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In the last week, we have had two cases won at trial for people who make mistakes in their past, and were put in deportation proceedings because of them. One person admitted to committing fraud many years ago before becoming a Lawful Permanent Resident (“green card”) and the government fought to send him back to…

During the donald trump administration, the administrative agencies that run the immigration system ground to a halt, almost as if following their leader, they decided that slow-walking or virtually stopping immigration benefit processing was their new modus operandi. Today we still see horrifically long wait times for visa interviews to be scheduled abroad, for visas…

Crazy week last: Wednesday we won Cancellation of Removal in Immigration Court, the second such win this month! Now this man can stay in the country with his wife and 3 US citizen children. He has been here since 1989, but because he went home to visit his ill grandparents in 1999, he has no…

The Supreme Court today issued a decision finding that the Trump administration did not follow the law in ending DACA. It has remanded the issue back to the Department of Homeland Security, which allows them to try again to follow the Administrative Procedures Act if they wish to end the existing program. DHS should now…

What part of illegal don’t you understand? Guy comes to see me in February 2010 to see about his immigration status – today he became a Permanent Resident through a 10-minute hearing before the Immigration Court. In 5 years he will be eligible to become a US citizen. His story actually begins in 1996 when he and…

As the partial government shutdown enters its third week, we have been faced with some new challenges. The Immigration Court is not hearing any non-detained cases, though the detained cases continue as scheduled. This means that the Immigration Judges are furloughed, except that they can come in to work on and hear detained cases. Any…

Notes on Birthright Citizenship: In 1790, when the last state ratified the US constitution, the document did not explain whether someone was a citizen if born within the geographic US. What resulted was a limbo status for slaves, free blacks, Native Americans, and children of immigrants who were born here. Various states created their own…

For a variety of reasons, we are closing the office today, October 5, 2018, at Noon, and will reopen this Monday, October 8, 2018, at our regular 8:00am start time. If you need to drop off anything, we ask that you please do so prior to Noon today or wait until Monday morning at 8am.…

On June 11, 2018, the current Attorney General (AG) issued a decision, Matter of A-B-. In it, the AG overturned a prior decision, Matter of A-R-C-G-. which found that married women who can not leave the relationship is a Particular Social Group for asylum. That decision cleared the way for many grants of asylum for…