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You can file a Join Motion to Reopen with the EOIR

U Visas: You can file a Join Motion to Reopen with the EOIR

Motion to reopen 

Join in a motion to reopen

Justifying a motion to reopen 

Motion to reopen is one of the best ways…

VAWA

VAWA:
For C/R in court – the hardship to show is a)much less than C/R regular applications AND you can show hardship to relatives and victim.

VAWA self-petition 

VAWA facts

Battered or abused parent

VAWA – victims 

A New win for Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner

A New win for Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner: Client was in deportation because no proof of I-94 entry to U.S. We provided declarations, etc. and applied for Cancellation of Removal and now he has his Green Card.

Form I-94

Arrival/departure record 

Removal proceedings 

A deportation attorney is very important for you 

What visa should I get?

I would like to come to the US to do an unpaid volunteer internship for 3 months. What visa should I get? – Avvo.com http://ping.fm/2UwmU

Visa reciprocity 

Diversity visas 

Requirements for visa 

Visas 

USCIS challenging the employer-employee/third-party placement memo

 

    The government filed a Memorandum in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Broadgate, Inc.,et al v. USCIS, a case challenging the January 8, 2010, employer-employee/third-party placement memo.

USCIS Notice on Extension for Haitians Under the TPS Program

This notice extends the registration period for applicants for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals through January 18, 2011.

TPS and announces 

Get TPS 

TPS documentation

The Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner 

New Case involving modified categorical approach

New Case involving modified categorical approach: Under modified categorical approach, bank employee’s guilty plea to stealing, embezzling, and misapplying $65,000 of bank funds in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 656 qualified as an aggravated felony under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1101(a)(43)(M)(i) because the knowing misapplication of funds necessarily involved fraud.
Carlos-Blaza v. Holder.

Aggravated felony analysis 

California felony conviction 

Alien convicted of an aggravated felony 

Aggravated felony theft offense 

Violation of a law relating to a controlled substance

The offense of delivery of a simulated controlled substance in violation of Texas law is not an aggravated felony, as defined by section 101(a)(43)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B) (2006), but it is a violation of a law relating to a controlled substance under former section 241(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(2)(B)(i) (1994).

A new case

A new case : Where Chapter 7 debtor, prior to filing petition, assigned its accounts receivable to bank, but account-holder made payments directly to debtor instead of bank, and bankruptcy court later avoided bank’s security interest in a preference action by the trustee, bank was barred from proceeding in a separate action against the account-holder for amounts the account-holder paid to the debtor because the bank did not possess any claim separate and distinct from those which were adjudicated in the bankruptcy proceedings.

Find a good Bankruptcy attorney 

Bankruptcy case 

Bankruptcy court´s order

File bankruptcy 

Analysis on Crimes of Moral Turpitude

Crimes of Moral Turpitude should be analyzed under 24 I & N DEC 687 (2008). Step 1: – If it is clearly a CMT then the analysis is over; Step 2: Was there a temporary or permanent taking; Step 3: What extrinsic evidence exists (this can be shown); Step 4 – CMT is a non elemental fact. Look at Johnso vs. US (130 S.Ct. 1265 (2010)) or Matter of Milan – 25 De. 197 (BIA 2010).

Charged in violent crimes? 

Crimes of moral turpitude 

Particular types of crime 

Victims of crime