By Richard Hanus|2024-05-26T20:18:24-05:00May 26th, 2024|Categories: Employment Authorization / Work Cards in the U.S.|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. May 22, 2024 Immigration fraud is a big business and our society just received yet another reminder of how booming a business it is. Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice handed down an indictment of [...]
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|2024-04-10T08:40:26-05:00April 8th, 2024|Categories: DHS / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. April 6, 2024 Most Americans have heard about sanctuary cities, but few really understand what they truly are. I come to this conclusion based on the way this term, along with “open borders”, is thrown around [...]
By Richard Hanus|2024-03-19T06:38:33-05:00March 17th, 2024|Categories: Conditional Permanent Residence Based on Marriage, Green Cards|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. March 14, 2023 As access to our legal immigration system continues to be plagued by obstacles and exceptionally limited options, illegal avenues to life in the U.S. continue to make for profitable business for ambitious, unscrupulous [...]
By Richard Hanus|2024-02-18T14:19:48-06:00February 18th, 2024|Categories: Citizenship / Naturalization and the N-400 Application|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. February 17, 2024 Far too often, highly imperfect voter registration processes create moments of government assisted immigration suicide, whether it leads to a denied application for lawful permanent resident status ("Green Card") or U.S. citizenship or [...]
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|2024-01-13T11:04:18-06:00January 11th, 2024|Categories: DHS / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. January 11, 2024 Federal lawsuit alleges state overreach as Texas enacts its own immigration enforcement statute Per the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, it is well established that U.S. immigration law, from the enactment [...]
By Richard Hanus|2024-04-11T16:58:14-05:00December 31st, 2023|Categories: U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation|
Imagine moving to an entirely new country only to find yourself in legal trouble. In recent years, Chicago has served as a major hotspot for immigrants in the United States. Unfortunately, this has led to a crisis where the city [...]
By Richard Hanus|2023-12-22T11:12:54-06:00December 21st, 2023|Categories: Conditional Permanent Residence Based on Marriage|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. December 19, 2023 Marriage to a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident is one of the more popular avenues through which foreign nationals apply for U.S. lawful permanent resident status, also known as a “Green Card”. [...]
By Richard Hanus|2023-12-13T09:36:45-06:00November 27th, 2023|Categories: Asylum in the United States|
By: Richard Hanus, Esq. November 27, 2023 When it comes to LGBTQ foreign nationals who are present in the United States and seeking the protection of our asylum laws, I have noticed 2 important trends in recent years. First, it [...]
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