by IdaKeir | Jul 9, 2020 | Asylum/Refugees, COVID-19, Employment & Nurses, Family Visas, Ida Keir Law, Immigration from Philippines, J Visas, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions, Student Visas, Unlawful Presence/DACA
The government continues to use the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to further ban students, relatives, employees and asylees from legal status in the U.S. The restrictions, in combination with worldwide travel restrictions and the closures of U.S. embassies abroad...
by IdaKeir | Jan 10, 2020 | Asylum/Refugees, Ida Keir Law, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions
The US government is adding new asylum restrictions to make it virtually impossible to be granted asylum by the US. On the southern border the government is sending applicants back to dangerous and squalid conditions in Mexico to wait months for their hearings. The...
by IdaKeir | Dec 31, 2019 | Asylum/Refugees, Citizenship, Ida Keir Law, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions, Student Visas, Unlawful Presence/DACA
Happy 2020! It’s a new year and a new decade, but some things haven’t changed. Combining driving with alcohol and drugs is dangerous, and can also get U.S. immigrants into plenty of legal trouble. As we’ve advised before, don’t drive while drunk or impaired....
by IdaKeir | Oct 22, 2019 | Asylum/Refugees, Ida Keir Law, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions
I have helped several kind, hard-working Syrian Kurdish refugees reunite with their familiy members who were abroad, and go on to get their green cards in the U.S. In a few years they can apply for U.S. citizenship. But all have relatives and friends abroad, many of...
by IdaKeir | Oct 8, 2018 | Asylum/Refugees, Ida Keir Law, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions
On Oct. 3, California Judge Edward Chen stopped the government from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Sudan, El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua. This is a preliminary (temporary) injunction or order, not a permanent one. But it indicates this...
by IdaKeir | Oct 2, 2018 | Asylum/Refugees, Family Visas, Immigration from Philippines, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions
In September the U.S. government announced an important proposal to change the financial requirements to become a permanent resident, i.e. get a green card. This change will define the “public charge of inadmissibility,” i.e. when the government can deny...