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Lawful Permanent Residence (LPR), often referred to as a green card, is a visa status that allows someone in the United States to remain permanently, without the need to continue or alter their visa status regularly. However, such status can be revoked in several ways, including as a result of criminal activity. Many permanent residents…

Geoffrey has a unique background in both law and science, making him preeminently qualified to represent University Professors, Scientists, and Researchers seeking either non-immigrant or immigrant visas.   Most attorneys either rely solely on the scientists themselves to provide them with the necessary expertise, or else spend substantial hours attempting to decipher the nature of…

Sometimes people who were not born in the United States are citizens anyway, based on the state of the law at the time of their birth. In fact, the history of citizenship laws in the United States is fairly complicated. Anyone born before 1941, to one parent who is a United States citizen, is also…

Today I received a lengthy and well-reasoned decision from the Kansas City Immigration Court, approving my pro bono client, an 18-year-old Honduran child. This is the first of the two pro bono cases we wrote about back in September. The Judge accepted our argument that the abuse the child suffered in Honduras did, in fact,…

Week after week I sit in my office and listen to young men and women tell me about the problems they face, where the alien spouse or boyfriend was born abroad and brought to the United States as a young child. They then grew up here, went to High School, settled down, had some kids,…

Beginning in August 2010, all non-detained removal cases from St. Louis will be moved to the Kanas City Immigration Court. Previously, the St. Louis cases were handled by televideo from the Immigration Court in Oakdale, Louisiana. The Department of Homeland Security office which housed the televideo courtroom in St. Louis will no longer house non-detained…

The United States Supreme Court has not always made the best decisions regarding the rights of Immigrants in either immigration or criminal courts. However, the recent decision in Padilla v. Kentucky does go a long way to insure the rights of aliens in criminal proceedings.  What the Court holds is that criminal attorneys are required to…

This is difficult, yet important advice that I give to aliens and their criminal attorneys all the time when consider the best outcome for them in terms of the immigration consequences. Sometimes it really is better to spend a little time in jail in order to get the prosecutor to agree to a more lenient…

The United States was founded by immigrants coming for work, for freedom of religion, and to escape other forms of persecution. The travails of immigrants, migrant workers, organized labor, and the working class have often been intricately linked. Recent developments have highlighted abuses against immigrants in the form of labor rights violations, illicit human trafficking,…

Neelam Ihsanullah, a guest contributor to our blog, is an immigration attorney licensed in Pennsylvania and California. You can contact her directly at: neelam.ihsanullah@gmail.com   There is some good news for the nation’s refugee population: in connection with ongoing litigation, the government is carefully reviewing its policy permitting the detention of refugees who fail to apply…