OK - here we go again :)
I telephoned the US Embassy visa operator to try to sort out a visa appointment as Maria Damour and the visa section at the US Embassy in London have not responded to requests for me to get a visa interview appointment (the first step in getting a visa).
At £1.20 a minute (that's about $2.50 a minute for US readers) I was on the telephone for about 20 minutes trying to sort out an appointment - the visa operator finally came back with- you need to email the US Embassy with this so here it is (for a 3rd time):
From: karlhindle@aol.com
Show/Hide all the To recipientsTo: londonconsular@state.gov
Show/Hide all the CC recipientsCC: Jean.Carrero@mail.house.gov, graeme.wise@fco.gov.uk, dcarter@reunite.demon.co.uk, kruckman@state@gov, dferguson@ormondlawfirm.com, lucy.benyon@express.co.uk
Subject: ciu760 FAO: Maria Damour - Hindle re: visa appointment
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 4.41PM
Attachments:
Immigration_Report.2.jpg (218K)greigfax.0.jpg (179K)
Dear Ms Damour:
I have spoken with the US Embassy visa appointment line and have been advised to contact you again.
This is the third such email I have sent to the US Embassy in accordance with instructions of the visa operator - I have received no replies from the first two.
I have been advised that I cannot proceed with obtaining a visa appointment without emailing you in respect of the following:
1. I am applying to British police for a Subject Access Statement as instructed by the operator:
2. I was refused a visa in September 2006 by the US Embassy London:
A. for court ordered access to minor child on the grounds I have harassed the US citizen mother of my minor child in the US (despite the findings of the US court that I have not done so and court orders repeatedly provided to you and the US Embassy); and
B. for attendance and prosecution of court proceedings in Volusia County Florida in connection with minor child on the grounds I am attempting to emigrate to the United States.
The visa operator advises me that the US Embassy needs to provide me with the visa refusal codes before they can offer an appointment date; and
3. That given my arrest by US Immigration in Florida on 28th May 2004 I must provide a sworn statement from an entity you must specify in the United States in a form you will specify as to the circumstances of that arrest. I have appended a copy of the US immigration arrest report of the arresting officer Wayne Baehre and a fax to US Immigration by Barbara Greig of the State Department, which demonstrates my arrest was predicated on information provided by Barbara J Greig, Office of Childrens Issues, Department of State, Washington DC.
I understand you require the following:
Name: Karl Ernest Hindle
Nationality: British
Passport Number: 305478269
Email address : Karlhindle@ol.com
Karl Hindle
5 Berwick Cottages
Terling Hall Road
Hatfield Peverel
Essex CM3 2EY
UNITED KINGDOM
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
US Department of State - Partial Release of US Passport Application for Emily Rose
I recently received page 3 of a US Passport application made for Emily Rose in January 2003 - the US passport that was issued to Emily Rose in order to remove her from the UK to the US.
The US Department of State continues to withhold the rest of the paperwork that was requested, including the supporting forms for the issuance of the passport and internal communications regarding the role of various State Department officials in removing and hiding Emily Rose in the US.
What does this mean ?
One of the pieces of paper provided purports to be my consent to the issuance of the passport - except the law required my signed notarized consent and guess what - it isn't my signature and it isn't notarized, so where did it come from ?
Interestingly enough, the passport application page is dated January 2003 but the "consent" form is dated April 2002 - does that seem strange to you because it sure does to me.
I'm waiting on the outcome of a show cause motion for Maria Damour to show cause for her contempt of the federal proceedings in Orlando, Florida - the explanation from the US Attorney General is that the defendants i.e. various State Department officials do not recognise the jurisdiction of the federal court in Orlando, Florida.....hmmmmm.
Watch this space.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Karl Hindle-v-US Secretary of State Dr Condoleeza Rice et al - Update on the Federal Action
Hindle-v-Rice Federal action developments
In October 2006, His Honor Judge Gregory Presnell ordered that the parties shall meet in the Middle District of Florida to hold a Case Management Report meeting in the Federal action brought (case number: 06:6cv1527)said meeting to take place within 60 days of the order.
I sent my court order together with my passport and a covering letter requesting a visa to enter the US for the purpose of meeting with the US Attorney General in Orlando to handle the CMR and start getting to grips with the federal legal process. The request was addressed to Maria Damour, Chief of the Non-Immigrant Visa section at the US Embassy London, UK.
It promptly came back with a curt refusal to process a visa without being interviewed, so I contacted the US Embassy visa appointment line but they would not give me an interview date and I was to call again in January 2007.
I explained I had a federal court order and a judge had ordered this meeting and I was directed to send an email with the information and a code in the subject header to the US Embassy.
I received no reply.
I contacted the US Embassy again in January 2007 and again was told I could not be interviewed and I had to send an email duplicating the information I had sent in November 2006. I did this and addressed it to Maria Damour and contacted her assistant at the US Embassy London and advised her of the federal order and the need to travel to Florida as ordered by Judge Presnell.
I have received no reply from Ms Maria Damour.
Maria Damour is also a defendant in the Federal action Hindle-v-Rice.
Make of that what you will.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
US Embassy Refuses Visa for Emily's Dad
I attended the US Embassy London last week for a 9am interview for a visa to travel for the forthcoming trial in October and also to exercise my court ordered visitation with Emily.
After being kept waiting for 7 1/2 hours (yes that's right, seven and a half hours!) I was interviewed at 4.30pm.
My request for a visa to go see Emily was denied as I had been rendered ineligible under s3A(2)INA as I had "harassed the American citizen mother" - I produced my court orders for access and the findings of the Florida court that I had not been harassing or domestically violent together with the order finding the mother in criminal contempt for her behaviour as well as the false police reports filed by Captain Alan Osowski, his deposition and my telephone records (see earlier posts). I was advised that "attorneys in Washington DC had evaluated the orders" and I was still not allowed a visa for court ordered access.
My application for a visa to go for the trial required "administrative processing" and I received the reply today - I am ineligible as I cannot demonstrate sufficient connection to the United Kingdom and I am a presumed immigrant to the United States.
The letter from the US Embassy London and my response are below - enjoy !
After being kept waiting for 7 1/2 hours (yes that's right, seven and a half hours!) I was interviewed at 4.30pm.
My request for a visa to go see Emily was denied as I had been rendered ineligible under s3A(2)INA as I had "harassed the American citizen mother" - I produced my court orders for access and the findings of the Florida court that I had not been harassing or domestically violent together with the order finding the mother in criminal contempt for her behaviour as well as the false police reports filed by Captain Alan Osowski, his deposition and my telephone records (see earlier posts). I was advised that "attorneys in Washington DC had evaluated the orders" and I was still not allowed a visa for court ordered access.
My application for a visa to go for the trial required "administrative processing" and I received the reply today - I am ineligible as I cannot demonstrate sufficient connection to the United Kingdom and I am a presumed immigrant to the United States.
The letter from the US Embassy London and my response are below - enjoy !
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Arrest and Imprisonment - May 2004
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In October 2003, the British High Court in London ordered that Florida had jurisdiction over Emily. We were all ordered to go to Florida for custody proceedings and Emily was sent there in the care of her mother, Sheila Fuith.
I packed my bags and prepared to try my luck at proceedings in the 4th court venue - the third in the United States.
Now as a British citizen, I am normally allowed to travel freely to the US under the visa waiver scheme. I was then advised by Glen Keiser of the State Department that my visa waiver privileges had been revoked and I needed a visa to travel to the US - we had a court hearing set up for February 2004 so I applied for a visa to attend and start the legal process in Florida.
My visa was denied as the State Department claimed I was travelling for unlawful activity - the basis for this was the mothers allegations that she was being stalked and harassed by me in the US - now bear in mind I was in the UK 4,000 miles away and have no criminal record nor an arrest record for anything anywhere.
It became apparent that despite various undertakings to the British High Court (the English Supreme Court) that Sheila would not file any criminal complaints, as soon as her feet hit Florida she commenced filing complaints...some of them very serious, one of which was that I was sexually abusing my children in the UK and was using my eldest daughter for making child pornography.
Nevertheless the British police had investigated and concluded their investigation in January 2004 - they found Sheila was making false allegations to evade the legal process in the US and to deny contact between Emily and I - this didn't cut any ice with the State Department, they were not letting me onto the US for the court hearings.
The hearing was rescheduled for April 2004, and with the help of the British government a visa was issued but it was restricted so I could only attend the court hearing - I had to be out of the US by the 20th April....or else !
I arrived in the US on 4th April 2004 - missing my eldest daughters birthday and it was not to be the first - during depositions it became apparent that Sheila and her attorney, Teresa Anderson, had been given my visa information and that the only source for this information was the State Department
I was denied contact with Emily until on 16th April (the day before my flight home) my attorney was told that I could see Emily the following day - my day to fly home....a nice coincidence indeed. Nicer still, on 17th April after over 6 months I got to see Emily again...supervised by an off duty prison guard, Emily and I could not leave the house or be further than 10 feet from the supervisor (who I had to pay for the privilege of guarding me)...all conditions laid down by Sheila.
I had also been summonsed to attend court on 20th April to defend myself against a domestic violence injunction petition being brought by Sheila.
My attorney, David Ferguson, advised me to stay and extend my visa, so on Friday 16th April we contacted Orlando Border Patrol and asked them what we needed to do - I was told to file a visa extension and have it in the mail with a postmark not later than midnight 19th April 2004.
We did this - the application being mailed from my attorney's offices in Ormond Beach.
On Monday, 19th April, my attorney received a phone call from Teresa Anderson, Sheila's attorney - if Mr Hindle gets on a plane and goes home we will drop the domestic violence hearing - I said no, we'll defend this...and we did....and we won - Judge Doyle ruled..."it is clear to me these proceedings are being brought to gain adantage under the custody proceedings.." - His Honor ruled I was no threat, and I was also awarded unsupervised access with Emily three times a week.
I was enjoying this - seeing Emily again, but it was difficult too - I could not work and I was a world away from home and I had married Yulia, in January 2004 - all in all I just wanted to get the court process finished and get Emily medical treatment for her blindness.
On May 28th 2004, I waited for Emily to be dropped off in the morning for my contact - instead I was approached by two men from immigration...and was arrested for overstaying my visa. I protested I had applied for it to be extended and that I was legal as far as that was concerned. No I wasn't advised Agent Wayne Buehre - as nice a guy as you'd ever wish to be arrested by - and I was handcuffed, belly chained and shackled and taken to Orlando where I was booked into Orange County jail and did not see daylight for 2 weeks.
I was transferred to Bradenton Immigration Detention Facility just outside Tampa where deportation hearings were held - it became clear that I was not being held because I had overstayed my visa - that was a technicality - I was being held because BARBARA GREIG of OFFICE OF CHILDRENS ISSUES, DEPARTMENT OF STATE had represented to immigration that I was a threat and a menace to my daughter, her mother and to American society.
The immigration attorneys acting for the US Government were Attorneys Grimm and Maingott - Grimm was business like and professional while Maingott appeared to me to be a sh*t - in either case, they had been ordered by Washington DC to appeal my release - this meant I would be held incarcerated for 6 months awaiting the Governments appeal and by then I would be deported anyway.
Jail was horrendous - in Orlando I had an attack of scyatica - excruciating back pain - which I had suffered with for 20 years after an accident in the British Army where I had seriously injured myself and my back in particular - they left me on my cot for 2 days without food or drink and without a doctor...unable to move I pissed myself and relied on my cell mates to give me food.
Eventually a doctor came - he performed a nerve test my tickling my feet with a pencil - my right foot jerked but my left foot was dead as a door nail - he observed I had neurological damage and moved me to a medical observation cell (aka solitary in a windowless room) and gave me pain relief....thank you God for ibuprofen !
I stayed in that cell for 4 days - no books, no radio, no TV and no company - I staged a mini protest ripping my identification bracelet off and flushing it down the toilet because they wouldn't let me shower....I stank of piss and body odour ! Immediately 4 guards arrived at this "rebellion" - one told me that I could be punished for destroying government property (i.e. my bracelet) to which I replied what are you going to do, give me extra jail !
I got my shower and a change of bedding and a fresh prison issue jumpsuit.
While at Bradenton, I was in a general holding cell - about 30 guys half Haitian half Hispanic - English was spoken by a minority and the Haitians scared even the guards - one night they ganged up on an Egyptian and kicked the proverbial out of him, dragging him to the telephone so they could beat him with the receiver. I wanted out of there in the worst way !
Chris Keizer was a Canadian being held in the same cell - he'd served several years in a federal prison for some misbehaviour and had been arrested by immigration for deportation on his release. He just wanted to get home too and we played chess all the time - being the only two white guys in this zoo it was natural we would gravitate to each other, not least as him being a bodybuilder it served to keep the Haitians at arms length. He got the idea we could be trustees, so we put in the request form and two days later we were in the trustees cell - fewer people, cleaner kit and more food for not doing very much but at least you were doing something aside from rotting and protecting your arse in the open plan showers and toilets.
Finally, after a month in prison, I took voluntary deportation and returned to the UK - being in prison, I had little contact with the outside world - only being able to contact my lawyer but the experience had a positive side...it showed the hand of Sheila and the people who were helping her......
Why was I arrested ?
Barbara Greig at the State Department gave Sheila and her lawyer, Teresa Anderson my visa information - this allowed them to entrap me in a technical violation of my visa by using access with Emily at the eleventh hour...I was one working day late in filing the extension...and once that happened Barbara Greig went to immigration with a mass of police reports filed by Sheila....but didn't let on that Judge Doyle had dismissed them in April 2004, nor that the British police had found Sheila's allegations were false....hmmmmm !
A fax was sent from Greig to Agent Buehre, who had also made statements to my lawyers, notably David Vedder, a board certified immigration attorney in Ormond Beach....all of this showed that Greig was making out that I was a major threat that needed to be taken care of.....but when David Ferguson contacted her about why I had been arrested, Greig denied any knowledge or involvement....double hmmmm !
The paper trail that has been uncovered indicates Greig, Sheila, Teresa Anderson and a local police officer, Captain Osowski, worked together to rid themselves of big bad me.....they variously lied, misrepresented and acted in a thoroughly unlawful manner including in the case of Captain Osowski, falsifying his police reports (but more of that later).
It turns out that my arrest is unique - no one has been arrested in these circumstances before according to David Vedder and the government attorney, James Grimm - while the State Department has continued to deny any involvement in arranging, instigating or orchestrating my arrest....John Ballif, former director of Office of Childrens Issues wrote to me on this twice categorically denying involvement, while Assistant Secretary of State Harty advised the British Government of no involvement.....yet the immigration arrest report tells a different story....the immigration investigation was predicated on information received from Barabara Greig, Office of Children's Issues, Department of State.
In October 2003, the British High Court in London ordered that Florida had jurisdiction over Emily. We were all ordered to go to Florida for custody proceedings and Emily was sent there in the care of her mother, Sheila Fuith.
I packed my bags and prepared to try my luck at proceedings in the 4th court venue - the third in the United States.
Now as a British citizen, I am normally allowed to travel freely to the US under the visa waiver scheme. I was then advised by Glen Keiser of the State Department that my visa waiver privileges had been revoked and I needed a visa to travel to the US - we had a court hearing set up for February 2004 so I applied for a visa to attend and start the legal process in Florida.
My visa was denied as the State Department claimed I was travelling for unlawful activity - the basis for this was the mothers allegations that she was being stalked and harassed by me in the US - now bear in mind I was in the UK 4,000 miles away and have no criminal record nor an arrest record for anything anywhere.
It became apparent that despite various undertakings to the British High Court (the English Supreme Court) that Sheila would not file any criminal complaints, as soon as her feet hit Florida she commenced filing complaints...some of them very serious, one of which was that I was sexually abusing my children in the UK and was using my eldest daughter for making child pornography.
Nevertheless the British police had investigated and concluded their investigation in January 2004 - they found Sheila was making false allegations to evade the legal process in the US and to deny contact between Emily and I - this didn't cut any ice with the State Department, they were not letting me onto the US for the court hearings.
The hearing was rescheduled for April 2004, and with the help of the British government a visa was issued but it was restricted so I could only attend the court hearing - I had to be out of the US by the 20th April....or else !
I arrived in the US on 4th April 2004 - missing my eldest daughters birthday and it was not to be the first - during depositions it became apparent that Sheila and her attorney, Teresa Anderson, had been given my visa information and that the only source for this information was the State Department
I was denied contact with Emily until on 16th April (the day before my flight home) my attorney was told that I could see Emily the following day - my day to fly home....a nice coincidence indeed. Nicer still, on 17th April after over 6 months I got to see Emily again...supervised by an off duty prison guard, Emily and I could not leave the house or be further than 10 feet from the supervisor (who I had to pay for the privilege of guarding me)...all conditions laid down by Sheila.
I had also been summonsed to attend court on 20th April to defend myself against a domestic violence injunction petition being brought by Sheila.
My attorney, David Ferguson, advised me to stay and extend my visa, so on Friday 16th April we contacted Orlando Border Patrol and asked them what we needed to do - I was told to file a visa extension and have it in the mail with a postmark not later than midnight 19th April 2004.
We did this - the application being mailed from my attorney's offices in Ormond Beach.
On Monday, 19th April, my attorney received a phone call from Teresa Anderson, Sheila's attorney - if Mr Hindle gets on a plane and goes home we will drop the domestic violence hearing - I said no, we'll defend this...and we did....and we won - Judge Doyle ruled..."it is clear to me these proceedings are being brought to gain adantage under the custody proceedings.." - His Honor ruled I was no threat, and I was also awarded unsupervised access with Emily three times a week.
I was enjoying this - seeing Emily again, but it was difficult too - I could not work and I was a world away from home and I had married Yulia, in January 2004 - all in all I just wanted to get the court process finished and get Emily medical treatment for her blindness.
On May 28th 2004, I waited for Emily to be dropped off in the morning for my contact - instead I was approached by two men from immigration...and was arrested for overstaying my visa. I protested I had applied for it to be extended and that I was legal as far as that was concerned. No I wasn't advised Agent Wayne Buehre - as nice a guy as you'd ever wish to be arrested by - and I was handcuffed, belly chained and shackled and taken to Orlando where I was booked into Orange County jail and did not see daylight for 2 weeks.
I was transferred to Bradenton Immigration Detention Facility just outside Tampa where deportation hearings were held - it became clear that I was not being held because I had overstayed my visa - that was a technicality - I was being held because BARBARA GREIG of OFFICE OF CHILDRENS ISSUES, DEPARTMENT OF STATE had represented to immigration that I was a threat and a menace to my daughter, her mother and to American society.
The immigration attorneys acting for the US Government were Attorneys Grimm and Maingott - Grimm was business like and professional while Maingott appeared to me to be a sh*t - in either case, they had been ordered by Washington DC to appeal my release - this meant I would be held incarcerated for 6 months awaiting the Governments appeal and by then I would be deported anyway.
Jail was horrendous - in Orlando I had an attack of scyatica - excruciating back pain - which I had suffered with for 20 years after an accident in the British Army where I had seriously injured myself and my back in particular - they left me on my cot for 2 days without food or drink and without a doctor...unable to move I pissed myself and relied on my cell mates to give me food.
Eventually a doctor came - he performed a nerve test my tickling my feet with a pencil - my right foot jerked but my left foot was dead as a door nail - he observed I had neurological damage and moved me to a medical observation cell (aka solitary in a windowless room) and gave me pain relief....thank you God for ibuprofen !
I stayed in that cell for 4 days - no books, no radio, no TV and no company - I staged a mini protest ripping my identification bracelet off and flushing it down the toilet because they wouldn't let me shower....I stank of piss and body odour ! Immediately 4 guards arrived at this "rebellion" - one told me that I could be punished for destroying government property (i.e. my bracelet) to which I replied what are you going to do, give me extra jail !
I got my shower and a change of bedding and a fresh prison issue jumpsuit.
While at Bradenton, I was in a general holding cell - about 30 guys half Haitian half Hispanic - English was spoken by a minority and the Haitians scared even the guards - one night they ganged up on an Egyptian and kicked the proverbial out of him, dragging him to the telephone so they could beat him with the receiver. I wanted out of there in the worst way !
Chris Keizer was a Canadian being held in the same cell - he'd served several years in a federal prison for some misbehaviour and had been arrested by immigration for deportation on his release. He just wanted to get home too and we played chess all the time - being the only two white guys in this zoo it was natural we would gravitate to each other, not least as him being a bodybuilder it served to keep the Haitians at arms length. He got the idea we could be trustees, so we put in the request form and two days later we were in the trustees cell - fewer people, cleaner kit and more food for not doing very much but at least you were doing something aside from rotting and protecting your arse in the open plan showers and toilets.
Finally, after a month in prison, I took voluntary deportation and returned to the UK - being in prison, I had little contact with the outside world - only being able to contact my lawyer but the experience had a positive side...it showed the hand of Sheila and the people who were helping her......
Why was I arrested ?
Barbara Greig at the State Department gave Sheila and her lawyer, Teresa Anderson my visa information - this allowed them to entrap me in a technical violation of my visa by using access with Emily at the eleventh hour...I was one working day late in filing the extension...and once that happened Barbara Greig went to immigration with a mass of police reports filed by Sheila....but didn't let on that Judge Doyle had dismissed them in April 2004, nor that the British police had found Sheila's allegations were false....hmmmmm !
A fax was sent from Greig to Agent Buehre, who had also made statements to my lawyers, notably David Vedder, a board certified immigration attorney in Ormond Beach....all of this showed that Greig was making out that I was a major threat that needed to be taken care of.....but when David Ferguson contacted her about why I had been arrested, Greig denied any knowledge or involvement....double hmmmm !
The paper trail that has been uncovered indicates Greig, Sheila, Teresa Anderson and a local police officer, Captain Osowski, worked together to rid themselves of big bad me.....they variously lied, misrepresented and acted in a thoroughly unlawful manner including in the case of Captain Osowski, falsifying his police reports (but more of that later).
It turns out that my arrest is unique - no one has been arrested in these circumstances before according to David Vedder and the government attorney, James Grimm - while the State Department has continued to deny any involvement in arranging, instigating or orchestrating my arrest....John Ballif, former director of Office of Childrens Issues wrote to me on this twice categorically denying involvement, while Assistant Secretary of State Harty advised the British Government of no involvement.....yet the immigration arrest report tells a different story....the immigration investigation was predicated on information received from Barabara Greig, Office of Children's Issues, Department of State.
Emily's Eye Condition - Blindness unless treated
When Emily was 5 months old, our pediatrician noted that her eyes appeared slightly cross eyed - her right eye turned inwards in what is known as esotropia.Now this was nothing in itself, this condition is seen in many children but it is a warning flag for a doctor to make further examinations and this is exactly what happened - we were referred to Dr Bell, the senior opthamologist at the county hospital in Essex UK.
After several weeks of testing, examinations and consultation by a team of medical eye specialists the diagnosis was produced when Emily was 6 months old. The news shocked both Sheila and myself - Emily was severely vision impaired in her right eye and in all likelihood was blind but we couldn't be sure as she was so young. The good news was that we had caught the condition very early and the prognosis for recovery was good.
I carried Emily out of the hospital in her carry chair with one hand, and her mother, Sheila, with the other - both of us were in tears.
Emily was diagnosed with an "amblyopia" as the cause of her vision problems and we embarked on a regimen of "patching therapy" to treat Emily's blind eye which entailed weekly visits to Broomfield Hospital where Emily was treated by the team of eye specialists tasked with her care - these included Dr McCabe, Dr Jackson, Dr Omi and Dr Bell among others.
Surgery was considered to correct the alignment of her eye but this in itself will do nothing for her poor vision - left to itself the eye will not improve and it will degenerate until Emily is blind in the eye completely.
We treated Emily for 5 months in England until Sheila took Emily to the United States in February 2003. As soon as Emily was in the US, Sheila claimed that the eye problem was "no big deal" it was just a lazy eye and nothing serious was wrong. At other times Sheila has claimed she was getting Emily medical treatment, that Emily had been cured and that she had no money for medical treatment.
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