Author: Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova It is probably fair to say that majority of immigrants have lost hope that Immigration reform will happen any time soon. What seemed to be so possible in summer 2013, became a mere reminiscence in 2014. The Congress, however, is trying to revive the Immigration reform idea, and this past week released ...
Author: US Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova Benefits, Results and Solutions to authenticating documents for use in a foreign country. If you have family, friends or business in foreign countries, at some point you may be required to authenticate documents for use in that country. The most common issue arises when the documents need to become ...
Author: US Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova The right to representation in immigration court: a person in Immigration proceedings has a right to retain and be represented by a private counsel. However, there is no obligation on behalf of the government to provide a free immigration lawyer to somebody who is getting removed from the country. The ...
Author: New York Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova The Immigration Reform Bill "got stuck" in the House of Representative. Despite the optimistic predictions that we will have new Immigration laws prior to August, 2013, it did not happen. Why? The members of the House are divided between adopting one single Bill or multiple laws. There are on ...
Author: New York Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova DOMA can no longer be used against same sex couples held Board Of Immigration Appeals in its recent decision Matter of Oleg B. ZELENIAK, Beneficiary of a visa petition filed by Serge V. Polajenko, Petitioner 26 I&N Dec. 158 (BIA 2013). It is probably the first BIA decision issued after the ...
Author: US Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova Pursuant to INA § 101(a)(27)(J), under the classification of “Special Immigrant Juvenile”, certain undocumented individuals, who have been declared dependant on a juvenile court or placed in foster care, and whose reunification with one or both parents is not possible due to abuse, abandonment or neg ...
Author: US Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova For the past few months there has been a lot of talk about “Immigration Reform”. On Thursday, June 27, 2013, the current bipartisan immigration reform bill passed the Senate with a vote of 68-32. So what is all this talk about immigration reform really about? For the approximately eleven million und ...
Author: US Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova On June 26, 2013 the Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion in United States v. Windsor that caused rainbow flags to fly high all across the country. In Windsor, the Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act enacted by Congress violated the Fifth Amendment of the ...
Author: US Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova Dear Friends, We are happy to share the recent news that on June 26, 2013, Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor, struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, noting that “DOMA’s principal effect is to iden ...
Author: US Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova Immigration 800 Number: 1-800-898-7180 Immigration 800 number is an automotive system that provides updates on alien’s case processing dates such as next hearing date; status of the case; immigration clock… To use it, the person must know the A number of the subject of the call. There is no name dir ...
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