- Jan 20, 2018
- 2 min
Immigration Attorneys Protest US Resources Caught Up in Complexity
The Hartford Courant recently published a piece about the potential deportation of an army veteran which speaks to the American sense of outrage on more than one level. For starters, while not enrolled in it, Mark Reid fits the profile of the target population of Obama’s Deferred Dream Act to a T. Brought by his parents to the US as a minor, Reid has fought in the armed services for others to enjoy the freedoms now being denied to him. The good news is a federal judge ruled t
- Jan 18, 2018
- 2 min
Immigration Attorneys Talk About Legal Advice for Immigrants Found Here: Where the Heart is
No, it’s not your home (though that’s how the saying goes). It’s with a group of nuns associated with the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a group which has been doing community outreach for more than one hundred years. Five years ago, however, the group expanded its services to provide a range of legal immigration services for free, according to this article by the Catholic reporter online. While not an immigration law firm per se, the religious group does have signifi
- Jan 18, 2018
- 1 min
Family Law
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- Jan 16, 2018
- 2 min
Immigration Attorneys Concerned About Only Seven Minutes in Immigration Court for Clients
While political battles rage back and forth on Capitol Hill and congressman and members of the US Senate debate the relative merits of amnesty or anathema of citizenship; while economists and political scientists hurl figures into the press rolls comparing the variances in potential job growth, gross domestic product expansion, and increasing federal revenues between what “legal status” versus citizenship of 11 million undocumented immigrants will bring to the US; and while a
- Jan 14, 2018
- 2 min
Immigration Attorneys in Utah Warn that Immigration Scams are on the Rise
Immigrants living in Utah may find themselves faced with increasingly aggressive scammers as immigration reform continues to be a topic of national interest, according to this article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Immigration attorneys in Utah caution residents to recognize the signs of scammers and to report fraudulent activity, with representatives of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) making reassuring statements that victims of immigration scams won’t be deport
- Jan 12, 2018
- 1 min
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- Jan 10, 2018
- 2 min
Immigration-Lawyers-in-Utah-Get-Ready-things-are-changing
It can be pretty confusing, as the term notario in Mexico and many Latin American countries often refers to lawyers, and in places like San Antonio, Texas, immigration attorneys are in high demand. But according to this article in AZCentral.com, businesses operating with the term notario in their name are handing out legal immigration advice fraudulently, and to the detriment of individuals’ and families’ immigration cases across the U.S. How are they getting away with it? Im
- Jan 10, 2018
- 2 min
Immigration Lawyers in Utah, Get Ready: Things are Changing
Immigration reform has been seeing ups and downs, forwards and backwards in quantities that could almost be considered bulk recently, and not least because Obama is using executive power to wield changes on immigration law. Obama didn’t wait for Congress to sort out whether they planned to support millions of immigrants stay in the U.S. legally; instead Obama rewrote the law himself by executive power. Immigration Lawyers in Salt Lake City will notice that the president halte
- Jan 10, 2018
- 4 min
St. George Legal News for January 2017
St. George native Jeremy Johnson announced earlier this month that, after firing his attorneys, he now plans to represent himself in a federal trial, which is a wise move for someone looking to spend the rest of eternity behind bars. Tired of the daily grind are we, Johnson? Ready to kick your feet up and enjoy gruel three meals a day? Wishing you could declutter and minimize your wardrobe down to one single jumpsuit? These are the only possible explanations for this decisio
- Jan 8, 2018
- 2 min
A New Script: Immigration Lawyers to be held accountable for “correct” legal advice
Decisions made in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) could affect the way that immigration lawyers in the state represent their clients, as a local Boston radio station reports. A recent case in which a lawful permanent resident of the state was picked up for driving with a suspended license and flagged for deportation is being reexamined under the argument that the defendant didn’t get sound legal counsel in his prior guilty plea for charges related to cocaine po