CQ reported that lawmakers from both parties are attempting to influence the Department of Homeland Security’s implementation of a new deportation policy. In letters sent Tuesday to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., a group of 69 House Democrats asked...
Our firm received approval for a FY-2012 H-1B Petition filed by a Company that provides money transfer services from the United States to a foreign country. The H-1B Petition was for a Computer Systems Analyst to develop the Company’s internal payment-processing infrastructure to integrate with...
Our client is a native of Barbados who married a United States citizen in 2003. They have 3 United States citizen children. Our client had utilized the services of a non-lawyer to file her initial green card application. The green card application was not prepared...
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. NAFTA provides for a special nonimmigrant visa - called a TN visa - for citizens of Canada or Mexico to work temporarily in the United States in certain...
The Los Angeles Times reported that the U.S. has deported more than 160,000 immigrants, the vast majority of whom had no legal representation — and signed documents they may not have understood — under a program that carries severe penalties should they reenter the country,...
Our firm represented a United States citizen who married a citizen of another country who entered the U.S. legally with a visa in B-2 visitor status but overstayed his authorized period of stay. The wife and husband were both competitive tennis players and had met...
Our client is engaged to a citizen of Canada. She wanted her fiancé to come to the United States so that they could marry and live together in the United States as husband and wife. Under our current immigration laws, the fiancé(e) of a U.S....
The ACLU published that a federal appeals court ruled today that detaining immigrants for prolonged periods of time without a bond hearing is unconstitutional. The decision, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, held that immigrants may be detained for only...
The Chicago Sun Times reported that opponents of illegal immigrants are so busy portraying the Obama administration’s new relaxed deportation policy as a back-door amnesty program that Rep. Luis Gutierrez is worried some people are going to get the wrong idea, namely the immigrants themselves....
Our firm provided legal representation in the process of a United States Citizen sponsoring her husband for a green card. The foreign national held H-1B status and needed to travel outside the US while his adjustment of status application was pending. Under the immigration laws,...
