In 2004, Zahid applied for US citizenship under qualified military service , choosing this route instead of doing so as a permanent legal immigrant from Pakistan married to a US citizen, or applying under other provisions under which he also qualified, such as family ties, etc. The Chaudhrys have for the past six years seen many of Zahid's immigrant comrades-in-arms --" many with much less stellar records than his own -- be granted US citizenship under this provision of immigration policy, while this has been repeatedly and unreasonably denied to him.
The US Citizen and Immigration Service office in Yakima kept postponing his citizenship test, always saying that Zahid was in a "name check" loop; this would indefinitely delay any decision on their part, since, as they told the Chaudhrys, "The clock doesn't start ticking until the citizenship test has been given." "Name check" is commonly used by the USCIS as a delaying tactic; they don't have to make a decision until the test has been administered; then they have to make a decision within 120 days. That never happened for Zahid Chaudhry; he is still waiting after over six years.
Since the USCIS office in Yakima kept postponing Zahid's citizenship test, always saying that they needed to run a "name check" that never happened, the Chaudhrys in 2005 went to Washington DC to see their congressman, Richard "Doc" Hastings, as well as Washington State's US Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. When they arrived at Congressman Hasting's DC office and requested to see him, they heard him personally tell aides thru an opaque screen behind which he was sitting that he would not see them.
The Chaudhrys then talked to Hastings' aides for hours, after threatening to stage a hunger strike in front of the White House. The aides promised to discuss their case with Hastings, but nothing ever happened. In a federal document obtained by Freedom of Information Act four years later, the Chaudhrys found notes from one of Hastings' aides to a USCIS agent, asking if they should keep telling the Chaudhrys the lie that Zahid was still in the "name check loop".
Although Zahid Chaudhry has many glowing letters of recommendation from many public officials at the local, state and federal levels -- including a former regional commissioner of the USCIS, and a highly placed attorney with the US Department of Justice, who, after a deportation trial deposition in July 2010, has also stated that this government persecution against this decorated disabled Muslim veteran is a waste of taxpayers' money -- the implacably ruthless USCIS is still going to move to deport Zahid to Pakistan and separate him from his wife and adopted family, including his four adopted grandchildren, in January of 2011.Â
The USCIS' spurious grounds for this action are a framed misdemeanor conviction during 1993 in Sydney, Australia --outside both US jurisdiction and the federal statute of limitations -- as well as an allegedly forged check mark on a box on Zahid's Yakima Police Department Volunteer Reserve application on which he allegedly fraudulently claimed citizenship.Â
Just after September 11, 2001, Yakima Police records historian/volunteer reserve coordinator Gary Belles took possession of Zahid Chaudhry's application file for the Yakima Police Volunteer Reserve, after he had applied for the reserve in the spring of that year.  Belles supposedly did so to check his records.Â
A number of those whom Zahid listed as references reported to the Chaudhrys that Belles had asked them unreasonable questions that seemed to be designed to elicit certain responses from them that would have been incriminatory to Zahid.
Gary Belles has since then been involved in a number of cases where he has been publicly accused of prejudice against other races and religions, and has been several times investigated by the City of Yakima concerning these accusations. Belles also revealed under oath during a deposition for Zahid Chaudhry's deportation trial in July, 2010, several key pieces of evidence against himself and the US government: That Zahid's secondary interview and polygraph test supposedly for the Yakima Police Department volunteer reserve position was a total ruse to get evidence against him to be given by Belles to the FBI; Belles had already determined that Zahid, because he was a Muslim, would not be chosen for this volunteer position and had already told all of this to the FBI; Belles revealed that, during Zahid Chaudhry's Yakima Police Department polygraph test, he was asked if he were a US citizen, and he answered, "No". The US government has known this since that time -- 2001 -- and yet they continue to falsely charge that Zahid fraudulently claimed US citizenship.
Also, during the time that Gary Belles was the YPD records historian/volunteer reserve coordinator, Zahid's original application for YPD reserve volunteer position with the allegedly forged check mark allegedly showing that he lied in writing about his citizenship status, had disappeared from the Yakima City Records Department, only to recently resurface with a suspiciously doctored-looking check mark on the "Yes" for citizenship box.
Belles also gave a copy of Zahid's YPD reserve file to Special Agent David Hendrix of the FBI's regional office in Yakima, with the implication that he might be a potential terrorist. This is what instigated the many inteviews/polygraph tests that he had to endure in Yakima at the city police and regional FBI headquarters. Just last year, Gary Belles was reported as addressing different right-wing extremist groups, boasting that he had done more than enough in the past to make sure that Zahid Chaudhry will never be able to join the Yakima Police Department's volunteer reserve.
After employing several incompetent attorneys, the Chaudhrys finally retained the firm that many regard as the best immigration attorneys in Washington State: Gibbs, Houston, Pauw, which filed a Motion to Dismiss Zahid's USCIS deportation case in the US District Court. These attorneys did this because a favorable decision in the US District Court could have superseded any unfavorable to the Chaudhrys in the US Immigration Court. Â
However, on October 26, 2010, the US District Court in Yakima summarily dismissed the Chaudhry's case, thereby preventing any legal disclosure of the Chaudhry's massive evidence against the US government and its ruthless persecution of them both. Then the Gibbs, Houston, Pauw law firm immediately dropped Zahid as their client, claiming that the Chaudhrys had not paid their exorbitant legal bills, even though the Chaudhrys had faithfully made all of their regular monthly payments. This has left Zahid without legal representation during this crucial time before his final hearing before the US Immigration Court in January 2011. Â
Apparent US government harassment of the Chaudhrys has now resumed. White Chevrolet Impalas, now the law enforcement vehicle of choice, have begun to appear before both of their houses in Lacey and Yakima, Washington. Recently, one of these followed them over Snoqualmie Pass to the apartment complex where this author was staying. That same evening, the Chaudhrys, from their experience with government monitoring, were able to identify a plastic disc with a battery-like object attached that this author had found beneath her tea kettle as a surveillance device. In the past two weeks, the Chaudhrys' personal computer hard drive was also destroyed by a targeted virus.
Further, Zahid Chaudhry just got word that the US Customs and Immigration Service, with savagely sadistic irony, has granted his father, mother and sister visas to come live in the US in January 2011 -- just at the time when he might be deported. This means that if he is deported and his family decides to emigrate to the US, Zahid as a paraplegic will have no one with whom to live in Pakistan who can physically assist him in a country where disability support is not readily available. lt is also likely that once he is in Pakistan, now in the process of being violently destabilized by the American Empire and its black operations, Zahid, left alone, will be targeted, just like he has been in the US, but there having much less protection; he may be disappeared, tortured and killed with impunity.
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