I love it when a good plan comes together – especially when it’s Plan B! In 2019, we were hired by Sarai and Miguel to help them with Sarai’s immigration status. Miguel was a lawful permanent resident, Sarai had DACA and they had recently gotten married. Sarai explained that she had entered the United States […]
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Yesterday marked the end of USCIS’s flexibility with responding to certain notices. From March 1, 2020 through March 23, 2023, if USCIS issued one of these: Request for Evidence; Continuation to Request Evidence (N-14); Notice of Intent to Deny; Notice of Intent to Revoke; Notice of Intent to Rescind; Notice of Intent to Terminate regional
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We received some really great news on Friday and I wanted to share! Our former client, Esther, hired us in 2017 to file a VAWA and green card application for her and her daughter. Esther had endured multiple sexual assaults prior to coming to the United States and she hoped to meet a man here
A Family Reunion Years in the Making Read More »
Did you ever look at something and just want to cry out of frustration? That’s how I feel when I look at the USCIS historical processing time chart. Nearly every day, I’m looking at processing times for our clients because they want to know why they don’t have a decision on their case and why
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We’re just past the half-way mark for the month, but I’m already so excited by the approvals our firm has received this month for our clients. In all of these stories, what kept the cases going was our clients’ hope. They didn’t give up – even though they were scared, had prior denials, were in
Starting the Year with Hope Read More »
I can’t think of a year more exciting for our firm than 2022. I’d love to take a moment and reflect on everything that happened over the last 12 months and share with you some of our biggest accomplishments and wins! We helped over 180 people achieve their immigration goals; we had some changes in
As USCIS processing times continue to slow (seriously, can we talk about how a fiance petition went from 6 months in 2018 to over 14 months in 2022?!?) and people to continue to wait for years to get an interview for an immigrant visa at various U.S. Embassies and Consulates, I get a lot of
No One Likes Waiting in Line: Expedite Requests Read More »
We file between 15 and 20 VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) cases every year, which is about 1% of the total VAWA cases filed each year with USCIS. For our firm with just one attorney, that’s a pretty significant number of VAWA cases, I think. I’ve spoken at conferences around United States on VAWA protections
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When I was a new lawyer, I worked for a fantastic male attorney. Whenever a domestic survivor (usually female) would have a consultation, my boss would bring me into the room and have me talk with her about her experiences. At first I wasn’t too happy about this – I thought he was doing this
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We’ve been working with Samantha (not her real name) and her family for a little over a year on a T visa. Samantha was the victim of severe human trafficking. She was brought to the US as a child and her parents then traded her for money. She was traded to a horrible human being
