After 8 years and with our help, our client obtained a marriage-based green card. He is finally a Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States! Our team first started working with a wonderful, young gay man from a country where he was persecuted. Eight years ago, we filed for asylum for him--right at the time when the asylum system started to drastically slow down from about a 1-2 year timeframe to the current 5 to Read More
Expedited Travel Document and Green Card in One Visit
Recently, we were able to help one of our clients to get approval on her green card and expedited travel documents. She got a change to visit their very ill mother in India. Our client was waiting on a pending green card application and urgently needed to leave the country. She wanted to see her ill mother and to take care of her. Our attorney was able to get her an appointment to request to expedite her application Read More
USCIS offices to waive up to 80% of family-based interviews
USCIS District 11 (MA/RI/NH/ME/VT) recently announced that USCIS National has directed local USCIS offices to waive up to 80% of family-based interviews. This is a huge change in USCIS practice, especially for marriage-based green card cases. Historically, almost ALL marriage-based green card cases required the US citizen spouse and the noncitizen spouse to appear at at USCIS office for an interview, before the Read More
Peace of Mind After 11 Years!
This week our firm obtained a big win for one of our clients at their removal hearing. Our client had been in removal proceedings since 2011. Our client suffered 11 years of stress because of the removal proceedings. Our attorney was able to gather strong evidence and argued a strong compelling argument in favor of our client. The court granted our client his green card. Not only will our client get his green card, Read More
Temporary Protected Status Approval for Healthcare Worker
Last year the Secretary of Homeland Security designated Haiti for Temporary Protected Status. Our client, a Haiti national, hired us to apply for TPS, an employment authorization document and a temporary travel permit. After waiting for over a year, his applications were approved! With his approved work permit he is able to continue his medical training and to work in a field that is always in demand but constantly Read More
Two Approved Naturalization Applications in One Week
Last week, two of our clients had their Naturalization interviews. Their naturalization applications both got approved! One of cases dealt with a green card holder that after living in the U.S. for over 40 years finally decided to apply for their U.S. citizenship. The other approval required intense preparation for the interview due to their prior arrest. If you need to talk to an experienced immigration Read More
May Day
Laborers around the world stormed the streets for May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, in celebration of the working-class and in pursuit of related social and economic legislation. Among the most important issues was the rights of immigrant workers. In Milwaukee specifically, more than 4,000 people assembled, organized by Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant worker’s rights group based in Wisconsin’s Read More
The End of Title 42
The Biden Administration will be ending a Trump-era public emergency health order (Title 42) that allowed immigration authorities to turn away migrants at the border. This previous restriction had included those seeking asylum. Title 42 was instituted by the Trump administration in May of 2020 as a result of the pandemic. It was very likely driven by political motivations. President Biden then continued these Read More
Employment Authorization Documents Finally Approved!
Over the course of the past month, three of our clients’ employment authorization documents were approved. As a huge improvement over horrendously slow processing times at USCIS in the past few years, we are excited for these clients whose employment authorization documents approvals came just one month after filing for adjustment of status. The clients and their US citizen spouses are extremely happy that they will Read More
Immigrant Archive Project
The Immigrant Archive Project was founded by Tony Hernandez and Gustavo Pombo in 2008 to document the stories of the United States’ immigrant communities. Now, the visual history project will take its place in the Library of Congress. The Immigrant Archive Project will be included in the Handbook of Latin American Studies Web Archive, a larger collection of culturally significant sites preserved by the Library. These Read More
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