Today the President tweeted that he is suspending immigration to the United States. Putting aside the fact that it is simply a tweet, and thus meaningless by itself, immigration has been effectively suspended for the past month anyway. Neither the consulates or USCIS are conducting interviews, so we are pretty much at a dead stop. […]
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I was pleased to be ask by the Khmer Post USA to write a series of articles on deportation issues. Since the focus of these articles is on the Cambodian Community, they relate to deportation after a Final Order of Removal (“Deportation Order”) has entered. The current controversy involves the physical removal to Cambodia of
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I have been warning my clients for the past several months that there is a rumor circulating that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is going to be raising its fees soon. It is no longer a rumor. USCIS has announced its new fee schedule effective December 23, 2016 The immigration service is
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The September 2015 Visa Bulletin has been released. The nice thing is that F2A immigrant visas, which is to say green cards for husbands, wives, spouses and unmarried children under 21 of Lawful Permanent Residents, is “only” backed up a year and a half. Such people who will be getting their visas in September had immigration petitions
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A lawyer I know who also does a lot of immigration work came to visit me today. He wanted to ask me if I knew of a forms preparer whose fraud and scams had gotten a client of his in trouble. I stopped him in the middle of his story, because that same preparer had
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So far the President’s plan is very general, but I will share what is available. The big thing is that people who have been in the US for five (5) years or more and have US citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident children may quality for “deferred action”. Deferred Action is a promise not to deport
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Now that President Obama has issued his executive order, people want to know when it will take effect. The regulations and applications necessary to implement the order have not been written yet. USCIS has posted this notice explaining its plans for implementing the order. The article gives some insight into when USCIS expects to issue
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Presidente Obama ha anunciado que hablará hoy por la noche sobre la inmigración. Se espera que anunciará que firmará una orden ejecutiva. Ha habido especulación considerable en las noticias sobre lo que puede ser en ese orden. Independientemente de la fuente de especulación, por el momento es sólo especulación. He estado recibiendo llamadas telefónicas hoy
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