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 | Feb 7, 2020 | Ida Keir Law, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions, Student Visas, Unlawful Presence/DACA
In the midst of continuing restrictions on international students, there’s some good news! On Feb. 6, 2020, a federal judge in North Carolina issued a permanent order in favor of international students facing “unlawful presence” issues that applies...
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 | May 16, 2019 | Ida Keir Law, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions, Student Visas, Unlawful Presence/DACA
On May 3, 2019, a federal judge in North Carolina issued an order in favor of international students. The order temporarily prevents the government’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enforcing a policy memo they issued in 2018 that changed how days of...
by IdaKeir | Oct 2, 2018 | News Archive, Pres. Trump actions, Unlawful Presence/DACA
How do you move thousands of detained children to avoid them trying to run away? The U.S. government is doing it late at night and with very little notice. The separation of parents and children at the southern border is no longer headline news every day. But the...
by IdaKeir | Aug 23, 2018 | Employment & Nurses, Ida Keir Law, News Archive, Pres. Trump actions, Student Visas, Unlawful Presence/DACA
The U.S. government made changes to its unlawful presence policy on August 9, 2018 which puts foreign students at risk of being barred from re-entering the U.S. for 3 or 10 years if they leave the country. Some immigration updates are relatively easy to explain to the...