This week in my "Immigration Consultation" column published online by several impreMedia publications, including LaOpinión.com, I continue to explain what is the provisional waiver of punishment law and how to apply for this new immigration benefit. Here is the column: The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) yesterday, March 4, 2013, began to ... Read more
This week in my column "Consulta Migratoria" in LaOpinion.com I explain what the provisional waiver of the punishment law is and how the application process works. Here is the column: The process to apply for the Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver will go into effect on March 4, 2013. ... Read more
Starting today, I am once again writing a weekly column that will appear every Tuesday on LaOpinion.com and in other impreMedia digital publications around the country. This week's topic is how to prepare for immigration reform. It is important to keep in mind that reform is not going to happen right away, ... Read more
A bipartisan group of senators presented a proposal for immigration reform. President Obama came out to defend the need for reform, insisting that there must be a plan in place within the next 6 months. Why is it possible to have immigration reform in 2013 when it was not achieved ... Read more
This past Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives held the first hearing to begin the dialogue on what an immigration reform must include in order to be effective. Now, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that it will meet next Wednesday, February 13 at 9:30 am, for the same purpose. ... Read more
The U.S. House of Representatives today is holding the first in a series of hearings to discuss how to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. Immigration law experts will be testifying on the need to fix our immigration system. They will talk about how they can improve the immigration system and ... Read more
A group of Democratic and Republican U.S. Senators today announced their plan for immigration reform in the United States. The bipartisan group, which includes Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), John McCain (R-AZ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) proposes to fix ... Read more
This week, I dedicated my column "Consulta Migratoria" in La Opinión, to answer readers' questions about the punishment law. This is the column: After almost 9 months of waiting, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security finally announced that on March 4, 2013, the modification to the immigration process will go into effect. 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
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