by | | Avoiding Deportation, Cancellation of Expulsion, Crimes, Deportation, Good Moral Character, Permanent Residence
Immigration Application Denied for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) has announced changes to the USCIS Policy Manual on Health-Related Reasons and Inadmissibility. With these changes, a DUI arrest within the last...
by | | Avoiding Deportation, Good Moral Character, Immigration Law
The Immigrant Tax Return Once again, the time has come to begin preparations for filing tax returns as required by U.S. law. Immigrants, both legal and undocumented, face a plethora of forms, questions, and answers that, in most cases, are new to them. They are also...
by | | Announcement of August 18 2011, Avoiding Deportation, Cancellation of Expulsion, Deportation, Immigration Law, Immigration Reform, Legal Residence, President Obama's New Immigration Policy, Prosecutorial Discretion, Sorry, Work permit
On August 18 of this year, the President announced a change in immigration policy with the purpose of administratively closing some of the 300,000 deportation cases currently pending in immigration courts across the country. This was a policy change (or policy) and...
by | | Application I-360, Avoiding Deportation, Cancellation of Expulsion, Domestic Violence, Legal Residence, Permanent Residence Card, Spouses, T-Visa, VAWA, Victim of Human Trafficking, Violence Against Women Act, Visa U
The United States Congress, in 1994, recognized that there are immigrants who are victims of abusers and perpetrators of domestic violence crimes. They also acknowledged that there are victims of human trafficking, and sexual assault. These abusers very often threaten...
by | | Application for Temporary Protection, Avoiding Deportation, Immigration Law, TPS, TPS Extension, TPS For Salvadorans, Work permit
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to citizens of El Salvador whose status expires on September 9, 2012, until March 9, 2012. Over the course of...
by | | American Citizenship, Avoiding Deportation, Crimes, Deportation, Forgery
The Consequences of Making False Claim to U.S. Citizenship In a recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the BIA stated that a foreigner who only claimed on a passport application that she was born in Texas is not only deportable but can never again...
