November 11, 2016|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump has said some very worrisome things about what he intends to do to immigrants. But he has also said a variety of totally inconsistent and sometimes impossible things. Here is a list of his 10 point immigration “plan”: Build the wall End “catch and release.” Create a deportation task force […]
November 9, 2016|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
I am completely stunned to be typing this, but Donald Trump has just been elected President of the United States. Mr. Trump built much of his campaign around the promises of intensified immigration enforcement. Mr. Trump has promised that he will handle what he sees as the evils of immigration by building a wall on […]
October 25, 2016|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
After the Attorney General’s 2015 decision (“Silva-Trevino 2”), that vacated the 2008 precedent decision in Matter of Silva-Trevino (“Silva-Trevino 1”), the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) just developed an important uniform standard that has wide applicability to immigration and criminal law. The case was remanded to the BIA to determine whether a particular criminal offense […]
October 24, 2016|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
On December 23, 2016, the new fee schedule for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) application and petition filing fees will go into effect. Family-based petitions, employment-based petitions, and naturalization applications will all be affected. For example, the I-130 Petition for an Alien Relative will go up from $420 to $535. The I-129 Petition for […]
October 18, 2016|Contributed by: Courtney E. Butler, Esq.
In an election season fraught with claims of building a wall along the Mexican border and making Mexico pay for it, the importance of an effective border security plan that serves national security concerns but also ensures due process rights for all becomes even more apparent. The truth about border security and detention is not […]
September 29, 2016|Contributed by: Courtney E. Butler, Esq.
The United States Supreme Court announced today that it will decide the question of whether 18 U.S.C. § 16(b), as incorporated into the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), is unconstitutionally vague. In 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the statute, which defines a “crime of violence,” is unconstitutionally vague. A conviction for […]
September 23, 2016|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
The Diversity Visa Lottery is a congressionally mandated system that provides immigrant visas to randomly selected individuals from regions and countries around the globe with historically low numbers of immigrants to the United States. For Fiscal Year 2018 (which runs from October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018), 50,000 immigrant visa numbers are available to […]
September 21, 2016|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over immigration cases in Colorado, on Monday ruled in a case called Golicov v. Lynch that a portion of the immigration law’s “crime of violence” statute is unconstitutionally vague. Section 16 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code defines the term “crime of violence” to include […]
August 26, 2016|Contributed by: Jennaweh Hondrogiannis, Esq.
After President Obama announced his plan to expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and to introduce Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA), which would defer the deportation of undocumented parents of U.S. citizens, 26 states joined in a suit against the administration stating that the President had exceeded his executive authority. The suit was […]
August 25, 2016|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
Visitors to the United States, including those using the Visa Waiver Program and those using Visitors Visas, have long been required to fill out forms to submit to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) prior to admission to the United States. On June 23, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) submitted a proposal which would […]
