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
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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
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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
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We first met Catherine (not her real name) about a year ago. She told us about how she had entered into an arranged marriage in her home country to a man she only met briefly and how when she came to the United States to join him, her hopes for a relationship built on trust,
From Hopeful Bride to Trafficking Victim to Woman on a Mission Read More »
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We met Sam (not his real name) in October 2015. He came with a Request for Evidence on a green card case that he and his wife had filed about a year earlier and wanted to know if we could help respond – he had apparently filed for a green card with this same wife
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