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]]> One of the ongoing problems with America’s immigration policy is that it is not a single, unified policy. It is a mixture of various immigrant, nonimmigrant, and refugee policies, all operating quite separately.
]]> The Obama administration wants to reunite Americans more quickly with their illegal immigrant spouses and children. Currently, many illegal immigrants must leave the country before they can ask the federal government to waive a three- to 10-year ban on legally coming back to the U.S. The length of the ban depends on how long they have lived in the U.S. without permission.
]]> U.S. immigration law does not contain any special visa for foreign "Seniors" hoping to spend an extended period of time with their American children and grandchildren.
]]> Just like 2010, Congress failed to enact any meaningful immigration legislation in 2011, leaving in place a badly flawed immigration system and allowing some disturbing trends in immigration now.
]]> The petitions of visa applicants who will be processed at a US Consulate are forwarded by CIS to the Department of State’s National Visa Center (NVC).
]]> The US State Department recently reported that surrogacy is a growing part of India's medical tourist industry. Over 350 clinics in India offer commercial surrogacy services.
]]> Who will benefit from HR 3012? Those likely to benefit are the high-skilled immigrants who have been waiting a long time to become eligible for a visa. This would mainly apply to people from India.
]]> A German manager with Mercedes-Benz was freed after being arrested for not having a driver’s license with him under Alabama’s new law targeting illegal immigrants.
]]> Visas for Immediate relatives of US citizen sponsors do not have a quota. These include a US citizen’s spouse, minor children and parents. All other family based petitions are in the “Preference Categories” and they do have a quota. At the beginning of each month, the Visa Office receives a report from each consular post, listing totals of qualified immigrant visa applicants in categories that have a quota.
]]> We need to remember that the CSPA was not created by the 5th circuit. The law was passed by Congress. After that, it has been the responsibility of each District Court in the US to interpret the CSPA law. This is the nature of most laws. They are interpreted differently by different courts.
]]> In the past, only widows and widowers of U.S. citizens could continue to apply for a Green Card after the death of their petitioning spouse. INA §204(l) expands eligibility for immigration survivor benefits to other categories of relatives, including derivative beneficiaries in family-based preferences.
]]> For most of the time since 2002, if a child was left behind in Vietnam because he did not qualify for the CSPA, the parents filed a new petition for the child after they arrived in the US.
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]]> According to the reports we received, Passport Control is not allowing Permanent Residents to board flights to the US if they have been in Vietnam for more than one year. This has happened to Permanent Residents who have no Re-entry Permits, and also to passengers who do have two year Re-entry Permits that are still valid.
]]> In October 2009, Congress changed the law about immigration benefits for widows and widowers of U.S. citizens. The previous law required a widow(er) to be married to the U.S. citizen spouse for two years before being eligible to seek survivor benefits in the event of the citizen spouse's death.
]]> Failure to properly make an address change can lead to denials and other unfortunate immigration consequences.
]]> Petitions that a US citizen files for his spouse, minor child or parent are always current. That means there is no waiting time for these petitions to be eligible for immigrant visa processing.
]]> The Obama Administration plans to review 300,000 pending deportation cases with the intention of allowing illegal aliens to remain in the US if they do not have criminal convictions.
]]> Before the CSPA, even if a child was an infant when his family was sponsored for green cards, if he turned 21 before his family could immigrate to the U.S., he and his parents faced the possibility of being separated for many years, sometimes forever. The CSPA was enacted in order to promote family unity.
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