You know what they say about "assume".

So it turns out you all DON'T all know each other! No, I mean another poster, who has not been upfront as you have been, and whose identity came to me thru the backdoor after his run in with personnel from my former employer.

I haven't seen you here for months, and even though we sometimes disagree, you appear to be an honorable man (though to my mind, like many law enforcement officers, somewhat deficient in your understanding of Bayes' theorem and the concept of confirmation bias), and we have missed you.

Besides discussing his case with a good lawyer, do you have any additional information our OP can use? Is there any immigration lawyer so infamous from whom you would steer him away?