
Delayed tax payments now a bane to U.S. citizenship
Unfortunately, against this evolving backdrop comes the disturbing news that naturalization cases are now being denied due to the applicants’ failure to pay…
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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.

Unfortunately, against this evolving backdrop comes the disturbing news that naturalization cases are now being denied due to the applicants’ failure to pay…
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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…
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Finally, even if more lenient immigration laws are passed by a Democratic legislature, the White House’s veto power can stymie any such effort for purely…
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Now, proactive evidence of the applicant’s behavior as an outstanding member of the community is a must.
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America’s birth tourism, as abhorrent a concept as it may be, has long been a staple of the US immigration system.
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The processing and approval of immigrant petitions at USCIS offices nationwide, at least in employment-based cases, are moving along smoothly. In fact,…
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This is about the torrent of bad news impacting US immigration policies at present, with millions of people around the world, including Filipinos and…
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Considering that the scheme was ongoing since at least 2016, it begs the question: How did the racket survive the notoriously strict enforcement environment…
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Avalanche of bad news impacting green card applicants in the U.S.
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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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