immigration attorney
An immigration attorney is someone who aids foreign nationals in securing immigration benefits in the United States. An immigration attorney can help clients apply for a fiance visa, marriage visa or other type of green card, an immigration waiver, a non-immigrant visa and citizenship or naturalization. An immigration attorney can also defend a foreign national who has been placed into removal or deportation proceedings in a United States immigration court. A United States immigration attorney can practice federal immigration law throughout the United States and often represents clients from around the world.
News: immigration attorney
Jun 9th, 2011
I get many phone calls from US Citizens asking if their foreign national loved one (spouse, fiance, parent, child) can adjust status in the US. For many of these callers, the answer is yes. If a foreign national is here, in the United States, and has a green card immediately available to him or her through an immediate relative, adjustment of status can allow someone to apply for and obtain permanent residence...
Dec 6th, 2010
The United States Citizenship and Nationality Service (USCIS) recently made changes to the fees required when filing certain immigration forms. Although most fees did increase, fees for two key applications either stayed the same or decreased.
K1 Visa filing fee decreases
The filing fee for form I-129F, which is used to petition for a K1 visa for a foreign fiance, decreased from $455 to $340. The decrease is, most...
Apr 11th, 2010
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been ordered by a US federal court in Colorado to process the green card application of an Iraqi artist. Government prosecutors claim that Sami Alkarim, an Iraqi refugee, is under investigation for possible terrorist ties. Officials refused to grant his green card application because he worked as a messenger for a political party during his teen years. The government...
Aug 18th, 2009
A former Houston immigration lawyer was sentenced this week to time served for his role in a scheme to obtain fraudulent employment-based visas for Chinese immigrants. Apparently immigration from China is big business; the Chinese immigrants were willing to pay up to several hundred thousand dollars a piece for the visas. The immigration attorney spent 14 months in jail prior to his sentencing and has been...
