New York Lawyer's Legal Updates
Choices For Abused Spouses
24 May 2016Author: Green Card Attorney Alena Shautsova When somebody enters into a marriage, they usually hope that the union would last forever and spouses would respect each another, and they would live happily –ever- after... Some marriages last for a long time, some forever, and some for days or hours. United States Immigration laws require that a non-c ...
Denaturalization: How US Government Can Take Citizenship Back
18 May 2016Author: US Citizenship Attorney Alena Shautsova The scariest nightmare for any former Immigrant: to be placed in proceedings where the US government is seeking to take back the granted citizenship. The good news here (yes, there is good news everywhere!): you would have rights and an opportunity to defend yourself in Court! Denaturalization must ...
Citizenship And Arrest
16 May 2016Author: Citizenship attorney Alena Shautsova Citizenship is, perhaps, the ultimate goal of any Immigrant. Generally, to qualify for citizenship through naturalization, a person has to hold a permanent resident status for 3 (if the permanent residency was based on marriage to a US citizen), or 5 years. An applicant should use form N400 and submit ...
USCIS Helps Those Affected By Earthquakes In Ecuador, Burma And Japan
05 May 2016Author: New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova Recent earthquakes and natural disasters affected thousands of nationals of Ecuador, Japan and Burma. While these regions have not been designated for Temporary Protected Status, USCIS promised to help nationals of these countries. What does that mean? It means that first, a national or a citiz ...
Filing I-130 Abroad By Military Petitioner
28 April 2016Author: Green Card Lawyer Alena Shautsova An I-130 form is a U.S. Immigration document that needs to be filed in order for a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident to sponsor a family member. This form is necessary for a husband to sponsor wife, for a brother to sponsor a brother and for a parent to sponsor a child. Usually, the form has to be f ...
Children As Dependents For Immigration Purposes
25 April 2016Author: New York Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova Earlier, I wrote a blog about who qualifies as a child for Immigration purposes. Here, I would like to discuss some situations when it is important not only to originally qualify as a child, but to retain such a qualification at the time of the adjudication of certain applications. When it come ...
Eb-4 Cap Is Reached For El Salvador, Honduras And Guatemala
21 April 2016Author: Green Card attorney Alena Shautsova USCIS reached its EB-4 Visa limit for Special Immigrants from the countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Essentially the cap has been backdated for applicants who have filed on or after January 1, 2010. Those who have filed after this date must wait for new visas to become available. The Fisca ...
How To File For Marriage Based Green Card
23 August 2020Author: Marriage Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps immigrants to apply for the marriage-based immigration benefits in the United States. One of the most common types of Immigration cases every practitioner encounters is an application for an immigration status based on marriage. These applicati ...
Parole In Place: Why To Use It And Where To Submit It
09 April 2016Author: New York Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova Parole in place is a discretionary action by the U.S. government that allows an individual who is in the United States without being properly inspected and admitted to be “admitted” into the country without leaving it. Parole in place can be applied for by members of the military families, as we ...
H1B Lottery: To Play Or Not To Play
09 April 2016Author: Work visas lawyer Alena Shautsova On April 7, 2016 USCIS announced that the cap for H1B petitions for the next fiscal year has been reached. It means that no new petitions subject to cap would be accepted. USCIS also announced that it received more petitions that the allocated quota and all received petitions subject to cap will be partici ...