Our lawyers represent a large engineering firm in Philadelphia, PA in the handling of all of their immigration matters. The engineering firm had hired an F-1 student on Optional Practical Training whose work authorization expired on August 21, 2010. The engineering firm wanted to continue...
In 2008 our client was granted asylum as she had applied for asylum within one year of her entry to the United States and feared returning to her home country on account of her political opinion. In 2009, when a year had passed since her...
Following receipt of certification of a PERM Labor Certification on behalf of Professor that was filed by a prestigious university in the State of Kansas, we filed an I-140 Petition for Immigrant Worker with the Nebraska Service Center. In support of the Petition we provided...
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced a change to the security enhancements to its telephone case information system. As previously announced for the August 30, 2010, launch of phase one, EOIR successfully moved the system to a more stable and reliable server...
A client sought legal advice from our attorneys after he had filed a green card application with another lawyer on the basis of his marriage to a Untied States Citizen that was denied because the client had a criminal conviction that rendered him inadmissible to...
Prior to April 30, 2001 our firm filed a sibling I-130 Petition on behalf of a client who had overstayed a visitor visa in the 1990s and was physically present in the United States on December 21, 2000 enabling the client to be grandfathered under...
We had previously assisted a client in obtaining asylum from Liberia, filing for a green card and obtaining a waiver of inadmissibility to the United States (which was required at the time) since he was HIV positive. Following approval of his green card we filed...
The Obama administration is changing the federal immigration enforcement strategy in ways that reduce the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants, even as states such as Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio and Texas are pushing to accelerate deportations.The changes focus enforcement on immigrants who...
Undocumented immigrants who decide to leave the United States because of increasing enforcement and decreasing job prospects now face one more obstacle: the threat of arrest and deportation by border officers inspecting outbound traffic. Bonnie Arellano, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said...
Matter of Legaspi, Int. Dec. 3694, 25 I&N Dec. 328 (BIA 2010) - An alien is not independently “grandfathered” for purposes of adjustment of status under section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1255(i) (2006), simply by virtue of marriage to another...
