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Every January I intend to write up a summary of the previous year’s successes, but so far work has gotten in the way of that each and every year. This year, however, I finally got it done. In 2017, Willmoth Immigration Law obtained H-1b visas and extensions for five separate small businesses in the area,…

We just got an approved I-140 for an Outstanding Researcher approved without any Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID), which are fairly standard tools of USCIS in most researcher cases. Particularly when you file paying for Premium Processing, USCIS issues RFEs in most cases (at least according to anecdotal evidence),…

By deciding to prioritize every single case, and refuing to grant prosecutorial discretion to anyone  anymore, including those with no criminal history, family ties, and lengthy stays in the US, the Department of Homeland Security has essentially decided to not prioritize any cases resulting in huge backlogs. The Immigration Court backlog has grown to almost…

Political Asylum generally requires someone to show that they suffered past persecution on one of the enumerated grounds (race, religion, national origin, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group), or that they will be harmed on account of one of those grounds in the future. Sometimes, they can show they suffered past persecution,…

The Administration believes it can stem the tide of refugees coming from Central America by deporting those who have arrived in the last couple of years – but that only makes sense if those seeking refuge know about the deportations, and that such fear of deportation is more powerful than the fear causing them to…

While we generally post about cases to our Facebook and Twitter accounts, I felt a new blog post was in order as we have updated our website, and make a number of changes that will hopfully make getting information about the firm easier, as well as making it easier to find and contact us online.  Since the…

We have been posting our updates/victories on our Facebook and Twitter sites. Please check them out to stay informed. While we are updating here though, we have recently received another Cancellation of Removal approval which is rarer now as the number of available approvals had been reached for most of the year, and apparently just…

We recently received one of the first approvals for a same-sex marriage case in the Kansas City area. The couple has been together for years, but it has only been since the Supreme Court’s decision in US v. Windsor that there has been the possibility for them to remain together permanently in the United States.  The…

About a year ago, we were visited by a woman distraught that her husband had been arrested and detained by Immigration. He had two little girls who were born in the US, one who was still a baby, as well as two step-children. He also had no criminal history at all. After looking into his…

The biggest news out of the Supreme Court this term has to be the death of DOMA. However, in the immigration context there were two other very important decisions that were handed down.    In Moncrieffe v. Holder, the Court decided that the courts must look to the state statute of conviction and not the…