By Richard Hanus|2012-11-12T09:09:45-06:00November 12th, 2012|Categories: Amnesty for Immigrants in the U.S., Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment Authorization / Work Cards in the U.S., Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|Tags: comprehensive immigration reform, DREAM Act, Hispanic Vote, Obama, path to legalization, Romney|
Published: November 12, 2012 According to many of our nation’s leading pundits and political commentators, it was the “Hispanic Vote” that made President Obama’s reelection possible. What exactly is the “Hispanic Vote”? It seems to have a variety of meanings, [...]
By Richard Hanus|2012-11-03T09:06:33-05:00November 3rd, 2012|Categories: Conditional Permanent Residence Based on Marriage, Employment Authorization / Work Cards in the U.S., Family-Based Immigration Law, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings|Tags: abusive U.S. citizen, Battered Spouses, Cancellation of Removal as a Battered Spouse, extreme hardship, foreign nationals, good faith, good moral character, I-360 Battered Spouse Self Petition, I-751 waiver request, Immigration Court, Joint I-751, physical abuse, physical or extreme mental abuse, protected class|
Published: November 3, 2012 The battered spouse, whether a man or woman, is a protected class in the world of immigration law. Sensing that foreign nationals who marry U.S. citizens or residents can become vulnerable to the U.S. spouse’s physical [...]
By Richard Hanus|2012-10-01T15:49:38-05:00October 1st, 2012|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), DHS / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings|Tags: administrative closure, long term same sex relationship, prosecutorial discretion, same sex|
Published: October 1, 2012 In the past week, Janet Napolitano, our top Department of Homeland Security official, announced that a removable foreign national’s “long term same sex” relationship in the U.S., like any other family relationship in the U.S., will [...]
By Richard Hanus|2012-08-27T17:39:17-05:00August 27th, 2012|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), General, Green Cards, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation|Tags: Board of Immigration Appeals, civic duty, estoppel, foreign national, government official, Illinois Secretary of State, inadmissable, Keathely, licensed driver, removal proceedings, U.S. congressional election, unlawful conduct, voter registrant|
Published: August 27, 2012 No doubt by now you have heard the one about the foreign national who walks into the local Secretary of State’s office to get a driver’s license, and walks out a licensed driver, an organ donor [...]
By Richard Hanus|2012-08-06T08:24:31-05:00August 6th, 2012|Categories: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment Authorization / Work Cards in the U.S., Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|Tags: DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Obama, undocumented young adults|
Published: August 6, 2012 In the past week, the Obama Administration announced it will implement its “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” or “DACA” program on August 15, 2012. That’s the program that will allow certain undocumented young adults who arrived [...]
By Richard Hanus|2012-07-03T10:24:36-05:00July 3rd, 2012|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), DHS / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Employment Authorization / Work Cards in the U.S., Immigration and Criminal Law / Detainees, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|Tags: DREAM Act, initiative, reasonable suspicion, show me your papers, sole jurisdiction|
Published: July 3, 2012 To address the various issues presented by the hundreds of thousands of undocumented individuals living in their state, including the security of their state’s border with Mexico and the drain on state coffers, the State of [...]
By Richard Hanus|2012-06-01T09:33:04-05:00June 1st, 2012|Categories: Conditional Permanent Residence Based on Marriage, DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Family-Based Immigration Law, General, Green Cards, Immigrant Visas for Spouse / Fiancee / Child Visas, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|Tags: gay marriage, gay marriage debate, gay population, momentum, Obama, proscecutorial discretion, same sex relationships|
Published: June 1, 2012 The momentum is unmistakable. State by state, our country is taking a serious look at the issue of gay marriage, with the volume of the local and national discussion only getting higher. Whether you believe same [...]
By Richard Hanus|2012-02-21T13:54:16-06:00February 21st, 2012|Categories: Citizenship / Naturalization and the N-400 Application, DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), General, Green Cards, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation|Tags: basis to deport, guidance of government, Moter-Voter, naturalization, prosecutorial discretion, voter registration|
Published: February 21, 2012 For the past 5 years, I have seen more than a few variations on the theme of the “accidental” voter or voter registrant. In all but the exceptional case, the non-U.S. citizen was lured into registering [...]
By Richard Hanus|2012-01-04T09:44:28-06:00January 4th, 2012|Categories: Amnesty for Immigrants in the U.S., Customs and Border Patrol / Travel to and from the U.S., DHS / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Employment-Based Immigration Law, Green Cards, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., Non-Immigrant Visas for Temporary Workers / H-1B, Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|Tags: amnesty, DREAM Act, reform, Undocumented|
Published: January 4, 2012 President Obama has always made it known that he favors the enactment of some form of comprehensive immigration reform to allow for a “path to citizenship” for at least some of the approximately 12 million living [...]
By Richard Hanus|2011-11-09T15:18:57-06:00November 9th, 2011|Categories: Asylum in the United States, Employment-Based Immigration Law, Family-Based Immigration Law, Immigrant Visas for Spouse / Fiancee / Child Visas, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|Tags: Consultation, Entered Without Inspection, Immigration Nationality Act, Relief in Removal Proceedings, Scam, Undocumented, Visa Overstay|
Published: November 9, 2011 This column is as much a warning to prospective victims as it is a source of basic immigration law information – especially for the 12- 15 million individuals living in the U.S. without immigration status. Why [...]
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