As most of you know, this weekend President Trump signed an executive order called “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” This order has wide-ranging implications for foreign refugees, particularly from seven main countries. There is confusion and a lot of panic out there about what this order means. On Monday, January 30, 2017, I appeared on Bloomberg Radio – broadcast worldwide on Sirius XM Radio – to help alleviate some of the confusion.
Once again President Trump has made US immigration policy front page international news this past week with his remarks about not wanting immigrants from what he described as “shithole countries”. While the language is shocking, the sentiment is one that has held a long place historically in US immigration policy. The colors of skin, or countries may change with the times, but the US has never really been the open-armed “land of the free” it likes to claim to be.
People often contact us saying that they have an “easy” immigration case, but they have just run into a snag. Now they need help. Things get stressful when items such as work permits, travel documents, green cards and citizenship papers are not...
We are on the eve of the swearing in of our new President Elect, and many immigrants in the United States are wondering what the next four years will have in store for them. Trump’s campaign was filled with numerous infamous sound bites about “Mexican rapists” and “bad hombres” along with a promise to “build the wall” between the US and Mexico (and Canada), and threats of deportation for millions.
So many people think that marriage is an instant ticket to a green card. They breathe a sigh of relief once they are married assuming that they are now safely living in the US. While there are some faster ways to get a green card, simply marrying your US Citizen (or Green Card holder) significant other may not be the answer.
