Freezing child’s age for green card purposes (3)
The monthly cut-off date, in immigration parlance, is synonymous with the so-called ‘priority date,’ which is a visa applicant’s place in the line or priority…
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
Daily Tribune
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.
The monthly cut-off date, in immigration parlance, is synonymous with the so-called ‘priority date,’ which is a visa applicant’s place in the line or priority…
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
Under the old rule, Childa would have ‘aged-out’ by then because she failed to immigrate to the US before her 21st birthday (not possible because a visa was…
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
Since it is commonly leveraged as a platform for pushing forward sham agendas and spurious objectives, perhaps pseudo-intelligence or PI is the better term?
Todith Garcia · · 2 min read
Whether or not the program — an unconventional exercise of executive fiat by a Democratic president facing tough reelection — will survive political and legal…
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
The Child Status Protection Act’s most salient feature, as it relates to ‘immediate relatives’ of US citizens, is the ‘freezing’ of a child’s age at the time…
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
Assuming once again that the lawyer is distracted by her fiancé’s sudden appearance, her hurried response is: ‘Yup, that’s correct. Gotta go now’
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
Since dual intent questions are quite common in immigration practice, the lady’s lawyer maintains that she did not act improperly in giving correct, albeit…
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
Even more disturbing are reports of Chinese citizens getting a foothold on the membership program of the Philippine Coast Guard’s auxiliary branch
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
From the viewpoint of the US government, a US permanent resident is expected to make America his primary home, not a temporary place of abode
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read
While both Uncle Sam and the Philippines allow dual citizenship, the Philippines has a stricter policy vis-à-vis its citizens’ acquisition of foreign…
Todith Garcia · · 3 min read