Over the last few weeks, there has been significant coverage of immigration in the media due to the government shutdown as well as President Trump's bold agenda to tighten border security and restrict immigration. While much attention has been given to the fate of...
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New Changes To Financial Sponsorship | Affidavit Of Support May Not Be Enough
Individuals seeking to immigrate to the United States must normally demonstrate that they will not be a "public charge"-that is, that they will not become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence (usually in the form of public cash assistance for income...
How To Prove A Strong Case of Extreme Hardship | New Rules and Policy
Starting next month (December 5, 2017), USCIS will begin implementing new policy guidance regarding extreme hardship waivers and how they should be adjudicated. The new instructions for officers, as laid out in the updated USCIS Policy Manual, is a tremendous resource...
Do Illegal and Undocumented Aliens Qualify For Driver Licenses in New Jersey?
There is a new bill making its way through the New Jersey Legislature that, if signed into law, would make New Jersey one of a select group of states to offer driving licenses to those who do not have lawful immigration status in the United States. The Bill, No. 2135,...
Can New Jersey Undocumented Aliens Hope For A New Immigration Law in 2014?
Late last week, the Republican Party finally released their much-anticipated list of principles regarding immigration reform, which the GOP was reluctant to grapple with last year. It is a one page document entitled "Standards for Immigration Reform" and arguably...
The Economics of Immigration Reform
Can our country afford Immigration Reform? That is the question raised by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation. He argues making 11 million illegal immigrants eligible for legal status would "generate costs in Medicare and Social Security alone of $2.5 trillion...
STATESIDE WAIVER TO BECOME A REALITY
DHS Secretary Janet Naplitano announced today the posting of a final rule in the Federal Register concerning the provisional or stateside waiver process that we had written about earlier. Under this new process--which will become effective March 4, 2013--waivers of...
Is It Better To ACHIEVE or to DREAM?
Is it better to Achieve, or to Dream? That is a question that was raised late last year by Senators Hutchison, Kyl, and McCain. They introduced the Achieve Act, which acts as a counter-offer to the Democrats' Dream Act. Both Acts seek to offer legal status to illegal...
Hope of Comprehensive Immigration Reform Not Good Enough
In an interesting decision out of the First Circuit, Sheikh vs. Holder, the Court of Appeals recently ruled that it was not an abuse of discretion for an Immigration Judge to deny a six-month continuance to the Respondent to wait for the passage of comprehensive...
DREAM Deferred Action and Travel
DREAM Deferred Action and Advance ParoleA common question that is being asked these days by DREAMERS is whether they can apply for permission to travel in addition to permission to work. The short answer is no. While at some point, USCIS anticipates allowing...