The Sacramento Bee reported that President Barack Obama didn’t wait for Congress to rewrite the nation’simmigration laws to help millions who are in the United States illegally stay in the country. He halted deportations of those who came to the United States when they were young, those who...
Our Philadelphia immigration lawyers recently filed a Writ of Mandamus in Federal District Court in Pennsylvania seeking to compel USCIS to take the action our clients' long pending Forms I-130 and I-485. The filing of the Writ of Mandamus resulted in the approval of both...
When an immigrant applies for asylum and loses in Immigration Court, he has two appeals. The first appeal is to the Board of Immigration Appeals. If the immigrant loses that appeal, he is allowed to appeal his case to the federal court. As we have...
Our immigration lawyers recently aided a foreign national with extraordinary ability in the sciences obtain an EB-1A petition approval, thereby giving our client the opportunity to continue his research in the United States that will undoubtedly aid health care in the United States. The EB-1A visa...
Getson & Schatz aided a European multi-national corporation transfer one of its employees with specialized knowledge about the Company's processes and procedures from a European subsidiary to its U.S. subsidiary by obtaining an L-1B visa for this foreign worker. L visas, or intracompany transferee visas, are available...
The American Immigration Council reported that a recent settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of asylum seekers is removing obstacles they faced in obtaining work documents while they pursue their asylum claims. The inability to work for lengthy periods of time has...
Bloomberg Businessweek reported that the Obama administration has cut back on deporting undocumented immigrants, with forced departures on track to drop more than 10 percent, the first annual decline in more than a decade. In his first term, President Barack Obama highlighted record deportations to show...
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that demonstrators chanting in Spanish and English demanded a halt to deportations - " Ni una mas," or "Not one more" - and blocked two driveways at the detention center of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Philadelphia on Wednesday. The action by...
The White House on Tuesday would not categorically rule out future executive actions to address immigration, while continuing to maintain "there is not" anything the president could do in lieu of congressional action on comprehensive reform. “I don’t want to speculate about what sort of actions...
Our Philadelphia immigration lawyers secured a grant of cancellation of removal for one of our clients in Immigration Court in Philadelphia, PA. Our client, a national of Ghana, came to Getson & Schatz after being placed into removal proceedings following the rejection of two prior I-130...
