We’ve been getting a lot of panicked phone calls lately from clients who have been granted their permanent residency, but whose green cards are expiring. To this I always answer: don’t panic. Unless you have a conditional 2-year green card, your permanent residency is…well…permanent. Even if your green card expires you are STILL a permanent resident.
If you are in a gay or lesbian marriage, can you get a green card if one spouse is already a green card holder or US citizen? The short answer is YES. Same sex marriage has been legal nationwide in the United States since June 2015…
Close to 800,000 people in the United States have been protected (more than the current population of Seattle) under the DACA executive order that came into effect under former President Obama. If you include those young people that applied for the program and didn’t get into it, or those who were eligible, but hadn’t applied yet, all in this change affects upwards of over a million young people in the United States and their families.
Obviously it’s an understatement to say that the new Trump order stinks. Temporarily suspending the H1B visa, and other work visas makes no sense, by ignoring the US need for workers in healthcare, schools, camps, technology, and so many other industries especially during Covid. The mythological argument that immigrants steal jobs is older than America itself.
This week I’m going to be talking about some positive things, and giving people some realistic perspective on the executive order that came out from the President last week. I say realistic because as I try to keep to reminding people: you have to be careful what you read, and listen to. Fear sells; and fear drives the media more and more in the post 9.11 era. It’s just a fact.