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26 01, 2011

Options to Adjust Status in the U.S. for the Undocumented/Overstay – What’s Left?

By |2011-01-26T10:29:06-06:00January 26th, 2011|Categories: Amnesty for Immigrants in the U.S., DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Employment Authorization / Work Cards in the U.S., Family-Based Immigration Law, Green Cards, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|

Published:  January 26, 2011 With the DREAM Act out of the picture for now, the 15 million undocumented/out of status immigrants living in the U.S. are left wondering, what options for living legally in the U.S. are left? Of course [...]

13 01, 2011

New CIS Guidance on Immigration Benefits for Surviving Relatives of Deceased Petitioners

By |2011-01-13T08:58:11-06:00January 13th, 2011|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Family-Based Immigration Law, Green Cards, Immigrant Visas for Spouse / Fiancee / Child Visas, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation|

Published: January 13, 2011 On October 28, 2009, President Obama signed into law important immigration provisions to address the unjust consequences of slow Citizenship and Immigration Services processing, particularly relating to widows and widowers of U.S. citizens. The law also [...]

20 12, 2010

UPDATE ON “DREAM ACT”: The DREAM is Over…For Now

By |2010-12-20T09:14:52-06:00December 20th, 2010|Categories: Amnesty for Immigrants in the U.S., Citizenship / Naturalization and the N-400 Application, DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Green Cards, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|

Published: December 20, 2010 As most people have come to learn by now, the DREAM Act – the legislative initiative to allow for the legalization of 1 million or so undocumented individuals who came to the U.S. as children – [...]

1 12, 2010

New Version of DREAM ACT Up For Congressional Consideration

By |2010-12-01T13:38:47-06:00December 1st, 2010|Categories: Amnesty for Immigrants in the U.S., Citizenship / Naturalization and the N-400 Application, Green Cards, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|

Published: December 1, 2010 If past experience is any guide to the future, the new and “improved” DREAM Act proposal now up for congressional consideration has little or no chance at passage. As the post 9/11 era has taught us, [...]

17 11, 2010

Immigration Filing Fees to Increase on November 23, 2010

By |2010-11-17T14:00:45-06:00November 17th, 2010|Categories: Citizenship / Naturalization and the N-400 Application, DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Employment Authorization / Work Cards in the U.S., Employment-Based Immigration Law, Family-Based Immigration Law, Green Cards, Immigrant Visas for Spouse / Fiancee / Child Visas, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation|

Published:November 17, 2010 Effective November 23, 2010, filing fees for most immigration applications and petitions are set to increase, on average, some 10-15%. On the other hand, filing fees for 6 categories of applications are actually set to be reduced, [...]

27 10, 2010

Updated Version of Certificate of Naturalization

By |2010-10-27T11:22:50-05:00October 27th, 2010|Categories: Citizenship / Naturalization and the N-400 Application, DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)|

Published: October 27, 2010 As of this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Citizenship and Immigration Services began issuing a new version of the Certificate of Naturalization for newly naturalized immigrants. The new document resembles the previous version, except that [...]

20 10, 2010

Careful, Homeland Security May Want to “Friend” You

By |2010-10-20T11:16:17-05:00October 20th, 2010|Categories: Conditional Permanent Residence Based on Marriage, DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Family-Based Immigration Law, Green Cards, Immigrant Visas for Spouse / Fiancee / Child Visas, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S.|

Careful, Homeland Security May Want to “Friend” You Published: October 20, 2010 In recent years, government officials have increasingly been turning to high technology to gather information to assess marital relationships that are the basis of immigration filings, such as [...]

14 10, 2010

Litigation and the Undocumented

By |2010-10-14T10:45:09-05:00October 14th, 2010|Categories: DHS / Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), DHS / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Immigration and Criminal Law / Detainees, Removal / Deportation Proceedings and Court Hearings, Undocumented Immigrants and Workers in the U.S.|

Litigation and the Undocumented Published: October 14, 2010 An important question that gets asked from time to time: Can an individual residing in the U.S. without legal immigration status access a federal or state civil court to recover damages for [...]

22 09, 2010

The Strange World of Politics and the Killing of the “Dream Act”

By |2010-09-22T10:58:13-05:00September 22nd, 2010|Categories: Amnesty for Immigrants in the U.S., Green Cards, Lawful Permanent Residence in the U.S., U.S. Immigration Law and Legislation|

The Strange World of Politics and the Killing of the “Dream Act” Published: September 22, 2010 For about the past 10 years a legislative proposal known as the DREAM Act – standing for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors [...]

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