Opinion

Take Action Against New Legal Immigration Regulations – Submit Comments

Another week, another barrage of assaults on our immigration system. You don’t have to be an immigrant, an immigration attorney or a friend/loved one of an immigrant to be upset by these proposed changes. Included (and detailed below) are: Increased and expanded biometrics collection – “DHS now proposes to expand biometric collection to include anyone

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Recent Changes at USCIS: NTAS, RFES, and Public Charge

It’s been a busy summer at USCIS. They’ve issued several policy memos that have the potential to absolutely upend our legal immigration system. I’ve written a bit about the NTA and RFE memos, but we know more about them now than we did a few months ago. Then there’s the public charge memo that came out a few weeks ago

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A Personal Note…

I love my job, I truly do. I get to help families stay together, I get to help people come out of the shadows and gain their independence, I get to help people achieve their American Dream. While these highs are amazing, the lows just as extreme. I have clients recently diagnosed with cancer, DACA clients scared

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DACA: The Roller Coaster Ride and Waiting Continues

It’s been a roller coaster for all immigrants lately, but no one has had to endure more ups and downs than DACA recipients. When AG Sessions announced the end of the program last September, people filed renewals as quickly as possible to meet an early October deadline. We then waited for Congress to take up the cause, but

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Is All Hope Lost? No!

June was a crazy month in the world of immigration. From the Attorney General saying that domestic violence and gang violence generally aren’t grounds for asylum to the travel ban being allowed to continue to children being taken from their parents at the border things look worse and worse and people are understandably getting panicked, wondering what change could come next

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Administrative Closure – Why the Attorney General’s Decision is Horrible

Last week, the Attorney General released a decision saying that Immigration Judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals do not have the authority to administratively close a case. What is administrative closure and why is the end of it a big deal? Administrative closure was like putting a case in a coma. The respondent was still technically

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