US Immigration Publications
20 March 2019
Author: New York Immigration Attorney Alena Shautsova
VAWA is relief available to certain batted spouses, parent and children, of USC or LPR. 212(h) waiver helps those applying for adjustment of status or an Immigrant visa to waive inadmissibility related to certain convictions, including, at times, aggravated felony convictions. 212(h) waiver i ...
14 March 2019
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 ...
20 December 2018
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 ...
06 December 2018
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 ...
06 December 2018
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 ...
08 November 2018
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 ...
20 October 2018
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 ...
28 September 2018
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 ...
26 September 2018
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 ...
07 September 2018
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 ...