• Immigration Law

    So Close and Yet So Far: How the Three- and Ten-Year Bars Keep Families Apart

    by  • January 25, 2012 • Consular Processing, I-601 Waivers, Immigration Law, Immigration Trends, Legislative Reform, Processing of Applications and Petitions • 0 Comments

    From Immigration Policy Center Most Americans take it for granted that marriage to a U.S. citizen and other family relationships entitle an immigrant to a green card, but there are barriers that often prevent or delay these family members from becoming lawful permanent residents, even if they are already in the United States.  Among these [...]

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    USCIS Seeks to Unify Families Facing Separation through Revised Waiver Process

    by  • January 25, 2012 • Consular Processing, I-601 Waivers, Immigration Law, Immigration Trends, Legislative Reform • 0 Comments

    From Immigration Impact Today, the administration took another important step toward fixing one of the most notorious problems with our broken immigration system—the 3 and 10 year bars. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it was filing a notice of intent to change a rule which would streamline the application process for many relatives of U.S. citizens [...]

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    Proposed Rule Change Will Unify Families Subject to 3 and 10 Year Bars

    by  • January 25, 2012 • Consular Processing, I-601 Waivers, Immigration Law, Immigration Trends, Legislative Reform • 0 Comments

    From American Immigration Council   January 6, 2012  Washington D.C. - Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a proposal to streamline the application process for the spouses and children of U.S. citizens currently eligible for legal permanent resident status, minimizing the amount of time that applicants would have to be separated from their families.  Under current [...]

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    DHS Announces Planned Changes to I-601 waiver for Unlawful Presence Waivers

    by  • January 6, 2012 • Consular Processing, I-601 Waivers, Immigration Law, Immigration Trends, Legislative Reform • 0 Comments

    The January 6, 2012, DHS Announcement about Planned Changes to Processing for Unlawful Presence Waivers Frequently Asked Questions What was announced on January 6? On January 6 DHS announced, in a notice to be published in the Federal Register on January 9 that it will be issuing new regulations for how unlawful presence waivers will [...]

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    In GOP debate over national security, Gingrich defends long-term illegal residents

    by  • November 23, 2011 • Immigration Law • 0 Comments

    American policy toward Iran and the difficulty of America maintaining a robust foreign policy as its national debt is growing were issues that dominated the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night in Washington. But in the debate’s final half hour, illegal immigration suddenly became the focus as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich made an extended and [...]

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    Immigrant workers, farmers fearful in wake of Alabama immigration law

    by  • November 15, 2011 • Immigration Law, Immigration Trends, State and Local Immigration Rules • 0 Comments

    Immigrant workers, farmers fearful in wake of Alabama immigration law     Alabama passed the severest immigration law in the US.  Basically, Americans don’t want to do the jobs that people without papers or status in the US are willing to do so a lot of farm work will not have enough labor to be [...]

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    Recent developments in Defense of Marriage Act

    by  • October 23, 2011 • Immigration Law, Immigration Trends, Legislative Reform

    In Febuary 2011, President Obama declared that the Department of Justice would no longer be defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in certain Courts of Appeals. This radical stance change has had a profound effect on undocumented aliens and foreign nationals in the LGBT community. However, due to certain legal realities, the DoJ has [...]

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    Texans for Immigration Reform Monthly Meeting

    by  • October 21, 2011 • Immigration Law • 0 Comments

    2nd Saturday (10m-12:30pm) or Thursday (7-9pm) each month at Tracy Gee Community Center, Houston, TX. Ongoing events from the group, American Border Patrol as seen in “Border Invasion Pics.” There are several home videos taken on the US/Mexico border. According to the website, “All activity shown… is a result of citizen volunteer effort. Detection is [...]

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