The Los Angeles times reports that President Obama intends to push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform early 2013.
At Paschal Nwokocha Law Offices, we continue to represent businesses and individuals in various aspects of their immigration matters with stellar results. Recently, we had a very interesting case with successful result. We were retained by a local high-end restaurant that was a target of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audit. ICE had cited the […]
In the past few months, we have had more than 20 U visa success stories. The cases range from complex cases involving applicants with final removal orders from the Immigration Court to those whose qualifying incident involved Ex-Parte No Contact Orders and Order for Protection. For the clients, this has been life-changing event for themselves, […]
The following story caught our attention this morning from the Wall Street Journal. Rich foreigners who buy high-end homes would get status in the United States if the recent legislation introduced in Congress passes. It is part of an effort to spur the depressed real estate market. Of particular note is that the visa would […]
Today, Governor Andrew Cuomo took a very courageous move to suspend the state’s participation in the Secure Community Program. If other states can follow through on similar move, maybe Congress and the white house can focus enough attention to the dire immigration problems we face in this country, and not make immigrants scapegoat. We reproduce […]
For a while, there has been little or no discussion about CIR–Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Every one was focused on Health Care Debate, which is a very important issue that the Obama administration has decided to tackle. Today, however, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, re-introduced CIR to the American people. She delivered an important […]
On October 28, 2009, President Obama signed legislation extending three critical immigration bills. In our last posting on these pages, we discussed these bills and how they impact our clients. This is great news to the immigrant communities and the clients of our firm. For religious workers, this means that we can continue filing the […]
On October 20, 2009 the United States senate, by a vote of 79-19, approved the conference report of the Department of Homeland Security bill. The U.S. House had approved the same on October 15, 2009 by a vote of 307-114. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama who will sign it, thereby extending a […]
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After a couple of false starts, the president today has launched the immigration reform debate. He promised to immediately begin negotiations to craft CIR with the goal of passing legislation this year or early next year. This official statement from the White House is a good start to the conversation. This has been the much […]