Firm News

• Senior Partner Jeff Joseph Client Success Story

  Today I got green card approvals for a family from Chile. I have represented the family since 2010. They were here on L1A visas. In 2015, their I-140 EB1 was denied because USCIS could not understand the concept that his company would need an international executive to manage a mechanical heavy equipment distributor. At the time, the company was grossing 3 million dollars and had 3 employees. We appealed to the AAO and simultaneously filed a new i-140 because by the time the appeal was filed the business had tripled in size and was grossing 9 million dollars and had 6 US employees and 16 in Chile.

• Partner Aaron Hall Quoted in Article: Trump’s AG Pick Likely To Channel Sessions On Immigration

  Trump’s AG Pick Likely To Channel Sessions On Immigration
  By Nicole Narea
  Law360 (January 28, 2019) — As William Barr’s nomination to serve as U.S. attorney general continues to move through the Senate, immigration attorneys anticipate a Justice Department head in the mold of predecessor Jeff Sessions that would maintain a hard line on immigration enforcement and actively work to set precedents at the Board of Immigration Appeals.
  Attorneys said that both Barr’s record as the U.S.

• Senior Attorney Alex McShiras is representing Oscar Guerrero-Olivares and quoted in article: ICE Raids Poor Richard’s, Leaves Dreamer Facing Uncertain Future

  ICE Raids Poor Richard’s, Leaves Dreamer Facing Uncertain Future 
  Dreams and nightmares
  By J. Adrian Stanley 
  At 9:39 a.m. on Jan. 16, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed into Poor Richard’s restaurant and arrested Oscar Guerrero-Olivares, a cook and cashier who had worked there for the past nine months.
  A Dreamer married to an American citizen, Oscar was taken to a privately run ICE detention facility in Aurora.