New York Lawyer's Legal Updates
What is the Help Separated Families Act?
23 February 2013Author: Deportation Lawyer Alena Shautsova Deportation has separated children from their families even when the children are U.S. citizens. In July of 2012, U.S. Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard introduced an immigration bill called The Help Separated Families Act, H.R. 6128 to deal with this problem. The number of U.S. citizen children placed ...
Same Sex Partners Working to Obtain Marriage Petitions
22 February 2013Author: Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova Toward the end of 2012, the New York Daily News reported that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on a case that could lead to a major change in immigration law. The court ruled that the Defense in Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. In December, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to ...
ICE Agents Suing the Department of Homeland Security
15 February 2013Author: Deportation Attorney Alena Shautsova Judge Allows Case to Go Forward for ICE Agents Suing the Department of Homeland Security In August, 2012, Fox News reported that 10 federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents and officials sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Mor ...
Recent Bi-Partisan Effort at Immigration Reform
12 February 2013Author: Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova A bi-partisan group of Senators consisting of four Democrats and four Republicans recently released a plan for comprehensive immigration reform to be used as a springboard for legislation that fills in the details. The group consisted of the following: Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Michael B ...
What is DACA and Its Complications?
08 February 2013Author: Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova DACA is an acronym frequently popping up in the news and it refers to the federal program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program allows individuals who came to the United States as children and who meet certain qualifications to request deferred action against removal for two years. ...
How Can Notario Fraud Impede Immigration?
05 February 2013Author: Law Office of Alena Shautsova Unfortunately, immigrants looking for an easy solution to immigration problems may fall prey to notario fraud. The American Bar Association explains that notario fraud involves individuals who fraudulently represent themselves as attorneys and say they can handle your immigration issues before the United State ...
Tips On Interactions With USCIS
01 February 2013Author: Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova Immigration attorneys and immigrants are interacting with the USCIS on a regular basis, whether they want to or not. Here are some practical tips that may be useful to those who receive and send forms to the USCIS and follow up on them. G-28 Form has to contain original signatures of attorney and th ...
Who Can Benefit From Provisional Waiver
01 February 2013Author: Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova On March 4, 2013 new immigration rules regarding the provisional waiver (I-601A) will come into effect (see more here). It is important to understand who may benefit from the new process of considering waivers of unlawful presence. First, the basic eligibility criteria for applying for the provisional ...
Immigration Reform under Georgia State Law Takes a New Turn
21 January 2013Author: Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova Similar to Arizona and Alabama, Georgia passed an immigration law that allowed law enforcement authorities to check the immigration status of criminal suspects. However, a court injunction stopped the police from initially implementing the status check. The Jurist reports that the US District Court for th ...
Can Those Facing Gang Violence in Native Countries Obtain U.S. Asylum?
17 January 2013Author: US asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova Gang violence as a source of persecution is a legal area that may soon come under further judicial scrutiny. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article about a case involving an undocumented minor named Josue Rafael Orellana Garcia, who fled from Honduras when he was 17 and illegally entered the Un ...