By Richard Hanus|2025-04-25T08:13:24-05:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
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|2024-12-25T15:30:16-06:00December 25th, 2024|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
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|2024-05-13T20:22:42-05:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
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|2024-01-31T18:32:16-06:00January 31st, 2024|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
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 [...]
By Richard Hanus|2023-09-09T06:47:56-05:00September 8th, 2023|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), DHS / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. September 8, 2023 A foreign national who obtains a U.S. work visa or otherwise enters the U.S. to fill a job can be particularly vulnerable to employer abuse, especially if that worker is desperate to make [...]
By writers-amwn|2023-07-20T08:41:52-05:00July 20th, 2023|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
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 [...]
By writers-amwn|2023-05-29T08:28:35-05:00May 29th, 2023|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
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. [...]
By Richard Hanus|2023-03-19T16:49:48-05:00March 19th, 2023|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. March 19, 2023 Ask any user of the U.S. immigration system and they will tell you that there are not many things more frustrating than trying to obtain case status or general information by way of [...]
By Richard Hanus|2023-02-06T07:24:28-06:00February 5th, 2023|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. Published – February 5, 2023 If you are a foreign national living in the U.S. trying to renew your Permanent Resident Card (aka “Green Card”) or Employment Authorization Document (EAD), chances are you are all too [...]
By Richard Hanus|2022-10-30T16:33:36-05:00October 30th, 2022|Categories: Citizenship / Naturalization and the N-400 Application, DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. Published October 30, 2022 Processing times for N-400 applications Lawful permanent residents living in the Chicago area and across the U.S. are seeing their applications for U.S. citizenship processed at record pace. For my clients across [...]
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