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Portrait of Todith Garcia

Todith Garcia

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.

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A bullet in the heart

A bullet in the heart

Adding insult to injury, the cut-off date for the Philippines’ unskilled workers category had made an unexpected jump backward from 1 August 2022 to 1 June…

The lesser of two evils

The lesser of two evils

America’s birth tourism, as abhorrent a concept as it may be, has long been a staple of the US immigration system.

Imbibing a half-full glass of positivity

Imbibing a half-full glass of positivity

The processing and approval of immigrant petitions at USCIS offices nationwide, at least in employment-based cases, are moving along smoothly. In fact,…

A lingering habagat of bad news

A lingering habagat of bad news

This is about the torrent of bad news impacting US immigration policies at present, with millions of people around the world, including Filipinos and…

Till DHS do us part

Till DHS do us part

Considering that the scheme was ongoing since at least 2016, it begs the question: How did the racket survive the notoriously strict enforcement environment…

Never surrender

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…