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 […]
I’m in the midst of one of the most rewarding projects of my professional career. Our firm (with the help of some amazing volunteers) has been meeting with Afghans who were evacuated from their home about a year ago. As we work with them to prepare their asylum applications, we interview them on why they
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The Central American Minor (CAM) was* a short-lived and well-meaning program. In 2014, over 50,000 children fled Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. They were fleeing horrific gang violence, poverty and – in many cases – they were coming to see parents who had moved to the U.S. years earlier. To discourage the incredibly dangerous journey,
Young Love
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I hope you had a wonderful holiday season! It feels like late November to early January is just one big blur. From casework to holiday parties to signing a new lease (details coming soon!) to this never-ending pandemic…I’m sure you feel it too. Let’s talk about the good, first. We ended the year with three
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I know it’s been a tough 20 months. I hit a brick wall in the late summer/early fall and began to wonder when and if things would get better. I’m sure we’ve all had that moment at some point this year. The good news is that it does get better! I’ll talk more about some
If you follow us on social media (and I hope you do! See the buttons on the top right for more info), you know that we celebrate our clients’ victories every month. This past month has been extra-special, though, and I’d like to talk a little about a few of the cases behind the numbers.
On June 26, 2013, I was in San Francisco at the Annual Conference for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. On that day, the U.S. Supreme Court announced their decision in Windsor, saying that the federal government could not discriminate against same-sex couples. Windsor was about survivor benefits, but all of us at the conference knew that
Helping ALL Families Stay Together Read More »
One of the things I love most about my job is watching people’s lives transform when they no longer have to worry about immigration. It’s like watching a butterfly emerge from a cocoon – beautiful and free. Their lives are wide open and full of opportunity. This is particularly meaningful when we get to see
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We met Amy (not her real name) in early 2016 – she wanted to know if she could apply for lawful permanent resident status. She had been married to a US citizen for the last 10 years and was the mother of four US citizen children. In the mid-1980s, she came to the United States
30 Years Later We Found the Missing Piece of the Puzzle Read More »
One of the best things about being around for a few years is that I get to see clients go through several steps of the immigration process – going from undocumented to getting status to becoming a lawful permanent resident and then becoming a U.S. citizen. In 2013, just about a year after the firm
Closing the Circle – From Undocumented to US Citizen Read More »
