US Immigration Publications
03 July 2013
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 ...
01 July 2013
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 ...
27 June 2013
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 ...
01 June 2013
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 ...
06 May 2013
Author: US Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova
Finally, after long debates and preparations, the immigration reform Bill has been introduced for discussions and its draft has been made available for public review. Why do we say "a draft"? Because until it is actually adopted as the law the draft is only a proposal. It means that some of the propose ...
30 April 2013
Author: US Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova
The injury and death toll of the Boston marathon bombing reached 264 injured
persons and three deaths. While the nation shifted its attention to this tragic event,
the fact that the men accused of the bombing were two legal immigrants from
Chechnya raised questions about national security and pro ...
23 April 2013
Author: US Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova
The Indiana immigration bill allowed authorities to arrest non-citizens without the use
of warrants and prevented immigrants from using consular ID cards as a means of
identification. However, according to a Reuter's article, the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) brought a class-action lawsu ...
17 April 2013
Author: US Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova
As The Immigration Bill Nears Its Final Draft, Two Top Issues Emerge: Citizenship Contingent On Tightened Border Security
Senators comprising the gang of eight are expected to release the final draft for the long-awaited immigration bill this week. However, it appears that the thorny issue in gettin ...
29 March 2013
Author: Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova
The eight Senators, called the Gang of Eight, who are in charge of writing a bi-partisan bill for immigration reform reached an agreement about the most contested aspect of the bill. After weeks of deliberating over a draft, the senators came to a private agreement behind closed doors about a proposal f ...
20 March 2013
Author: Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova
While Congress is polarized on many issues regarding immigration, one point they agree on is that E-Verify is crucial for immigration reform. The "gang of eight," which refers to the eight bipartisan senators planning immigration reform, included use of E-verify in their proposal as did the President in t ...