Ever since the results of the recent presidential election, thousands of immigrants across the United States have been living in fear. The new president’s campaign for office was built on a promise of mass deportations, using some kind of unspecified deportation force, and a wall stretched along the southern border which Mexico would somehow be...Read More

It has been almost two weeks since Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States, and in that short time he has already issued more than a dozen executive orders, making sweeping changes to everything from federal employment to oil pipelines to immigration. On this blog, we take a look at the immigration...Read More

El 27 de diciembre del 2016, la Oficina Administrativa de Apelaciones (AAO) del Servicio de Inmigración y Ciudadanía de EE.UU. (USCIS) emitió una decisión importantísima, Matter of Dhanasar, 26 I&N Dic. 884 (AAO 2016), la cual modifica el estándar de Exoneración por Interés Nacional (NIW) que afecta a ciertas peticiones de residencia permanente en los...Read More

In 1995, the Cuban Adjustment Act was revised after President Clinton’s negotiations with the Cuban government. In its previous interpretation, any people who were intercepted in U.S. waters off the coast of Florida would be allowed to remain in the U.S. After this negotiation, people intercepted on the water would be sent home, but those...Read More