While working with several family lawyers in Houston recently, it occurs to me that it is always a good time to remind citizens of Pakistan and other “Islamic” countries, that the Islamic divorce proceeding referred to as the “Talak” or sometimes as triple Talak is not recognized generally in the US as a valid divorce.[…]
There have been a number of reported cases recently in which foreign nationals have applied for a mortgage to purchase a home and indicated on the loan application that they are U.S. citizens. Unfortunately, even permanent residents, who have the same rights as citizens to apply for these loans, have made the same mistake. Obviously,[…]
Over the past several months there have been numerous reports of change of status (COS) and adjustment of status (AOS) cases being denied because the applicant had purchased an airline ticket for travel outside the U.S. What is happening is the Immigration Service now has access to all airline tickets purchased for flights outside the[…]
For the past several years the EB-5 Regional Center program has relied on the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for the methodology required by the Immigration Service to prove the Regional Center will create sufficient indirect jobs. However, in 2013 the BEA announced its intention to change its methodology which caused panic in EB-5 circles. […]
The State Department’s global database for issuing travel documents has crashed, resulting in major delays for potentially millions of people around the world waiting for U.S. passports and visas, officials said Wednesday. For the complete ABC News article CLICK HERE.
Almost all of the children currently being held in custody along the Texas border are from Central America. This places them in a special legal category which is discussed below. The important thing to understand about this extremely complicated situation is that a law passed by Congress during the Bush administration in 2008 requires the[…]
Adjustment of status is the process where a foreign national will adjust his or her status from a non-immigrant to an immigrant. It differs from obtaining an immigrant visa at a U.S. Consulate in that the entire process occurs in the U.S. Although adjustment of status is one of the most complicated areas of U.S.[…]