Category Archives: Immigration
What Are Your Responsibilities In Removal Proceedings?
Being deported is not something any immigrant expects. But the reality is that many immigrants are deported every year from the United States of America. According to Pew Research Center, in 2018, 337,000 immigrants were deported from the United States. Of the 337,000 immigrants deported in 2018, 44% had criminal convictions. Apart from criminal… Read More »
Some Crucial Things To Know If You Are Facing Deportation
Facing deportation is a serious matter. If you are deported, it means you are removed from the United States of America. Apart from leading to removal from the U.S., if you are deported, it could adversely affect your ability to enter the U.S. again. If you are facing deportation, it is vital that you… Read More »
What Are Your Rights If You Are Facing Removal Proceedings?
Being in a removal proceeding is any immigrant’s worst nightmare. A removal proceeding is a proceeding to determine an immigrant’s removability under the nation’s immigration law. In other words, this is a proceeding to determine if an immigrant should be deported. There are various grounds for deportation in the U.S., including criminal convictions and… Read More »
Deportable Criminal Offenses
It is crucial for people to avoid being convicted of crimes. But it is especially vital for people who have not yet been naturalized as citizens to avoid conviction. For immigrants, being convicted of a criminal offense can have devastating consequences, with one of the possible consequences of a conviction being deportation. If you… Read More »
ICE Posing as Local Police to Arrest Immigrants In New York: Know Your Rights
The latest reports out of New York indicate that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are posing as local police in an effort to get around warrant requirements and enter peoples’ residences and surrounding areas in order to detain and arrest people, including DACA recipients. Statistics indicate that they recently arrested more than 170… Read More »
Proposed Rules Introduce Significant Complications for International Students & Immigrant Sponsors
In late September and early October, the Department of Homeland Security, through US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), proposed two rules that will have a significant impact on a number of immigrants if they are finalized as currently drafted. The first imposes an artificially-set, fixed period of time that all international students can remain… Read More »
Lawsuit Challenges Administration’s Refusal to Dismiss Immigration Removal Orders from Temporary Protected Status Beneficiaries
In late August, a number of immigrants who are unable to obtain green cards as a result of a new immigration policy put in place – and who are now vulnerable to removal as a result – brought a lawsuit challenging the administration, arguing that the policy violates the plain language of the Immigration… Read More »
New Limits On DACA Applicants & Renewals and Changes On the Horizon for H-1B Visa & Skilled Immigration Categories
After the US Supreme Court declared the administration’s rescission of the DACA program to be illegal, the Department of Homeland Security then announced that it would, altogether, cease processing new applicants; a move that one judge has already declared to be in violation of the US Supreme Court’s decision. The administration also announced that… Read More »
US Attorney General Opens Resolved Immigration Asylum Case After More Than a Decade to Consider Deportation
Attorney General William Barr recently opened an immigration asylum case that could have serious implications for those who have received asylum herein the US, indicating that, even after winning legal battles, protection could be revoked at any moment by the administration. The case involves that of Rashed Chowdhury, a top diplomat in Bangladesh’s embassy… Read More »
While Threat to Deport International Students Is Dropped, Questions Surrounding Reentry of Those with F-1 Visas Remain
In a significant reversal on immigration policy and in response to several lawsuits brought by a number of universities, on July 14, the administration changed course and agreed not to deport international college students who rely on online courses here in the US. The administration had not only threatened to deport the students, but… Read More »
