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A tourist visa may be denied for lack of ties to home country A person may not show any reason of returning back to the home country Applicant may reapply especially if consular officer is not giving applicant a fair chance Otherwise, applicant may want to wait for another six months before reapplying Raw Transcript: Read More
Misconceptions of having a US citizen child for parents legalization A US citizen child must be 21 years old to be able to petition for parents; 18 years old to petition for sibling Cannot get green card by having a minor US citizen child Raw Transcript: Introduction: You ask we answer your immigration questions. Simple. Read More
Overstayed visa and now married to a US citizen. Can she still get a green card? Despite overstaying visa, someone who is married to a US citizen may be able to legalize his/her status. The key is the proper inspection at the port of entry Any criminal offense or fraud may subject to bars Raw Read More
the process if you want to change the status from one visa to green card must be physically in the US in order to adjust status immigration petition must already have been approved if priority date is not current then you cannot file petition for adjustment of status must have not entered the US illegally Read More
What does it mean that the President is going to end the secure communities program? – The secure communities program gave police the power to control immigration – Police can stop and question suspected illegal immigrants – This sowed fear among undocumented immigrants – Governors and mayors refused to cooperate with the federal government – Read More
Continuation of Episode 17: Employment-based executive action • Optional Practical Training (OPT), typically allowing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics students to work for a year. Changes would expand coverage of OPT occupations and extend validity of OPT • Opportunities for foreign investors, researchers and founders of startups; allow them to stay here and conduct research Read More
Visa allocation for highly skilled workers should improve visa processing Government will work with State Department so that all visas authorized by Congress will be issued to people who are eligible The wait time should be reduced Improve process for determining when visas are available Rules will be put in place so that priority dates Read More
Raw Transcript: Introduction: You ask we answer your immigration questions. Simple. And now your host immigration lawyer Jacob Sapochnick. Jacob: Thank you guys for joining me again on another quick episode of Ask An Immigration Lawyer. Questions, emails, messages on our Facebook page. It’s been great so far. Keep sending those questions. We try to Read More
Raw Transcript: Introduction: You ask we answer your immigration questions. Simple. And now your host immigration lawyer Jacob Sapochnick. Jacob: Hello everybody. Thanks for joining for another episode of Ask An Immigration Lawyer. And we continue a series of breaking down some important issues of the executive action announcement by President Obama on November 20th. Read More
Raw Transcript: Introduction: You ask we answer your immigration questions. Simple. And now your host immigration lawyer Jacob Sapochnick. Jacob: Thank you for joining our show, listening to us. I’m getting a lot of emails recently for people asking questions about the new executive action mostly and our first several episodes are going to talk Read More
