
A day without a Filipino in America
Desperate housewives and diplomats in the nation’s capital will have to cook their own meals, change their dirty linens, do their stinky laundry, and babysit…
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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.

Desperate housewives and diplomats in the nation’s capital will have to cook their own meals, change their dirty linens, do their stinky laundry, and babysit…
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As widely reported, a new travel ban was issued by the White House last week which took effect on Monday.
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Just recently, the US State Department issued an urgent directive freezing all student visa interviews and approvals at American consulates abroad.
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Unfortunately, declaring them as muertos/muertas for social security purposes has a knock-out impact, so to speak, on their everyday immigration struggles in…
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At this time, it remains to be seen what the overall reception to the US government’s self-deportation offer would be among the undocumented immigrant…
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The gist of the new rule is that any single missing document required for an immigrant visa interview will cause the automatic cancellation of the interview
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After the interview, everything is compiled into a sealed envelope, which becomes the official immigrant visa packet
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She does that, and that’s when she finds out the hard truth: Her immigrant visa packet is missing, and is not in the possession of the USCIS Texas facility…
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Ominously, as the 1970s folk/rock icon Neil Young laments in one of his songs, ‘Once you’re gone, you can never come back, when you’re out of the blue, and…
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Nationals of these countries, presumably with the exception of green card holders and those with valid visas, are barred indefinitely from entering the US
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