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By Attorney Nadia Khalid On September 11, 2018, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) introduced a policy that will allow visa adjudicators to deny visa applications or petitions without first issuing a request for additional evidence (“RFE”) or delivering a “notice of intent to deny” (“NOID”). The idea behind this policy is to deter
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By Attorney Cynthia Milian Around June 2018, we wrote about the case of Castro-Tum, where it was held that Immigration Judge’s (IJ’s) and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) do not have the general authority to suspend indefinitely immigration proceedings by administratively closing a case. Therefore, administrative closure is not something that is generally available in
Only mere hours after a grueling interview in the Houston Field Office and a gross mistake by USCIS, we received news that our client had been approved for his adjustment of status. Petitioner became a U.S. citizen before the client’s preference became current. Realizing the preference as an unmarried son and daughter of a legal
Approval for 245i Adjustment of Status and Retention of F2B Preference Read More »
August 20, 2018, was a very memorable day in the life of our client, a Mexico-born individual who genuinely believed that they were a U.S. citizen their entire life. Having been birthed by a midwife and registered late in the valley (Texas), the client had a U.S. birth certificate and lived in the U.S. as
Successful Matter of Quilantan Approval in Houston, TX after previous denial Read More »
Por la abogada Nadia Khalid El 05 de julio de 2018, los Servicios de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de los Estados Unidos (“USCIS”) revelaron nuevas pautas de política con respecto a las emisiones de Aviso de comparecencia. Un Aviso de comparecencia (“NTA”), según lo define el USCIS, “es un documento entregado a un extranjero que los
Por la abogada Michele Strickland Los Servicios de Inmigración y Ciudadanía de los EE. UU. (USCIS) publicaron un memorándum de política el viernes 13 de julio de 2018 anunciando su nueva política para denegar una solicitud, petición o pedido sin antes emitir una Solicitud de Evidencia (RFE) o Aviso de Intento de Denegación (NOID) cuando
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By attorney: Michele Strickland U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) posted a policy memorandum, on Friday July 13, 2018 announcing its new policy to deny an application, petition, or request without first issuing a Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID) when the required initial evidence was not submitted or the
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By attorney: Nadia Khalid On July 05, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) revealed new policy guidelines regarding Notice to Appear issuances. A Notice to Appear (“NTA”), as defined by USCIS, “is a document given to an alien that instructs them to appear before an immigration judge on a certain date…the issuance of an
USCIS Can Now Issue NTAs for Denial of an Application: What it means for you Read More »
What is Happening – A Humanitarian Crisis (Family Separation/Zero Tolerance) I know we have been inundated as immigration attorneys with more changes in the last year and a half than most of the Obama Administration but I want to give you an update from what I have seen on the ground regarding family separation. I
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By attorney: Nadia Khalid In the past few months, the asylum-seeking process has experienced harsh changes and new policy directives which have changed the factors affecting the credibility and/or provability of an asylum seeker’s case. One of the factors we have noticed while attending asylum interviews is the effect of switching from an alternate visa
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