Search customer not sucessful

Can anyone please help me out here? I could create the customer via web services. When I search the same customer I created by providing the customer id and status, it failed. I can't seem to go anywhere. Please take a look at my code and provide your input.

Private Sub SearchCustomer(ByVal sID As String, ByVal sStatusList As String)
        '         // Instantiate a search object for customers. Note that the search'
        '  // object is different from the regular record used for add and update.

        Try
            Dim custSearch As New CustomerSearch
            Dim custSearchBasic As New CustomerSearchBasic

            '------------------------------------------------
            '/ Search the customer entity id which is a string field