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This blog post includes the recording of my third show, which originally aired Friday May 27, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980am at 2:30pm (California time) every Friday ...

Oftentimes foreign nationals seeking an attorney to assist in preparing and filing an asylum application worry about the perceived lack of evidence to support their claims. What such foreign nationals ...

For one to establish eligibility for asylum in the U.S. from their home country, a link, also referred to as a nexus, must be established between a protected ground, i.e., race, religion, national ...

On June 18, 2020, the United States Supreme Court decided to stop the United States Government from repealing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA"). It was a narrow decision, allowing the ...

On January 9, 2018, a San Francisco-based federal judge in the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") to resume the ...

Once again it has been far too long since my last blog post. However, I've been working instead on building a published-case database going back to the beginning of 2015. The database may be found ...

This blog post includes the recording of my thirteenth show, which originally aired Friday, August 5, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30 pm (California time) every ...

There have not been many immigration-related published decisions recently, but that has not kept the topic of Immigration Law out of the news. The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. Department of ...

An article in today's New York Times shows that despite the talk of a more compassionate deportation policy the U.S. government's enforcement of the Immigration Laws has focused more on removing from ...

This blog post includes the recording of my fourteenth show, which originally aired Friday, August 12, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30 pm (California time) ...

Happy New Year to everyone! I want to bring to people's attention the February 2019 Visa Bulletin released by the U.S. Department of State on January 11, 2019. Compared to the January 2019 Visa ...

This blog post includes the recording of my twenty-first show, which originally aired Friday September 30, 2016. It was my final show of the season. This twenty-first podcast focuses on the October ...

This blog post includes the recording of my fourteenth show, which originally aired Friday, August 12, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30 pm (California time) ...

Immigration-Reform Law Updates It's been a while since I've last posted, and that's because I wanted to see what the new Presidential Administration would do after getting into office. I still believe ...

The results are in, and barring an aberration or an absurdity the former United States Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will be the forty-sixth president of the United States with United States ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") announced a final rule that tweaks fees for certain immigration and naturalization benefit requests in order to ensure U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...

This post includes the recording of my twenty-fourth show, which originally aired Thursday January 24, 2019. This twenty-fourth podcast focuses on the common question(s) I receive regarding the three ...

I want to use this blog, and the radio show, to address several questions that I commonly receive from both clients and those who consult with me. One of those common questions is how long will the ...

This blog post includes the recording of my twentieth show, which originally aired Friday September 23, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30pm (California time) ...

I oftentimes receive inquiries telling me that someone's visa status is about to expire and an application for extension of her/his authorized time in the U.S. is necessary immediately. When having ...

This blog post includes the recording of my eighteenth show, which originally aired Friday, September 9, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30 pm (California time) ...

I oftentimes receive inquiries telling me that someone's visa status is about to expire and an application for extension of her/his authorized time in the U.S. is necessary immediately. When having ...

This is my thirty-fifth show (the fifth in a series), which originally aired Thursday April 23, 2020, and it discusses the actual terms of, the likely impact of, and some but not all of the exceptions ...

This is my thirty-third show (the third in a series), which originally aired Saturday April 11, 2020, and it discusses what nonimmigrants, i.e., foreign nationals lawfully in the U.S. on a temporary ...

This is my thirty-second show, which originally aired Saturday April 4, 2020, and it discusses the operations of various federal immigration-related components, such as U.S. Citizenship and ...

This blog post includes the recording of my fifteenth show, which originally aired Friday, August 19, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30 pm (California time) every ...

Many people in the U.S. are tired of the debate on Comprehensive Immigration Reform ("CIR") and simply want to have some finality on whether or not it is going to pass. Unfortunately, such a ...

This blog post includes the recording of my sixteenth show, which originally aired Friday, August 26, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30pm (California time) every ...

This blog post includes the recording of my third show, which originally aired Friday May 27, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980am at 2:30pm (California time) every Friday ...

This blog post includes the recording of my second show, which originally aired Friday May 20, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30pm (California time) every Friday ...

This recording of my twenty-seventh show, which originally aired Friday, February 22, 2019, and provides responses to the normal queries I receive regarding attempting to obtain a Green Card through ...

This blog post includes the recording of my ninth show, which originally aired Friday, July 8, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30 pm (California time) every Friday ...

This blog post includes the recording of my fifth show, which originally aired Friday June 10, 2016. If you want to hear the shows live, then tune in to 980AM at 2:30pm (California time) every Friday ...