DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

By:  Richard Hanus, Esq. August 19, 2026 Our government under the current administration has never been more active when it comes to the enforcement of our immigration laws, and often in ways our federal courts have had to intervene with [...]

By: Richard Hanus, Esq. May 24, 2026 Last Friday the Trump Administration released a memorandum reversing decades of established policy and legal interpretation when it comes to intending immigrants and a popular option to process applications for permanent residence (Green [...]

By: Richard Hanus, Esq. May 30, 2025 In recent years, the U.S. government, during the Biden Administration, granted more than 500,000 foreign nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela a temporary right to live and work in the U.S.  The [...]

By:  Richard Hanus, Esq. April 25, 2025 Back in 1940 Congress enacted an “alien registration” law requiring foreign nationals to submit biographic details to the U.S. government by way of a formal registration process and carry proof of their registration. [...]

By:  Richard Hanus, Esq. December 24, 2024 As we near a second Trump administration entering office and implementing yet to be determined muscular immigration enforcement measures, expect to hear a steady increase in alarming stories of vulnerable immigrants getting scammed [...]

By:  Richard Hanus, Esq. May 5, 2024 Even for me, a 30-year immigration law veteran, the new US Department of Homeland Security/Citizenship and Immigration Services (US CIS) filing fee schedule can present a menacing head ache.    In so many contexts, [...]

By: Richard Hanus, Esq. January 31, 2024 It’s always around Thanksgiving when chatter starts swirling about when the next chance to obtain an H-1B work visa will happen.  A couple months later employers and their prospective H-1B workers get news [...]

The barriers to gaining a green card or citizenship in the United States are significant. On average, there are nearly four million people waiting for a quarter-of-a-million green cards in any given year. An immigration attorney can often improve applicant's [...]

In 2021, 13.6 % of the U.S. population was born in a foreign country. That means that a large number of people require the help of an immigration attorney. But finding the right immigration law firm is a challenging task. [...]