Author: New York Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova With the new year comes new hopes: the House Democrats introduced a new Immigration Bill that potentially can help millions ...those who have TPS and Dreamers. The Bill, if passed, would allow TPS holders to file for a green card directly. Then, once a person spends five years in a green card ...
Author: NY Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova Form I 131 can be used for a variety of applications connected with travel: A refugee travel document, parole in place, a reentry permit, etc. Often, persons who have a pending adjustment of status in the US, for example, would apply for permission to travel abroad while the application is pending. F ...
Author: New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova In June of 2018, the US Supreme court allowed Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0 to be implemented. According to this Ban, nationals of certain countries cannot receive a visa or enter the US without a waiver. The country affected by the Ban are Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. Accordin ...
Author: New York Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova President Trump ordered Immigration authorities to make changes to the employment Immigration law, and the changes are coming. The administration posted a copy of the proposed H1B rules that would change the landscape of the H1B immigration. Specifically, the new rules would require all emp ...
Author: US Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova 2018 midterm elections are over: Republicans won the Senate, and Democrats the House. It means that now, more than ever, the Congress will be divided, and any law will be even harder to pass. The Senate has some important powers that would limit all House’s initiatives to challenge the current pow ...
Author: New York Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova False statements during the immigration process generally make a person inadmissible and deportable but eligible for a waiver. However, some particular statements come with even worse consequences: permanent bar from the US and disqualifier for any immigration benefits. For example, claims to US ...
Author: New York Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova NTA or Notice to Appear is a charging document with the filing of which starts a removal (deportation) proceeding against a person in the US. Ordinary, it would be ICE (or immigration “police”) that would issue an NTA after it determined there are grounds for a person’s removal from the US. P ...
Author: New York Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova DHS has published an advance copy of the Public Charge Rogations. A “public charge” inadmissibility ground has been in the US laws for a long time, but the way the government officials were have been considering cases now is going to change. Ordinarily, when a person is being sponsored for a ...
Author: New York Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova Just a few months ago, the entire Immigration community became very excited after the US Supreme Court held that the Notice to Appear that does not list specific date and time for the hearing cannot be used for the “stop-time” rule purposes, opening the door for thousands of immigrants to reope ...
Author: New York Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova A continuance in Immigration court can be a necessity: you might need to ask the Immigration judge to postpone your hearing for a later date because you submitted a petition/application for USCIS and its outcome will determine your case; or because you need more time to find an attorney; or bec ...
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