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Benefits, Results and Solutions to Authenticating Documents

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 ...

How Important Is The Right To Representation In Immigration Court?

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 ...

Green Card Based on Employment

Author: Green Card Attorney Alena Shautsova Employment based green card implies different options: first, the employment based visas maybe immigrant (EB) and non-immigrant (visas category H, L, O, P, etc. please see Non-Immigrant US visas here). Non Immigrant visas are given for temporary stay in the US, and the implication is if the person would ...

Asylum Confidentiality: The Right and Its Breach

Author: Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova Very often a decision to file an asylum claim is a difficult one. It is not because the person has not suffered persecution or lacks proof of his/her claim, but because the person is afraid that the information he / she shares with the government will be conveyed to his/her persecutors and the person will be h ...

Political Asylum in The USA For Belarusian Citizens

Author: Asylum Attorney Alena Shautsova Asylum applicants are often confused as to what exactly they need to show in court or during the interview to be able to sustain a successful claim. The fact that a person happens to be from a particular country, even if it is well known for violations of human rights, does not by itself guarantee that a per ...

Green Card Based On Investment

Author: US Green Card Lawyer Alena Shautsova A substantial investment is one of the ways of receiving residency in the United States. This type of immigration can also be referred to as EB-5 visa. What is an EB-5 visa? The Immigrant Investor Program, also known as “EB-5,” was created by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job ...

Green Card Based on VAWA

Author: US Green Card Attorney Alena Shautsova VAWA stands for Violence Against Women Act. It is a law that allows victims of domestic violence, those who are or were in certain relationship with a US citizen or a U.S. permanent resident to sponsor themselves into the country without the help of the abusive US citizen or permanent resident. The la ...

Undocumented Workers May Recover Unpaid Wages

Author: New York Employment Attorney Alena Shautsova Thousands of US small and large business employ immigrants who the government calls “undocumented”. Those are men and women who earn their living and pay taxes but do not have a permit to work in the United State. They are not necessarily employed as agricultural or domestic workers. Quite ofte ...

Immigration Reform Updates

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 ...

Discrimination At Work: Who Is A “supervisor”?

Author: New York Employment Discrimination attorney Alena Shautsova Workplace discrimination is one of the most unpleasant and upsetting things that may happen to anyone. One may think that in 21 century most employers are aware of the consequences of singling out an employee based on sex, race, place of origin, disability or age. The reality, how ...