I don’t know “Suman” very well, as I have mostly worked with her husband, “Karan.” Suman was born in India, but spent a part of her adult life living in…
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On December 1, 2014, a new program was announced by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) in response to the “surge” of immigrant minors at the border during the summer…
You have been diligently checking your USCIS case status online for the past few months. For a while now, the case status has reflected that USCIS is “ready to schedule your…
John Oliver recently did a feature about the Kafka-esque difficulties faced by translators who have served the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the risk of their lives, when trying to obtain…
Okay, “Charlie” is a criminal. I get it. But that does not make his teenage and young adult children criminals. Charlie, his three children and their mother came to the…
President Obama has once again turned his back on the huge voting bloc that helped him into office, blaming “political pressure” for his failure to act. American Immigration Lawyers Association…
This blog entry is not about one particular client, but instead is a composite of several clients, that I will call Eber. Eber is a hard-working young man from El…
All of my "Client" blog entries so far have endings. This one is still playing itself out but I am writing it now because it is an important story to...
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“Bao’s” son “Xing” is a brilliant student. As a high school senior, he played violin in the college orchestra. He was captain of his high school’s math team, which won…
A client I will call Edgardo is a United States citizen with roots in Ecuador. On a trip home after his divorce, he met and fell in love with a…
While you no longer have to worry about replacing a lost or damaged paper I-94, you still have to make sure CBP is doing its job. And you need…
For this blog entry, I will let my readers play the role of the Immigration Service adjudicating officer. “Raymond” is a geologist who is also an IT expert. At the…
