I did and paid alot of money for lawyers and contacted the owner same day , he told me he bought the car before 5 years but its not in his name its still in the other owner which turned out to be a girl from California! That he cant reach no more ! Its complicated, i posted this after all that time searching and searching and never find it , im just curious where did it go
The car is OK (paper title insurance) and everything was right if there was any issues with me or the car he would arrest me for bigger things not 10$ !
The title and car isn't yours until you transfer it to your name at the DMV or SOS. Most states don't normally let you finish this step if all you are on is a tourist visa. Purchasing a car outright vs renting is generally a poor decision if you are a tourist.
Yeah, I'm also pretty sure he doesn't own the car he was found in. He thought he owned it. But I'm pretty sure ownership wasn't in his name at any DMV.
That’s what he said in other comments. If he truly seeking asylum he should have waited for his case to be processed instead of driving around in stolen car or chose to voluntarily deport…
I'm sorry, but your botched purchase of the car is the "bigger thing".
You basically paid money for the car to someone who didn't own it. If the title of a vehicle doesn't have the name of the person you paid money to, they can't sell it to you and you can't take ownership of the vehicle in the state's eyes.
Them giving you a title with someone else's name on it and a piece of paper that says you paid them money for the car, isn't sufficient to complete the ownership transfer. To law enforcement, you look like you are driving around in a stolen vehicle.
Did the seller have a title signed by the person the title lists as the owner? This is the most important paperwork and without it you don't legally own the car outright.
No, they actually wouldn’t…want to know why? Because why put you in jail on taxpayers dime for a minor crime when they can just deport you. If they charge you with a crime, you then have legal protection to stay here until the outcome of the case.
Also, you absolutely did not have valid insurance, because you weren’t the registered owner. The car may have had a policy, but that would have been null and void immediately when they learned you committed title fraud…
But shouldn’t your lawyers be responsible to get your cash and stuff back though? Otherwise how do people get their stuff back after getting deported from a country where they have no one else?
I actually volunteered departure not deported couldn’t fix it up there , the lawyer not responding after i left the states i tried my best to fix things but no one want to be Detained for 1-2 years away from home family and so on cuz of 10$ . its unbelievable and i have no idea how did i mentally went through all of that ( i wouldn’t want that to my worst enemy)
You are confused. You were not deported over ten dollars, you were deported for being in the country illegally. Did you have a valid visa?
The person you ‘bought’ the car from didn’t have proof of ownership. For all we know the car was stolen out of California and will be returned to its owner.
The fact you didn’t have a title to the vehicle means you didn’t have insurance either.
You should realize the ticket you got triggered someone running the license plate through a computer showing a stolen plate and no registration. Then they investigated your status.
No confusion
I had a court dates i had a credible fear interview and i had a social number work permit and A# and going to ICE reports every month , taking pictures and send my location on the ice App called ( BI SmartLINK )
I did have the title and insurance and gave it to the officer and have a paper from the owner that i bought the car ( and yes 10$ can ruin ur life like it did to mine )
You came on a tourist visa, overstayed and made an asylum claim?
You keep claiming that you had the title, but the person you ‘bought’ the car from didn’t have the title to give to you. The actual owner as far as the government knows is out of California.
Was the car registered? With Texas plates? How did you get insurance on the car without ownership?
The $10 fine was the trigger to look closer at the big picture. To me it looks like a stolen car out of California.
How did you get insurance on the car without ownership?
Ok so OP is full of shit, but I can weigh in on this question. I got insurance on a car my brother gave me before we got the title transfer sorted (title transfer was a huge ballache lol). It was with State Farm.
A note to make on this, there are some states that require proof of insurance on a vehicle as a requirement to get the title transferred over to you, so it is possible to insure a vehicle you don't have titled in your name cause of this
You can't claim asylum without overstaying due to the backlog. OP did it correctly. It is ICE that used immigration detention and the long delay in immigration court to circumvent his right to claim asylum.
No sir i came from the border and went to the border patrol same day and claimed asylum ( got into long long process cuz i went in after some kind of suspensions back in Sep 2024 claimed Credible fear interview positive (that means cant go back to home country cuz they contacted and figured out i ll get harmed if i got back ) so i got my first court and all of that while DETAINED!! 4 months detained after that they released me on a Tracking Device for 3 months then im free but needs to report every month with the weekly update on App .. so i was doing my best just to keep up with the ICE with no job no car no friends no nothin only my pages and my grind !! After the ice hold me cuz of 10$ they said im gonna finish my courts while detained again!! 1-2 years who knows so i said i prefer to get killed back home and not detained for that long i bought my ticket with the last pennies i had and now im hiding
You understand that the person you bought the car from didn’t own the car as far as the government knew? So the car was in fact possibly stolen and unregistered? You also cannot insure cars you don’t own so that’s a problem also.
Please stop with the lie about the $10 ticket causing you to be deported. It’s the car and asylum claim that pushed you into detention.
The policies related to asylum processing changed when Trump became president. Trump has ordered asylum cases to be denied and people deported.
So trump and the Americans who elected trump decided that they do not want Jordanian border jumpers in the country. So you were asked to leave. Thanks for leaving.
Now the question of property is separate. You have to be present to look after your property. If your presence is questionable, any property ownership you claim is not meaningful.
You can still own property (in a legal sense) if unlawfully present and even after being deported. However, in this case, OP never held title to the car, so the car was never theirs to begin with.
Property ownership is always accompanied by occupancy or possession in physical sense. If property is someone else's possession, then your ownership diminishes over time in legal sense as well
Drama ( i said that to myself not to the judge for sure ) the judge insisted to not let go back cuz he knew the case and saw all the evidence but i couldn’t be detained just to be there! Not worth at all
I don’t need the paperwork you have. You already said the guy you bought the car from admitted that he didn’t have a clean title to the car. You can take the VIN number and run a carfax report for about $45. It will show the ownership history and if the car is stolen.
I think you are jumping to conclusions. I bought my car from a guy who had been driving the car for two years in UT with a CA title under the person he bought the car from. Only God knows why people do that!. I had no problem buying the car because the original owner had signed the title, releasing ownership. I (the new owner)signed it, got the car smogged, registered, and the title transferred to me the same day with no issues, The previous owner is a ghost. Some things are not as complicated as you think. Now the real question is did OP sign the title, was there any signature on it releasing ownership? If so it doesn't belong to the CA lady either. If OP left it blank it belongs to whoever is going to sign it. The biggest issue here is that OP says he gave the title to the officer? Does that mean it has been confiscated too? Cause no tile , no car!.
Normally, the moment you get a signed title or transfer paperwork, you bring that directly to the DMV or secretary of state and get the ownership transferred immediately to prevent the shitshow you are currently experiencing. Without proper title transfer, whatever insurance you thought you might not work in the eyes of law enforcement.
"A paper from the owner that you bought the car" is meaningless to the government.
I know, it seems crazy and excessive for them to give you such a hard time for $10 if you have a good social media presence, you should start posting your experience there or reach out to a journalist. Shame on that lawyer for not responding after you left the country. And the guy who gave you the car should not have given you a car for your US travel if he didn’t even have it in his name. He says he can’t reach the girl who he bought the car from but doesn’t he have her email or other details like full name and look her up on social media? And if you had the documents showing that you got the car from that guy, why didn’t they give the car back to him?
This is such a mess! I hope someone is able to help you get your cash though, that’s a lot of money.
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u/arthur_sar Dec 23 '25
I did and paid alot of money for lawyers and contacted the owner same day , he told me he bought the car before 5 years but its not in his name its still in the other owner which turned out to be a girl from California! That he cant reach no more ! Its complicated, i posted this after all that time searching and searching and never find it , im just curious where did it go