Surely if a child is adopted by American parents she would herself become an American citizen, right? The answer is not necessarily. Tara Ammons Cohen is a wife and mother of three children from Washington State who is being threatened with deportation back to Mexico even though she was adopted by American parents when she...Read More
Attorney Steve Goldstein lectured at a seminar on immigration law in Philadelphia presented by Law Review CLE. The course was presented as part of the required continuing legal education credits that attorneys need to remain in good standing with their respective State bar associations. Mr. Goldstein covered grounds of inadmissibility, removal proceedings , bond re-determination...Read More
After the long-awaited Congressional vote on the DREAM Act, and despite its passage in the House of Representatives, the Senate Democrats decided to put this bill on hold in stead of trying to break the expected Republican filibuster on Thursday. Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, forced a vote to call off the attempt presumably...Read More
The DREAM Act, a bill that would give a path to legalization for many undocumented young people, narrowly passed in the House of Representatives yesterday evening by a 216-198 vote. The bill’s passage was greatly applauded by President Barack Obama, who has called it “an important step” toward comprehensive immigration reform. But this by no...Read More
Today, the first of December, is a day that will go down in history. It marks the first World AIDS day in which HIV-positive non-citizens are no longer banned from entering the U.S. or barred from becoming a lawful permanent resident . Last January, the HIV ban on travel and immigration, which had been in...Read More
To make our law firm more accessible, we have developed an iPhone application. Click here to download the application. The application has many of the features of our existing website, including our attorney profiles, informative videos , and a manner in which to contact our firm. We will be constantly updating the application to provide more...Read More
The American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) filed an administrative complaint with the United States Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) for having arrested and detained two U.S. Citizens who live in the Denver area, along with several dozen other Spanish-speaking legal residents as they were on a bus on their way to a convention in Omaha,...Read More
Senator Harry Reid has promised that the Senate will vote this year on enactment of the DREAM Act, which would give thousands of undocumented immigrants who wish to pursue higher education a chance to do so. In the process, these immigrants will begin a path to legal residency. With the continuing disappointment surrounding the failure...Read More
Effective November 18, 2010, the Orlando Immigration Court will be located at 3535 Lawton Road, Suite 200 Orlando, Florida 38203. The phone number is 407-648-6565. Our Miami Immigration Lawyersrepresent clients in the Orlando Immigration Court.Read More
As immigration attorneys , sometimes we have to realize that a little publicity is a bad thing. In today’s Miami Herald, there is a report about the number of Miami immigration court cases dismissed by Immigration Judges. What was actually happening is that the Miami Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) Office of Chief Counsel had adopted...Read More
