Issue: Viviana*, a Peruvian national, came to our office after receiving a letter from USCIS denying her residency application based upon her marriage to a U.S. citizen. Viviana informed our office that she had not appeared at her second residency interview because she had separated from her husband and her marriage was over. Soon after, [...]
Congratulations to Italian Tennis Player, Stefano Ianni, for the recent approval of his P-1 visa as a Professional Tennis Player. Issue: Ianni has been traveling back and forth between the U.S. and Italy on a B-1 visitor’s visa, competing in ITF Futures tennis matches on the Men’s Professional Circuit in the U.S. In the beginning [...]
Issue On November 15, 2010 we were contacted by a long-time corporate client who wished to employ an Italian national in a cap subject H-1B position. The company had recently established a new women’s luxury fashion jewelry and accessories brand and had selected the beneficiary to head their operations. With this petition we faced several [...]
We are please to report that the Department of Labor has greatly improved processing times for some applications for alien labor certification. We recently filed an application on behalf of a company seeking to hire and operations research analyst. The application was approved in less than 6 weeks. Past applications have been lingering for years. [...]
In the month of September we successfully defended two lawful permanent residents who were in removal proceedings because of old criminal convictions. Because both of the cases involved pre-1996 criminal convictions, our clients were able to apply for relief pursuant to former section 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, otherwise known as a 212(c) [...]
In August, we successfully defended two lawful permanent residents who were in removal proceedings because of old criminal convictions. Because both of the cases involved pre-1996 convictions, our clients were able to apply for relief pursuant to former section 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Winning a 212(c) waiver case requires convincing an immigration [...]
In 2009 an officer at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in Orlando denied our client’s application for permanent residency claiming that he made false claims to US citizenship. Specifically, the officer concluded that our client admitted to claiming U.S. citizenship when he applied for his social security number, Florida driver’s license, plumbing license, [...]
An immigration judge in Miami, Florida has granted political asylum to another one of our clients from Burma. This client is a member of the Zomi tribe which belongs to the Chin ethnic minority. He is a practicing Christian and member of the Baptist church. In 1997, he dedicated his life to the ministry and [...]
We are pleased to report that the immigration service has approved an extraordinary ability petition we filed for our client Tito Perez who is one of the most celebrated tennis coaches in Bolivia. Perez started his coaching career as the Director of one of Bolivia’s elite tennis schools, the Cochabamba Tennis Club. He ascended the [...]
An immigration judge in Miami granted political asylum to one of our clients who was a student activist in Venezuela. Our client was a member of the political party Primero Justicia. She participated in numerous demonstrations and marches against the government of Hugo Chavez and helped collect signatures needed to activate the presidential recall provision [...]