Background: An Affidavit of Support, Form I-864, is required for most family-sponsored immigrants and some employment-based immigrants. The Affidavit of Support creates a contract between the sponsor and the U.S. government, whereby, the sponsor agrees to provide financial support to the immigrant and that the sponsor would be liable for any reimbursement obligation incurred as […]
WHO IS AFFECTED BY THIS PROCLAMATION? A major category of people who are affected by this are US Citizens who are petitioning for their parents, siblings, or adult children to enter the US as a Permanent Resident (Green Card). If you are already inside the United States and your US Citizen family member is petitioning […]
Your Rights as an Employee If you are still working, your employer is legally required to provide you with a safe workplace, including protections from COVID-19. Such as: Increase physical distancing at work site; Creating physical barriers; Regular cleaning of all surfaces, equipment and tools; Provide workers and others with a place to wash hands […]
Over the last few weeks many of our clients and community members have been looking for answers to this question. Paschal Nwokocha & Chukwu Law Office is here to help you navigate through these trying times. There are some Federal and Local initiatives that are providing financial assistance to those affected by COVID19. Below, you […]
Proposed Asylum Rules An Attack on the Most Vulnerable Asylum Seekers A recent proposed change to our asylum rules threatens to undo protections to some of our most vulnerable migrants: asylum seekers. Asylum has been a major part of our country’s humanitarian immigration mission since World War II. The modern asylum system emerged out of […]
The story seemed like something out of fiction: Our client married her current husband but the couple broke up, while never officially divorcing. Our client’s spouse then remarried and filed for visa at the consulate. He claimed that our client, his ex-wife, had died and presented a fake death certificate, in order to immigrate to […]
The final rule also creates facts that could be categorized as negative or positive factors, heavily weighted negative and heavily weighted positive factors with the implication being that heavily weighted positive or heavily weighted negative factor have greater effect on alien application for extension of stay or adjustment of status. DHS, however, would consider the […]
The US H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ college graduate level workers in “specialty occupations.” Currently, the H-1B visa has an annual numerical limit “cap” of 65,000 visas each fiscal year, with additional 20,000 for beneficiaries with a U.S. master’s degree or higher. However, starting April 1, 2019 DHS […]
“Those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana Recent Presidential Executive Order that would make it more difficult for Central Americans seeking asylum to gain entry at the U.S.-Mexico border show that the Trump Administration’s stance towards Immigration has not waivered, despite numerous pleas that these policies are inhumane. Rhetoric depicting […]
In continuation of its unrelenting assault on migration of “different” immigrants into the United States, President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on September 22, 2018, announced proposed rule that would make significant changes to “public charge” policies. The rule, set to be officially published on October 10, 2018, will broaden the interpretation of that […]