Since the election of Donald Trump, many clients have expressed concerns regarding their immigration status. I have been creating a series of videos addressing immigration in the Trump era. This particular issue is especially important because President Trump has prioritized the deportation of so-called criminal aliens. This group includes individuals who hold green cards as […]
One of the more challenging issues I have been dealing with recently is predicting how long it will take for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to process immigration forms. Since the significant USCIS fee increase on April 1, 2024, I expected a notable improvement in processing times. While the USCIS website does not
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Receiving a Notice of Intent to Deny your visa application can be discouraging but it may not be the end of your journey to immigrate to the United States legally. In some cases, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) may have sent a notice to deny based on an outdated or out of
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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I recently wrote a blog about cases in which people who have petitioned for their husband, wife or fiancé have been turned down on “fraud or material misrepresentation grounds”. A link to the following is here: Link While I usually charge $1,500.00 to do a petition for a husband, wife or fiancé, I have been
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