Immigration Lawyer
An immigration lawyer is someone who defends a foreign national who has been placed into removal or deportation proceedings in a United States immigration court. An immigration lawyer also aids foreign nationals in securing immigration benefits in the United States. An immigration lawyer 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. A United States immigration lawyer can practice federal immigration law throughout the United States and often represents clients from around the world.
News: Immigration Lawyer
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...
Jun 23rd, 2009
SB81, the new immigration law recently passed in Utah is scheduled to take effect later this summer. The law, which is based on the Oklahoma immigration law, has many critics. Immigration attorneys with AILA, an immigration lawyer group, will file a lawsuit, claiming at least four of the provision of the law are unconstitutional.
For example, the law requires proof of US citizenship in order to get a...
