AS you may be aware, an alien seeking permanent residency status in the US must be “admissible” to the US.  Admissibility means the ability of an alien to receive a…

An alien seeking permanent residency status in the US must be “admissible” to the US. Admissibility means the ability of an alien to receive a visa to enter the US…

AN alien who seeks to be classified as a “child” or as a derivative beneficiary under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and who is under 21 years of age…

AS you may be aware, the USCIS, in coordination of the Department of State (DOS), announced last September 2015, announced revisions as to the procedures for determining visa availability for…

AS part of President Obama’s continuing executive actions on immigration, the White House issued last July 2015 a report called “Modernizing and Streamlining Our Legal Immigration System for the 21st…

LAST September 11, 2015, the incumbent mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Long Beach, and Oakland issued a joint letter addressed to California Senators and Representatives entitled “Opposition…

AS you may be aware, a foreign national who desires to enter the US must obtain either an immigrant or non-immigrant visa. An immigrant visa allows one to stay in…

The bankruptcy court issues a pamphlet containing explanation of bankruptcy basics like the reaffirmation agreements. All debtors are required to read the pamphlet and the trust during the 341 hearing…

AS you may be aware, the USCIS is seeking comments from the public regarding the proposed rule on the “Expansion of Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers of Inadmissibility” which was published…

ON July 14, 2015, the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) announced that it will begin testing the collection of biometric exit data of limited foreign national air travelers departing the…

AS early as April 7, 2015, the USCIS announced that the statutory cap for the fiscal year (FY) 2016 of 65,000 H-1B visa applications for the general category and 20,000…

DURING initial consultations, some debtors contemplating filing bankruptcy have expressed their personal preference of filing Chapter 7, instead of Chapter 13, for various reasons such as a shorter time frame…

THE Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers of Inadmissibility for Certain Immediate Relatives allows certain immediate relatives (spouses, children under 21 years old and parents of US citizens) to apply for provisional…

A LOT of debtors prefer to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, otherwise called liquidation bankruptcy, because most debtors can get a discharge of all or most of their debts under this…

IN a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy petition, the debtor is required to list down in the bankruptcy petition all his assets in the applicable schedules which are part of the bankruptcy…

AS you may be aware, Judge Andrew Hanen, a federal judge in Texas, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of the planned expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)…

THE USCIS has recently announced that it will start accepting applications for the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on February 18, 2015 (and not a day earlier). Based…

AMONG the series of executive actions on immigration which President Obama announced last 11/20/14 is the expansion of the use of provisional waivers of unlawful presence to include the spouses…

Among the executive actions on immigration announced by President Obama last 11/20/2014 is the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability or DAPA. DAPA is a form of a prosecutorial discretion program…