DHS’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report on the Performance of 287(g) Agreements which provides the same dreary account of the program as the first one. The April 2010 report found that ICE and its local law enforcement partners have not complied...
While some fault the foreclosure crisis for the swell in vacant homes and continuing drop in home prices, recent Census data reveals that immigrants—or lack thereof—may be a bigger factor contributing to the housing glut than people may realize. According to Fortune Magazine, steady...
Our law firm represented an F-1 student in the process of applying for a green card based upon her marriage to a U.S. Citizen who she met while attending University. We provided USCIS with documentation of the bona fides of their marriage including joint bank...
Our clients had met each other in high school at the age of 16 when the foreign national, an Australian Citizen, had come to the U.S. as a J-1 exchange visitor to attend high school. Our clients fell in love with each other in high...
Our Philadelphia Immigration Lawyers successfully represented a client from Haiti in both the processing of an Application for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and an Application for Adjustment of Status based upon a Marriage to a Untied States Citizen. The TPS was processed earlier this year...
Our immigration law firm represents a wide variety of clients from individuals to multi-million dollar multi-national corporations. We prepared and filed an L-1B specialized knowledge petition to enable one of the largest manufacturers of electrical testing equipment in the world with in excess of $125...
Due to the high standard of receiving an approval for an EB-1A Extraordinary Ability Petition, we generally advise our clients to wait until the I-140 Petition is approved prior to filing the I-485 Application for a green card. We recently received a green card approval...
Our immigration lawyers successfully filed an H-1B extension petition for an Assistant Professor at a Community College. The Petition was filed prior to the expiration of the prior authorized period of H-1B status which automatically extended the work authorization for a period of 240 days....
Our client, a citizen of India, had a pending green card application in the EB-2 category that was subject to visa backlogs. His brother had filed an I-130 Petition for Alien Relative back in 2001 which was approved and the priority date of the I-130...
A client came to our immigration law office in Philadelphia, PA for a consultation and brought a Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID) from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued in connection to an I-485 Adjustment of Status Application. The client had filed...
