Effective September 24, 2015, you may pay for your N-400, Application for Naturalization, using a credit card. The N400 is the only form that can be paid for by credit card using the G1450, Authorization for Credit Card Transaction. For further information please visit AILA. Read More
Suspended Final Decision on Employment-Based I-485s
USCIS announced that final adjudication of employment-based I-485s is suspended for the remainder of FY2015 due to the statutory cap being reached for the employment-based preference categories. USCIS will accept current I-485s and resume final adjudication when visa numbers are available. For more information please visit AILA. Read More
Overworked Immigration Courts: New All-Time High Hearing Wait Times
According to the very latest information (end of August 2015) obtained from the U.S. Department of Justice, there is a backlog of 456,644 cases pending before the judges in the nation's Immigration Courts. This means the court backlog has increased by more than 100,000 cases from the 344,230 that were pending at the beginning of FY 2014. The average wait time for an individual in the Immigration Court's pending Read More
AILA National Conference in Washington, D.C.
I will be co-presenting at the American Immigration Lawyers Association's (AILA) National Conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation will be on marijuana and immigration law, with a specific focus on how state legalization of various marijuana related activities may affect non-US citizens. Here is more information about the presenters and AILA conference: AILA 2015 Washington, DC Conference Read More
US Supreme Court Fails to Help Bi-National Couple
BREAKING: High Court Says Visa Denials Not Open To Judicial Review Share us on: By Allissa Wickham https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/651007?nl_pk=2eb45903-66c1-4b69-9c1d-ce9dd6fe6548&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration Law360, New York (June 15, 2015, 10:25 AM ET) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the long-standing concept of consular Read More
For 40 years, married couple fought homophobia in US Immigration
Tonight PBS presents a documentary about the first same-sex couple to challenge homophobic discrimination in US immigration laws. Richard and Tony started fighting to stay together in 1975 and fought on for 40 years until DOMA was overruled in 2013. Check it out: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/limited-partnership/. Read More
USCIS Now Publishes Some International Processing Times
USCIS just announced that it now publishes processing times for I-130, I-131, and I-730 petitions processing at certain overseas offices. This is a great start to helping immigrants understand and manage expectations about what to expect when applying for immigration benefits at US embassies, consulates, and regional international offices. Immigrants, their families, and their attorneys will hope that USCIS publishes Read More
Post-DOMA Immigration Law
Since the 2013 fall of DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), the US federal government recognizes same sex marriages for the purpose of federal laws and benefits, including immigration law. I have years of experience consulting same sex couples. Here are some quick highlights of certain issues that you should be aware of. Post-DOMA Immigration Law Read More
USCIS incorrectly sends approved I-130s to National Records Center
When your I-130 is approved, it should be sent to the National Visa Center if you will be consular processing your immigrant visa. Recently, applicants have reported that approved I-130 cases have been sent to the National Records Center instead of the National Visa Center. Clearly, this poses a problem for any consular processing application. For folks applying for I-601A provisional waivers of inadmissibility, this Read More
Don’t say you are US citizen and don’t vote unless you are!
There are extremely harsh and unforgiving penalties against immigrants who claim (in almost any way) to be a US citizen or who vote in (almost any) local, state or federal election in the US. The Board of Immigration Appeals recently upheld a removal (deportation) order against an immigrant (not a US ciitzen) who did not realize that it was an unlawful voting. For more information see Matter of Fitzpatrick, 26 Read More
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