Q: I HAVE worked at XY Company, a big processing plant in the Inland Empire, for many years. My direct employer is really ABC LLC, which subcontracts labor to XY Company. My coworkers and I often work more than 8 hours per day, 6 to 7 days per week at XY Company but we are…
PEOPLE come to me every day with different reasons for getting out of debt. Most of the time, I’m thinking that they would have been better off had they come to me sooner to get help. Had they done this, they’d be doing a lot better by now and could have avoided a lot of…
THE USCIS Service Centers have recently received guidance and new instructions for their adjudicators relating to the timing of creating new jobs and explaining the meaning of “full-time” for positions created through the “EB-5” investor program investment. In apparent response to some unwarranted shifts in adjudicatory processes and the Service Center’s imposition of more stringent…
How strange, the demented feeling it gives me. I realized that I have spent agonizing whole days before a pen and a notebook, with nothing better to do but jot down notes at random. I rap out sentences. It does not help me think, it only eases my crabbed heart. I wish a notebook could…
LOS ANGELES – In California, the voting landscape has changed. As populations and demographics continue to shift, particularly in big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, the factors influencing voter participation have changed with the upcoming November elections. Organizations like the New America Media are studying the reasons for these changes and taking efforts…
A US District Court judge has ordered AgeWay Senior Care Inc., a family-owned senior home care company and residential facility centered in the Bay Area, to pay at least $134,682 in back wages and damages to 13 Filipino care givers working in and around Silicon Valley, Calif. The owner and proprietor, Ana Dayeh, was ordered…
Last Sunday, October 12, 2014, the Pan American Concerned Citizens Action League, Inc. (PACCAL) nailed it again when it pompously celebrated its 22nd founding anniversary with an alluring touch of class amid the grandiosity of an exhilarating ambience. Inspired by this year’s theme, “A Night in Vienna,” Ramada Plaza Hotel’s Grand Ballroom was magically transformed…
WHEN the marital relationship sours to the point where one or both spouses believe that the marriage cannot be salvaged, three remedies are available to terminate or alter the marital status: dissolution, nullity, and legal separation. Under Family Code Sec. 2300, dissolution of marriage can be attained and the “single” status of spouses restored by…
A US District Court judge has ordered AgeWay Senior Care Inc., a family-owned senior home care company and residential facility centered in the Bay Area, to pay at least $134,682 in back wages and damages to 13 Filipino care givers working in and around Silicon Valley, Calif. The owner and proprietor, Ana Dayeh, was ordered…
LOS ANGELES – In California, the voting landscape has changed. As populations and demographics continue to shift, particularly in big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, the factors influencing voter participation have changed with the upcoming November elections. Organizations like the New America Media are studying the reasons for these changes and taking efforts…
GLENDALE, Calif. — The City of Glendale joins the Filipino community in celebrating the month of October as the annual Filipino American History Month. On Tuesday, Oct. 14, the Glendale City Council passed a resolution proclaiming that Glendale “recognizes of the increasing number of Filipinos who live and work in the City, and therefore join…
Silicon Valley’s tech companies have released public reports of the gender and racial diversity of their workforces. Google made headlines when it publicly revealed its data for the first time in an upfront blog post. “Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity, and it’s hard to address these kinds of…
HERE it comes! The season of ghosts, ghouls, witches, and, of course… candy! If you’re savvy about it, there’s no reason for your Halloween fun to come at the expense of your dental health. Rule 1: A little candy all at once is probably better than candy all day long When it comes to your…
The November 2014 Visa Bulletin provides more great news for Filipinos, as the priority dates in the various family and employment categories continue to move forward. Each month, the Visa Office of the State Department publishes, in the Visa Bulletin, the priority dates for that particular month, for the various family and employment based categories….
A 24-year-old lass has big shoes to fill as she represents the country in London this December in the Miss World pageant. Filipino-German Valerie Clacio Weigmann was crowned Miss World Philippines last October 12 at the Mall of Asia Arena—taking over last year’s winner and reigning Miss World Megan Young. Winning over the other 25…
“I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them – there’s only…
The Ebola crisis in the West African countries of Guinea, where it started in December 2013 and spread in March 2014 to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria, the deadliest ever in history, has been so well-covered in various media that it has eclipsed the notoriety of graver killer diseases in our midst today. True, Ebola…
(Los Angeles, CA October 13, 2014) The Fil-Am directed horror film, “Voodoo Possession” featuring genre legend Danny Trejo hosts online salute to Filipinos in horror. Fil-Am Creative, the largest Filipino American organization for entertainment and media, is hosting a 2-week salute to Filipinos in the horror film genre at Filamcreative.org starting Oct. 17 and leading up to Halloween. The…
Vonderrit Myers, the black 18-year-old who was shot and killed last week by an off-duty police officer, was found to have gunshot residue on his hands and clothing. The crime lab results were released Tuesday, after four days of escalating protests in St. Louis, where the incident took place on October 8. In their report,…
LAS VEGAS—An honest Las Vegas taxicab driver who returned $300,000 in cash found in the back of his cab was named as this year’s Best Taxicab Driver in America. Gerardo Gamboa, who has been working with Checker Cab Company for 25 years, received national attention for his simple act of integrity. In December 2013, Gamboa…
Traveling is a pleasurable thing to do; but planning a travel? That’s a different story. Browsing the World Wide Web to find the best yet cheapest flight and accommodation fares will yield to cluttered tabs and five long hours; and still, this does not guarantee a wonderful travel. Gruesome, indeed. Good thing, there are travel…
IN any business, feedback is an essential tool in determining success. A good businessman would know that for his business to really succeed, he must know what his customer base thinks about his products and services. Since time immemorial, Pres. Benigno Aquino III has made “tuwid na daan” (straight path) as his leadership’s mantra. In…
BLESSINGS continue to pour in for The Filipino Channel’s 20th year celebration with the opportunity to give back to all our kapamilyas in North America. Just last Tuesday, TFC’s daily newscast Balitang America’s coverage of Typhoon Yolanda’s 24-hour telethon won the 2014 Cablefax Best Shows or Series News, beating Jorge Ramos Fusion Network’s “America”, E! Entertainment’s…
YESTERDAY, a new client I saw said that she had been in a Chapter 13 paying $400/month for the last 12 months. But next year after her car was paid off, the plan payment would increase to $1,000/month which she would not be able to pay considering that her income had decreased by about $30,000…
“THAT, if all printers were determined not to print anything, till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed… That I got five schillings by it. That none who are angry with me would have given me so much to let it alone…yet, I shall not therefore leave off Printing…
Second case of Ebola reported in the US “Think Ebola” is the new protocol of hospitals nationwide. Federal officials have urged hospital staff to keep watch for symptoms of the viral disease, which has spread to the US last month with travelers hailing from West African nations. Authorities are still investigating the case of Thomas…
“I KNOW how to live in humble circumstance; I know also how to live with abundance. In every circumstance and in all things I have learned the secret of being well fed and of going hungry, of living in abundance and of being in need.” (Philippians 4:12-14) Such were the words of St. Paul in…
EVEN the United States, home of one of the best health cares system in the world, is not immune to the deadly Ebola virus, despite prior efforts to block the disease from entering the country. Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who came to America to attend his son’s graduation, experienced symptoms of Ebola five…
MY San Francisco Bay Area colleague and dear friend, Rodel Rodis, has just written an opinion piece in the Philippine Daily Inquirer entitled, “A sometimes clueless president.” It bewails what, in effect, was the cold shoulder that Noynoy Aquino gave to Filipino-Americans on his recent trip to the US. The piece was the last thing…
MOST people who follow immigration law are familiar with adjustment of status, which is the process that allows an alien who was inspected and admitted or paroled into the US to apply for lawful permanent residence (LPR) while in the US. Adjustment applications are often filed under INA 245(a) which requires that an alien be…
