Due to the recent surge in cases of COVID-19 in the Republic of India, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that the U.S. should be protected from travelers from that area. COVID-19 Surge in the Republic of India According to the CDC, the Republic of India is experiencing a widespread and…
On April 23, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it has rescinded two delegation orders which gave certain Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials the power to impose civil financial penalties for noncitizens who fail to depart the U.S. What Were the Fees DHS Is Ending? According to INA §240B(d), if a…
Family Immigration Dedicated Immigration AttorneysTrusted AdvocatesThis is Shihab Burke, LLC, Attorneys At Law Table of Contents Family-Based Visa Attorneys The U.S. immigration system allows U.S. Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) to sponsor close relatives so that they may immigrate to the United States. A family-based immigrant visa application will allow your family members to…
Fiancé(e) Visa Lawyer Family Immigration Table of Contents K-1 Visa in General K-1 Visa in General The K-1 Visa, often referred to as a Fiancé visa, allows a foreign fiancé of a U.S. citizen to come to the United States as long as both the U.S. citizen and foreign fiancé intend and in fact do…
Spouses Family Immigration Table of Contents Spouse Visa Lawyers – Petition for Foreign National Spouse The U.S. immigration system allows U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (LPR, also known as green card holders) to apply for immigrant visas so their foreign national spouses can permanently immigrate to the United States. Regardless of whether you are…
The hard truth is that the U.S. does not have a temporary work visa category specifically geared toward the needs of international entrepreneurs and start-up founders looking to come to the U.S. How can this be? You may wonder how among all the various work visas the U.S. does offer, there is not one to…
On Monday, April 12, 2021 a federal judge refused to dismiss “a civil rights class action against Social Finance Inc. (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending platform, that allegedly denied loans to immigrants who were legally residing in the United States when they applied for credit.” The lawsuit was filed in May 2020 in the…
COVID-19 has made traveling outside the U.S. a bit more complicated. In addition to the specific rules about the time a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) can be outside the U.S., the pandemic has made staying within those guidelines trickier. Lockdown orders and cancelled flights are just some of the ways your short trip outside the…
DACA, also known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is a program that has received much attention for almost a decade. Yes, DACA has been around for close to ten years! Yet the program is currently in limbo and is under scrutiny, leading Dreamers to wonder what will happen to them if they do…
President Biden is being urged to include the Citizenship for Essential Workers Act in his two-part infrastructure improvement plan. Specifically, Democrats are asking Biden to include this immigration legislation in the second part of his plan, called the American Families Plan, which focuses on education and childcare. Pathway to Citizenship via LPR If included and…