They've had an ongoing series on one of the tv stations here on contractors sent out by Home Depot. One of those "it's so bad, we'll give them a chance to clean themselves up". But it was just as bad when the station revisted it 6 months later.

I think that's how Jiffy Lube was caught here also.

>Most tv stations have a consumer help system like channel 5 here is '5 on your side' etc. It is used all the time. Typically it is about contract woes though like Dragan experienced. I wonder if he ever contacted one of his local tv stations?
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>>I wonder about these things also. I remember growing up in NY. The local paper had a consumer help column. A magazine I subscribed to screwed up my subscription, ending it several months prematurely. It was a big deal to a teenager, so I wrote to the consumer column.
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>>It got published. And typically because a big company is getting named in a bad light in public, they typically fix the problem and and throw in some extras also.
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>>I don't think my situation would have been satisfactorily resolves without help, and I'm sure there are far more egregious situations that mine that the people involved don't know where to turn to.
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>>>>I'm glad to see that you are so clairvoient that you know that there's a 5% chance of deportation.
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>>>>Of course this has to do with our enhanced "terror alert" as well as immigration situation. I think that this case could possibly have been resolved earlier if the story made the news before.
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>>>>But these types of stories didn't become popular until recent times.
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>>>Every time something like this happens I wonder how many thousands of similar cases are out there that will get nowhere simply because they don't sound ridiculous enough to get into the papers - or the people involved just don't want publicity. If taking a bureaucratic snafu to the media is the only way to fix it, then there's a grave danger to anything that remains invisible.
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>>>Just to be clear: the couple in question would have been better off reporting their marriage to the INS and then probably losing their visas or losing a few years in the process.
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>>>There should be a statute of limitations for INS's process. If they weren't able to read and apply the law for 17 years, they should be slapped, not applauded. Or, in the slang of my elementary school, they should "get an applause over the violin".