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.
It seems that in the current political climate, government shutdowns are an annual event. This leaves many of our clients asking: how does this impact our immigration case? For this and any future shutdowns, we have created a general list of what is affected, and what maintains the status quo. When the government is in shutdown mode, many government agencies are affected and people are told to stay home – without pay – and put on furlough (after previous government shutdowns, these people were paid retroactively for their time off work). All non-essential agencies are shut down ASAP.
Every year between 700,000-750,000 people are naturalized in the United States. The process can be straightforward, or incredibly complex depending on the case…
