J-1 Visa and my sponsor company let me go

Hello there,

I am currently on a J-1 Trainee Visa in the US.
I started with this company in mid of September 2006. I worked a full-time job with only a part-time salary and then I had a car accident. That was by end of October 2006. I totaled my car and so I didn't have a vehicle to get to my work. Well, I started to work from home as much as possible.
This week they let me know that they would like to have me only from poject to project based. Basically they suggested that I should find a company which can fully provide a training in the areas of PR and Marketing. But that was not the deal in the beginning. They were aware of the fact that I am still in an entry level and that I have to learn.
The CEO of the company wanted to give me a full-time postion with a full-time salary by mid of October 2006 and later on he offered his help to get me my own car. And that was even before the car accident. But none of these agreements have been kept.
The thing is, if they tell the organisation which helped me with the paperwork for the visa, I have to leave the country within the next 10 days.

It's a tricky case, but is there any legal way to prevent this and/or to sue this company?

Thanks for the help and feel free to contact me with any further questions on that case!

Best,
Franziska

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking... Are you looking for a way to stay in the country or just a way to sue the company?

If it's the latter, it's a question of whether you can "prove" that they broke an agreement with you. If you have the agreement in writing, this should be relatively easy. Consult an employment or a business litigation attorney. If all the promises were verbal, you probably should move on and chalk this one up to experience.

Lesson: Business is done in writing. If it's important to you, or you aren't willing to risk a person breaking an agreement or going back on a promise, get it in writing! Even if you don't sue, you'll have proof you can waive in their face that they actually agreed to something.

Most likely this is a case of a miscommunication in a business dealing that was never written down, and of course, now the aggrieved side is upset.

Please move this post to the business section, from the immigration section.

Thanks,
EXPERT