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News: Los Angeles Immigration (LA)
Jun 25th, 2009
Immigrants and international visitors entering the United States via Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) may wonder what process they will go through after their plane lands. I’m an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles and recently had the opportunity to tour the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility at the Tom Bradley International Terminal.
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Jun 24th, 2009
An immigrant couple from Los Angeles was arrested by ICE agents in Oregon last week for transporting newly-arrived undocumented workers through California to the northwest. The couple, who drove a mini-van, was arrested along with the group of illegal immigrants they were transporting. While the couple had run a thriving transport business for arriving aliens, the downturn in the econonmy has caused them to let go...
Jun 9th, 2009
DHS recently announced that a green card applicant who is the husband or wife of a deceased US Citizen may be eligible to receive temporary protection from deportation if he or she is widowed before the two year anniversary of the marriage. The announcement comes in response to an Los Angeles immigration judge’s ruling that ordered USCIS to review cases where immigrants whose spouse died before the green...
May 24th, 2009
United States immigration officials have begun the process of building a 2,200 bed immigration detention center within 120 miles of Los Angeles. Immigration and Customs enforcement can currently house 32,000 immigration detainees across the country, with 1,400 of them staying in a Los Angeles county facility. US Immigration closed the San Pedro detention facility in 2007.
May 20th, 2009
The International Operations Division of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has opened an office in Anaheim, CA to help process I-601 waivers for grounds of inadmissibility filed in Ciudad de Juarez, Mexico (CDJ). Ciudad de Juarez (CDJ) started a 601 waiver adjudication program in 2007 whereby certain waivers are approved either the same day or within a few days after filing form I-601. Those that can...
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