
Never surrender
Although there have been previous attempts to curtail birth tourism via Cabinet-level directives, this appears to be the first of its kind as far as addressing…
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A Fil-Am lawyer admitted to the New York Bar and Maryland Bar with over 20 years’ experience handling a variety of US immigration cases, including employment-based and family-based sponsorships, student visas, consular processing cases, naturalizations, and domestic relations/uncontested divorce cases, among others.

Although there have been previous attempts to curtail birth tourism via Cabinet-level directives, this appears to be the first of its kind as far as addressing…
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The TSA has finally realized the political expediency of joining a brother agency in hunting down immigration violators in its own backyard, presumably by…
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Based on circulating news reports, it seems that nothing less than $100,000 is acceptable.
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Perhaps more devastatingly, another set of green card-shattering wheels currently on standby mode will begin its run come September, when a new ‘public charge’…
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More worrisome still is the concern that birth tourism may be used as a platform for inserting future sleeper agents into the US.
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Admittedly, unless and until it is revealed clearly how the CBP will apply the controversial ruling moving forward, there is no telling which direction the…
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In voiding and declaring unconstitutional the Trump administration’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship to children of US citizens and legal…
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The US Supreme Court, in a majority decision, ruled that US border officers are not required to possess clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder…
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It turned out that she was partly correct on the first count but completely off the mark on the second.
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In affirming the immigration court’s decision denying Mr. Blas’s adjustment of status application, the BIA clarified a number of conflicting rulings on the…
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