outcome/Sentence:___________________________________________________________________
Is the case closed? Did CL comply with everything court-ordered? Yes NO
Notes:_________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
Outcome/Sentence:___________________________________________________________________
Is the case closed? Did CL comply with/ everything the court ordered? Yes NO
Notes:_________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
Outcome/Sentence:___________________________________________________________________
Is the case closed? Did CL comply with/ everything the court ordered? Yes NO
Notes:_________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
Outcome/Sentence:___________________________________________________________________
Is the case closed? Did CL comply with/ everything the court ordered? Yes NO
Notes:_________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Outcome/Sentence:___________________________________________________________________
Is the case closed? Did CL comply with/ everything the court ordered? Yes NO
Notes:_________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
Inadmissibility Questions
General eligibility questions
10. Have you EVER been denied admission to the United States?Yes NO
11. Have you EVER been denied a visa to the United States?Yes NO
12. Have you EVER worked in the United States without authorization?
Yes NO
13. Have you EVER violated the terms or conditions of your nonimmigrant status?
Yes NO
14. Are you presently or have you EVER been in removal, exclusion, rescission, or
deportation proceedings? Yes NO
15. Have you EVER been issued a final order of exclusion, deportation, or removal?
Yes NO
16. Have you EVER had a prior final order of exclusion, deportation, or removal
reinstated? Yes NO
17. Have you EVER been granted voluntary departure by an immigration officer or an
immigration judge but failed to depart within the allotted time? Yes NO
18. Have you EVER applied for any kind of relief or protection from removal,
exclusion, or deportation?Yes NO
19. Have you EVER been a J nonimmigrant exchange visitor who was subject to the
two-year foreign residence requirement? Yes NO
20. If you answer “YES” to Item Number 19., have you completed the foreign
residence requirement? Yes NO
21. If you answer “YES” to Item Number 19., and “No” to Item Number 19., have you
been granted a waiver, or has the Department of State issued a favorable waiver
recommendation letter for you? Yes NO
Criminal Act and Violations Questions
22. Have you EVER been arrested, cited, charged, or permitted to participate in a
diversion program (including pre-trial diversion, deferred prosecution, deferred
adjudication, or any wild adjudication) or detained for any reason by any law
enforcement official in any country including to any U.S. immigration official or any
official of the U.S. armed forces or U.S. Coast Guard) or by a similar official in a
country other than the United States? Yes NO
23. Have you EVER committed a crime of any kind (even if you were not arrested,
cited, charged with, or tried for that crime or convicted)? Yes NO
24. Have you EVER pled guilty to or been convicted of a crime or offense (even if the
violation was subsequently expunged or sealed by a court, or if you were granted a
pardon, amnesty, a rehabilitation decree, or other act of clemency)? Yes NO
25. Have you EVER been ordered punished by a judge or had conditions imposed on
you that restrained your liberty (such as a prison sentence, suspended sentence,
house arrest, parole, alternative sentencing, drug or alcohol treatment, rehabilitative
programs or classes, probation, or community service)? Yes NO
26 . Have you EVER violated (or attempted or conspired to violate) any controlled
substance law or regulation of a state, the United States, or a foreign country?
Yes NO
27. Have you EVER trafficked in or benefited from or knowingly aided, abetted,
conspired, or colluded in the illegal trafficking of controlled substances, such as
chemicals, illegal drugs, or narcotics? Yes NO
28. Are you the spouse, son, or daughter of a foreign national who illicitly trafficked
or aided (or otherwise abetted, assisted, conspired, or colluded) in the illicit
trafficking of a controlled substance, such as chemicals, illegal drugs, or narcotics
and you obtained, within the last five years, any financial or other benefit from the
illegal activity of your spouse or parent? Yes NO
29. If your answer to Item Number 28 is “YES,” did you know or should you have
reasonably known that the financial or other benefit you obtained resulted from this
activity of your spouse or parent? Yes NO
30. Have you EVER engaged in prostitution, or are you coming to the United States to
engage in prostitution? Yes NO
31. Have you EVER directly or indirectly procured (or attempted to procure) or
imported prostitutes or persons for the purpose of prostitution? Yes NO
32. Have you EVER received any proceeds or money from prostitution?
Yes NO
33. Do you intend to engage in illegal gambling or any other form of commercialized
vice, such as prostitution, bootlegging, or the sale of child pornography, while in the
United States? Yes NO
34. Have you EVER exercised immunity (diplomatic or otherwise) to avoid being
prosecuted for a criminal offense in the United States? Yes NO
35 .a.. Have you EVER served as a foreign government official? Yes NO
35.b. If your answer to Item Number 35. a. Is it “YES”? Have you EVER been
responsible for, enforced, or directly carried out violations of religious freedoms?
Yes NO
36. Have you EVER induced by force, fraud, or coercion (or otherwise been involved
in) the trafficking of persons for commercial sex acts(sex trafficking)?
Yes NO
37. Have you EVER trafficked a person into involuntary servitude, peonage, debt
bondage, or slavery? Yes NO
38. Have you EVER knowingly aided, abetted, assisted, conspired, or colluded with
others in trafficking persons for commercial sex acts or involuntary servitude,
peonage, debt bondage, or slavery? Yes NO
3 9. Are you the spouse, son, or daughter of a foreign national who engaged in the
trafficking of persons and has received or obtained, within the last five years, any
financial or other benefits from the illicit activity of your spouse or your parent,
although you knew or reasonably should have known that this benefit resulted from
the illicit activity of your spouse or parent? Yes NO
40. If your answer is “YES” to Item number 39., did you know or reasonably should
have known that this benefit resulted from this activity of your spouse or parent?
Yes NO
41. Have you EVER engaged in money laundering, or have you EVER knowingly aided,
assisted, conspired, or colluded with others in money laundering, or do you seek to
enter the United States to engage in such activity? Yes NO
Security And Related
42.a. Engage in any activity in the United States that violates or decades any law
relating to espionage (including spying) or Sabotage in the United States?
Yes NO
42.b Engage in any activity in the United States that Violates or evades any law
prohibiting the export of goods, technology, or sensitive information from the United
States. Yes NO
42.c. Engage in any activity whose purpose includes opposing controlling the U.S.
government by force, violence, or other unlawful means while in the United States.
Yes NO
42.d. Engage in any other unlawful activity? Yes NO
Have you EVER:
43. a Received any weapons training, paramilitary training, or other military-type
training? Yes NO
43.b. Committed Kidnapping, assassination, or hijacking or sabotage of a
conveyance (including an aircraft, vessel, vehicle, or train)? Yes NO
43.c. Used a weapon or explosive or any dangerous device with the intent to
endanger the safety of another person or people or cause damage to property?
Yes NO
43.d. Threatened, Attempted, conspired, prepared, or planned to do any of the things
described in the Item Item Number 43.b.43.e.? Yes NO
43.e. Incited, under circumstance indicating an intention to cause death or serious
bodily harm/injury, any of the activities described in Item numbers 43.b.43.e.?
Yes NO
43.f. Participated in or been a member of a group or organization that did any of the
activities described in Item numbers 43.b.43.e.? Yes NO
43.g. Recruited members or asked for money or things of value for a group or
organization that did any of the activities described in Item numbers 43.b.43.e.?
Yes NO
43.h. Provided money, a thing of value, service labor, or any other assistance or
support for any of the activities described in Item Number 43.b. - 43.e.?
Yes NO
43. i. Provided money, a thing of value, service labor, or any other assistance or
support for an individual, group, or organization who did any of the activities
described in Item numbers 43.b.43.e.? Yes NO
44. Do you intend to engage in any activities listed in any part of Item numbers
43.b.43.e.? Yes NO
45. Do you intend to engage in any activity that could endanger the welfare, safety, or
security of the United States? Yes NO
46. Are you the spouse or child of an individual who EVER engaged in any of the
activities listed in Item numbers 43.b.43.e.? Yes NO
47. Have you EVER sold, provided,d, or transported a weapon or assisted any person
in selling, providing, or transporting weapons that you knew or believed would be
used against another person? Yes NO
48. Have you EVER worked, volunteered, or otherwise served in any prison, jail,
prison camp, detention facility, labor camp, or any other place where people were
detained or EVER directed or participated in any other activity that involved detaining
people? Yes NO
49. Have you EVER been a member of, assisted, or participated in any group, unit, or
organization of any kind in which you or other persons used any type of weapon
against any person or threatened to do so? Yes NO
50. Have you EVER served in, been a member of, assisted (helped), or participated in
any military or police unit? Yes NO
51. Have you EVER served in, been a member of, assisted, or participated in any
military unit, paramilitary unit, police unit, self-defense unit, vigilante unit, rebel
group, guerilla group, militia, insurgent organization, or any other armed group?
Yes NO
52. Have you EVER been a member of, or in any way affiliated with, the Communist
Party or any other totalitarian party (in the United States or abroad)? Yes NO
Have you EVER ordered incited for, committed, assisted, helped with, or otherwise
participated in any of the following:
53.a. Torture? Yes NO
53.b Genocide? Yes NO
53.c. Killing or trying to kill any person? Yes NO
53.d intentionally and severely injuring or trying a person? Yes NO
54. Have you EVER recruited, enlisted, or used any person under 15 years of age to
take part in hostilities to serve in or help an armed force or group, or attempted or
worked with others to do so? Yes NO
55. Have you EVER used any person under 15 years of age to take part in hostilities,
for instance, participating in combat or providing services related to combat(such as
sabotage or serving a courier) or providing support services (such as transporting
supplies), or attempted or worked with others to do so? Yes NO
Public charge questions to exempt from VAWA 57-66
Illegal Entries and Other Immigration Violations
67. Have you EVER failed or refused to attend or to remain in attendance at any
removal proceeding filed against you on or after April 1, 1997? Yes NO
68. Have you EVER submitted altered, fraudulent, or counterfeit documentation to
any U.S. government official to obtain or attempt to obtain any immigration benefit,
including a visa or entry into the United States? Yes NO
69. Have you EVER lied about, concealed,d or misrepresented any information on an
application or petition to obtain a visa or other documentation required for entry into
the United States, admission to the United States, or any other kind of immigration
benefit? Yes NO
70. Have you EVER falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen (in writing or in any other
way)? Yes NO
71. Have you EVER been stowaway on a vessel or aircraft arriving in the United
States? Yes NO
72. Have you EVER knowingly encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any
foreign national to enter or to try to enter the United States illegally (alien
smuggling)? Yes NO
73. Are you under a final order of civil penalty for violating INA section 274C for the
use of fraudulent documents? Yes NO
Removal, Unlawful Presence, or Illegal Reentry after Previous Immigration
Violations
74. Have you EVER been excluded, deported, or removed from the United States, or
have you ever departed the United States on your own after having been ordered
excluded, deported, or removed from the United States? Yes NO
75. Have you EVER entered the United States without being inspected and admitted
or paroled? Yes NO
76. Since April 1, 1997, have you been unlawfully present in the United States? You
were unlawfully present in the United States if you were present in the United States
after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) Secretary or were present in the United States without being admitted
or paroled. Yes NO
77. If you answer “Yes” to Item Number 76., was a severe form of trafficking in
persons at least one central reason for your unlawful presence in the United States?
Yes NO
Since April 1, 1997, have you EVER reentered or attempted to reenter the United
States without being inspected and admitted or paroled after:
78.a. Having been unlawfully present in the United States for more than a year in the
aggregate on or after April 1,1997? You were unlawfully present in the United States
for more than one year in the aggregate if you count all of the days during all of your
stays that you were present in the United States after the expiration of the period of
stay authorized by the DHS Secretary or were present in the United States without
being admitted or paroled? Yes NO
78.b. Having been deported, excluded, or removed from the United States?
Yes NO
Miscellaneous Conduct
Client’s entries *If additional space is required, include the remaining information in a note*
N/A
Perm Bar
Misrep
Criminal: ___________________
Total number of entries: ______
Number of Entry: _____________
1. Date You Entered the U.S. (mm/dd/yyyy): ______________________________________
2. Date You Departed the U.S. (mm/dd/yyyy):______________________________________
3. Immigration Status At the Time of Your Reentry Into the U.S.: _______________________
4. Location at Which You Entered the U.S.:________________________________________
5. The U.S. City or Town Where You Lived:____________________________________________
Yes No N/A
Applicant’s Birth Certificate (w/Translation)
Applicant’s Government Issued ID (Passport/Consular ID aka:
Matricula/State ID or DL)
Marriage Certificate (If applicable)
CLM Certificate (If applicable)
CLM Letters (If needed)
Proof of Abuser’s legal status (BC, Passport, Certificate of Natz,
LPR)
If a letter requesting USCIS to verify legal status is required, please indicate it here:
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