Posted on Apr 20, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Everyone is certainly relieved that at least part of the most dangerous aspect of the Boston Marathon investigation has come to a close with the killing and capture of the two suspects in the bombing. ...
Continue reading "Immigration Reform and Security" »
Posted on Apr 19, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Finally, a group of Senators have formally introduced an outline of their version of Comprehensive Immigration Reform. This has been met with both applause and opposition. We can only hope that the ...
Continue reading "Immigration Reform Update" »
Posted on Apr 15, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The so-called, "Committee of 8" will reveal details of their proposed immigration reform bill on Tuesday April 16th. The new bill is thought to deal with the nearly 11 million undocumented ...
Continue reading "Immigration Reform Details Set to Be Revealed April 16th" »
Posted on Apr 11, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Currently when a person appears at a USCIS office for immigration business, they are required to pass through a metal-detector and are subject to a search of their person or property. Additionally, ...
Continue reading "New Security Procedures at USCIS Field Offices" »
Posted on Apr 10, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Recent resarch published on Tuesday indicates that comprehensive immigration reform could improve the United States economy. The reseach cites a higher birth rate, labor force participation, and the ...
Continue reading "Immigration Reform Could Boost U.S. Economy" »
Posted on Mar 14, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
There are indications from unnamed sources that the idea of a national ID card is being scrapped because it would be too costly and difficult to manage. There have been several lawmakers in the past ...
Continue reading "National ID Card / E Verify" »
Posted on Mar 13, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Secretary Napolitano told reporters that President Obama is anxiously awaiting a proposal from the group of democratic and republican lawmakers who have been meeting to try to hammer out a bi-partisan ...
Continue reading "President Obama Waiting for Immigration Reform Proposal" »
Posted on Mar 11, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Eight senators have agreed on a preliminary plan to overhaul the immigration laws of the United States and have also agreed on a path to legalization for the estimated 11 million undocumented ...
Continue reading "Immigration Reform Update - March 2013" »
Posted on Mar 6, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
In removal proceedings, one of the avenues for relief from deportation is an application for political asylum. One of the criteria for qualifying for political asylum is that the applicant must file ...
Continue reading "Excuse of One-Year Asylum Filing Deadline" »
Posted on Mar 5, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The Immigration Court, also known as the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) added two additional immigration judges to handle removal and deportation proceedings. Both Judges were added to ...
Continue reading "New Immigration Judges Appointed" »
Posted on Mar 4, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The House has passed the Senate's version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This version of VAWA enhances federal programs to assist local communities with law enforcement and to aid ...
Continue reading "Reauthorization of VAWA" »
Posted on Feb 28, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Scores of immigrants at detention centers all over the country are being released in anticipation of the looming budget cuts. One such center is the Broward Transitional Center located in Pompano ...
Continue reading "Joy and Outrage at the Release of Detainees From BTC" »
Posted on Feb 27, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
In a new case decided by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Court held that a retail theft conviction for which the defendant received a sentence of one year imprisonment is not an aggravated ...
Continue reading "Theft Offense in Georgia and Florida May Not Be Deportable Offenses" »
Posted on Feb 25, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Significant numbers of detainees were released from ICE detention centers across the country today, apparently in anticipation of sequestration. They are being released into alternative to detention ...
Continue reading "Many Released From Immigration Detention" »
Posted on Feb 21, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
In a very important U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Chaidez v. United States, the Court found that the decision in Padilla v. Kentucky was NOT retroactive. This decision is a blow to ...
Continue reading "U.S. Supreme Court: Padilla Not Retroactive" »
Posted on Feb 11, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
After a laborious first term plagued with an economic downfall, mortgage crisis, and health care crusade—during which immigration was left neglected in the back burner—newly re-elected ...
Continue reading "Obama's Call for Immigration Reform" »
Posted on Feb 9, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
With all the excitement about comprehensive immigration reform, there are some who may be adversely affected by a new immigration law. The Cuban popluation, for example, could see the law known as the ...
Continue reading "Cuban Adjustment Law Could Be In Jeapordy" »
Posted on Feb 8, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The House, on February 7th, defeated a proposed amendment to the immigration laws that would have made a third DUI conviction and any domestic violence conviction an aggravated felony. These ...
Continue reading "Stricter Immigration Laws Defeated" »
Posted on Jan 29, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Finally the time is right for immigration reform to come about. We have been ready for this for very long, pleading with lawmakers to hear the cries of their constituents and forge a compromise on ...
Continue reading "Bipartisan Immigration Law Overhaul" »
Posted on Jan 8, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
It would appear that a distinctive mark of a modern society is that their citizens tend to have considerably less children, especially as the rise in cost of living makes it ever more necessary for ...
Continue reading "How Immigration is the Solution to our Declining American Population" »
Posted on Jan 7, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The New Year is upon us, putting an end to a year with many developments made politically on the immigration front. The long awaited Supreme Court decision was rendered on the Arizona immigration law, ...
Continue reading "New Year Recap" »
Posted on Jan 3, 2013 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
President Obama, after avoiding our plunge off the fiscal cliff, now can focus on the rest of his domestic agenda which was laid out during the recent Presidential campaign. One of the domestic agenda ...
Continue reading "Immigration Reform Push January 2013" »
Posted on Jan 2, 2013 By Pozo Goldstein, LLP
The Secretary of Homeland Security just announced a new final rule that will promote family unity for visa applicants. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the final ...
Continue reading "New Final Rule May Help Visa Applicants Stay with Their Families" »
Posted on Dec 27, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The Federal Government announced that they are ending the program known as "287(g)". This program, named after the regulation authoriziing it, allowed for local law enforcement to be ...
Continue reading "The End of 287(g)" »
Posted on Dec 15, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The Mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, has begun an interesting initiative to help reinvigorate the city by attracting immigrants to bring the skills, entrepreneurship, and tax base needed ...
Continue reading "Baltimore Attracting Immigrants" »