The Nicaraguan lawyer and human rights defender Pablo Cuevas denies any connection with the accusations made against him by the American lawyer of single parents Astrid Montealegre, who has formally accused him before the American justice system of having “defrauded” several fellow migrants with advice that he did not is authorized to provide and that for this reason some, supposedly, have been deported or have received deportation orders.
The exiled defender has assured independent media that the lawyer Montealegre’s problem is part of a lawsuit over money because, according to the defender, it is a “war” to remove the “form preparers” from the game.
Astrid Montealegre is a lawyer born in the United States, to Nicaraguan parents who migrated to that country in 1979, after the Sandinista Front came to power.
She is currently dedicated to providing her private legal services on issues of migration and passage, she works with the NGO Nicaraguan American Human Rights Alliance (NAHRA), of which she is one of the founders and from where she provides free help to exiles, according to what she states. on social networks.
The complaint
On October 5, Montealegre filed a formal complaint with the US justice system against human rights defender Pablo Cuevas because, supposedly, from the organization Nicaraguan Human Rights Defender (DNDH), founded by him after leaving Nicaragua to exile “has been providing incorrect information about immigration processes in the United States and due to this incorrect information more than 20 victims have received deportation orders.”
Montealegre has stated that he even tried to make Cuevas desist from continuing to offer immigration services or register his organization in the proper instances.
The American lawyer also denounces on her social networks that the organization created and directed by Cuevas “is not registered in the Recognition and Accreditation Program of the Office of Legal Access Programs (OLAP).”
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“Nicaraguan Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office is not on the list of organizations approved to provide support and advice in migration cases,” says Montealegre’s complaint.
“Pablo Cuevas, I thank you for desist from providing legal advice without the permits and legal supervision required by United States federal law,” says lawyer Montealegre through Facebook.
Cuevas: “It is a war against form preparers”
Lawyer Pablo Cuevas, who in Nicaragua has been a renowned human rights defender, has stated to independent media that neither he nor DNDH provide legal advice on immigration matters, that the organization he directs when it receives a case that seeks help on that issue , refers you to a “serious law firm,” which is duly qualified as “immigration facilitators, legally incorporated in the United States.”
He assures that the only private complaint he knows of is that of the lawyer Montealegre and the tiktoker Kevin Mozón.
Cuevas told the newspaper La Prensa that the services offered by DNDH to prepare the forms can cost up to $2,000, which its clients can pay in installments. Justify that price with how expensive photocopies are in the US and the preparer’s fee.
The defender did make it clear that this is “a war between lawyers and form preparers” and that Montealegre’s complaint is actually an attempt to remove the preparers from that service.
“Here there is an open war between some lawyers and among preparers of forms,” Cuevas told La Prensa.
Lawyer Montealegre, consulted by Article 66denied such a war between lawyers and preparers and assured that what he is denouncing is demonstrated in the evidence that he has presented before the American justice system.
«I do not know nor participate in any war, much less discredit. The complaint that I have presented is based on complaints and testimonies from different victims’ organizations such as the April Victims Organization (OVA), the April Mothers Association (AMA), and activists such as Félix Maradiaga, Mürel Sáenz and Damaris Rostrán,” stated Montealegre.
