Nelson A. Castillo The announcement that the new penalty law regulations will go into effect on March 4, 2013 is cause for much optimism for immigrants who want to legalize their status in the United States. But the announcement also raised many questions and doubts. This afternoon, I was interviewed by MundoFox Channel 22 in Los Angeles ... Read more
This morning I reported that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) finally released the final regulations to implement the modification of the process for obtaining a waiver under the "punishment law". Tomorrow it will be officially published in the Federal Register, and the new procedures will go into effect on March 4 ... Read more
Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced final regulations to modify the process for obtaining a waiver under the "law of punishment". This change will help thousands of U.S. citizens who have undocumented immediate family members - parents, spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21 - when they apply for residency ... Read more
Happy New Year! This week in my column in La Opinión I offer some recommendations for immigration resolutions for 2013. The end of the year gives us the opportunity to reflect on past accomplishments and make resolutions to improve our lives in the new year. Today I propose that you also make the following immigration resolutions in the ... Read more
President Barack Obama's administration deported 409,849 people during fiscal year 2012 (October 2011 - September 2012), almost 13,000 more than the previous year. This, despite announcing in mid-2011 that it would suspend the deportation of 300,000 undocumented immigrants in the process of being removed from the country while they conducted an evaluation of each ... Read more
Effective February 1, 2013, USCIS will charge a new fee of $$165 for processing permanent resident visas filed abroad. According to USCIS, the new "immigrant fee" is to recoup the costs of processing immigrant visas after ... Read more
Today, December 18, is International Migrants Day. The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) established this commemorative day in 2000, in recognition of the large number of people around the world who leave their countries due to poverty, war or human rights violations. Currently, it is estimated that ... Read more
More than 360,000 requests for deferred action have been submitted since USCIS opened the deadline to initiate the process. According to figures provided today by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), this government agency has received a total of 367,903 requests between August 15 and December 13, 2012. Of that number, USCIS has ... Read more
As of today, December 5, 2012, applicants from Mexico can no longer file Form I-601, Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility, at the local U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office in Ciudad Juarez. They are also unable to file associated forms ... Read more
This week, in my column in La Opinión, I give some very important recommendations for every undocumented person living in the U.S. This is my column: It is very encouraging that after the presidential election, which demonstrated the political power of Latinos in this country, there is again talk of a needed immigration reform that will solve the ... Read more
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