Filed under: Immigration Attorney | Tagged: moral turpitude, suspended license | Leave a comment »
Filed under: DACA | Tagged: DACA, daca abogado, daca attorney, daca immigration attorney, daca immigration lawyer, daca judge, daca lawyer, el abogado de inmigración daca, end to daca, ending daca, in state tuition, injunction against daca, work permit for daca | Leave a comment »
The Associated Press reports that a judge in Arizona ruled yesterday that DACA recipients are eligible for in-state college tuition at Maricopa County colleges. In his ruling, the judge wrote, “Federal law, not state law, determines who is lawfully present in the U.S,” and because the federal government considers recipients of deferred action lawfully present, they can receive lower in-state tuition.
Filed under: Immigration Attorney | Tagged: DACA, in state tuition | Leave a comment »
Filed under: eb5 visa | Tagged: chinese eb5, cutoff of eb-5, EB-5, eb-5 attorney, EB-5 Conference, EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, EB-5 Investment, EB-5 Investment Visa, EB-5 Visa, eb5, retreogression, USCIS memorandum on the adjudication of EB-5 Regional Center | Leave a comment »
Effective May, 1, 2015, only Chinese-born EB-5 applicants with priority dates before May 1, 2013,
Filed under: Immigration Attorney | Tagged: chinese eb5, cutoff of eb-5, EB-5, eb5, retreogression | Leave a comment »
BIA deference given to particulary serious crime
Filed under: BIA | Tagged: #bia, appeal to bia, BIA, bia board of immigration appeals, BIA Pro Bono Project, board of immigration appeals, Motion to Reopen with the BIA, Petitioner to pursue an argument never presented to the BIA, removability from voting, unlawful voting | Leave a comment »
In a precedent decision issued yesterday, the BIA held that a respondent who has voted in an election involving candidates for federal office in violation of 18 USC §611(a) is removableunder section 237(a)(6)(A) of the INA, regardless of whether the respondent knew that he or she was committing an unlawful act by voting. The BIA reasoned that because the respondent, an LPR who had disclosed during a naturalization interview that she had voted in an election in 2006 that included a local school board race, had intentionally voted in an election involving candidates for federal office, the general intent requirement of §611(a) was satisfied.
Filed under: Immigration Attorney | Tagged: BIA, board of immigration appeals, removability from voting, unlawful voting | Leave a comment »
Bia deference given to particulary serious crime
Filed under: BIA | Tagged: 212(h), 212(h) waiver, Adjustment of Status, BIA, board of immigration appeals, waiver, waiver of inadmissibility | Leave a comment »
In a precedent decision issued today, the BIA held that a respondent who adjusted status inside the U.S., and who did not enter as an LPR, is not barred from establishing eligibility for a waiver of inadmissibility under INA §212(h). In so doing, the BIA withdrew from its previous decisions on the topic, aligning its holding with that of nine circuit courts who have held that the plain language of §212(h) precludes immigrants from establishing eligibility for relief only if they lawfully entered the U.S. as permanent residents and thereafter committed a removable offense for which a waiver is required.
Filed under: Immigration Attorney | Tagged: 212(h), 212(h) waiver, Adjustment of Status, BIA, board of immigration appeals, waiver, waiver of inadmissibility | Leave a comment »
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that USCIS Director León Rodríguez called on Congress to make the immigration system more just at a convention of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network yesterday. “The immigration system that we are working off of … was mostly built back in the 1960s, meaning that it is an obsolete and archaic scheme that does not reflect our economy, does not reflect our demographics, and does not reflect—above all—our values,” Director Rodríguez said. “Real justice will come when we have reform … that gives us a path to citizenship [for undocumented immigrants].”
Filed under: Immigration Attorney | Tagged: Immigration, Immigration Reform | Leave a comment »
Immigration Lawyer
Brian D. Lerner Immigration Attorney & Deportation Lawyer Blog 