There has been a lot of talk about illegal immigrants and deportation for the past week in the US. Getting deported is one of the main fears we hear when people come to our office. For many people, receiving a notice of deportation, (or worse – getting put into detention) can feel like the end of the line for their dreams of living lawfully in the US.
Immigrants with marriage based green cards face the need to file Removal of Conditions after initially receiving two year (“conditional”) status. Removal Of Conditions is filed on Form I-751. Universal rule: Marriage must be entered into in good faith.
With Conor McGregor’s quickly tweeted announcement that he is going to retire from the MMA, announced so soon after his latest legal woes, leaving people to speculate if the two events are related. McGregor has been in the news over the past 12 months for altercations in and around his big fights in the U.S. Last year it was an incident in which he assaulted a bus, injuring several people at New York’s Barclays Center, right before a UFC event…
Forgetting to file, or making errors when filing your change of address Form AR-11 with USCIS can lead to deportation. We have seen clients who say, “we did everything right, how can a change of address form lead to deportation?” Still we have to step in because they are facing removal. Here is what you need to know about filing your change of address form.
I’ve been an immigration lawyer for 23 yrs, and in that time I’ve seen many different approaches to our “border crisis”. Border crossings by immigrants without visas have occurred for decades, and for the longest time border crossers were treated fairly loosely by a system that knew we were a better landing place for many people in other parts of the world – particularly for our neighbours in the South.