On Friday, federal authorities ordered Nicole Micheroni to leave the country within seven days.
Until Tuesday, Micheroni, a 40 -year -old American citizen, immigration lawyer and resident of Massachusetts, told MSNBC that he has not heard anything from the National Security Department, which believes he sent an erroneous notice that said “it’s time for you to leave the United States.”
“The process is a disaster at this time,” Micheroni said. “The DHS is not careful.”
The email came from an unanswered address, said Micheroni, and informed him that his “probation”, which in the immigration law allows non -citizens to enter or remain in the United States for limited periods of time, had ended, according to a screenshot of the email shared with NBC Boston.
“If you do not deport the United States immediately, you will be subject to possible actions to apply the law that will result in your removal from the United States,” says Email.
The notice was sent to his work email, said Micheroni, but was different from the emails that he normally receives from the clients’ immigration authorities. The name in the message was not included, he said, nor was there a case number.
Initially, Micheroni was not sure if it was real.
“At first I laughed, and then I thought, wait a minute,” he said. “This is very worrying.”
The National Security Department did not respond to a comment application on Tuesday. But in a statement to NBC Boston, a department official said that a separate agency, customs and border protection is issuing notices of probation termination to people who do not have a legal status to remain in the United States.
“CBP used known email addresses from abroad to send notifications,” said the official. “If the foreigner did not provide a non -personal email, as an American citizen contact, the notices may have been sent to unwanted recipients. CBP is monitoring communications and will address any problem in case by case.”
A second American citizen immigration lawyer and immigration from the Boston area, Carmen Bello, told NBC Boston that she also received a probation for probation termination that told her to leave the country.
“They are not even checking whether it is the email of the lawyer or the email of the applicant,” said Bello, referring to migrants who have requested probation. “I think there is a lack of responsibility in the department to send the letters like this.”
