Currently, immigrant and K visa applicants submit their I-601 waivers at or shortly after their consular interview abroad. After submitting their waivers, applicants have to remain abroad, usually while being separated from their families in the United States, until a decision has been made and their waiver has been granted. The proposed provisional unlawful presence...Read More

At approximately 9:40 a.m. on May 8th, 2012, Pozo Goldstein, LLP’s Maggie Arias and esteemed co-counsel, Benjamin Waxman, appeared before the seven justices at the Florida Supreme Court. Docket #SC11-1281, Leduan Diaz v. State of Florida considered the retroactive application of the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Padilla vs. Kentucky. Mr. Diaz alleged his...Read More

The hearing on the Arizona immigration law is already underway with the Supreme Court hearing arguments on the most controversial provisions and already there is speculation that the justices may be leaning towards Arizona’s side, but it is too soon to tell. Be that as it may, activists nationwide are revamping their protest efforts to...Read More

United States Attorney General Eric Holder has had to use his powers under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to intervene with prohibitive new voting laws in Texas that would have required voters to show government-issued identification at the polls during this coming election. The Justice Department ruled that Texas law would disproportionately deny Hispanics...Read More

The Obama administration’s top immigration official has said he wants to keep more foreign-born high-tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. but that to make it happen he needs those entrepreneurs to turn their creativity to immigration itself. Members in Silicon Valley’s startup community met with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas for what...Read More

Even though the DREAM Act has not passed, individual states are taking legislative measures to make it more affordable for their undocumented youth to go to college. Last week, the Colorado Senate came one step closer to approving SB 15, called ASSET, a tuition equity bill that would provide a standard tuition rate to qualifying...Read More

The original sponsors of Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant bill HB56 have acknowledged that the law is deeply flawed and are now drafting a new bill to modify some of the harsher provisions. Yet this reaction comes only as a response to the economic woes that the bill has caused as a consequence. However, the restrictionists at...Read More

Republican elected officials, including Florida’s own U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, are working on a “conservative Republican alternative” to the DREAM Act, in an effort to reach out to Latino voters before the November presidential election. The Congressional newspaper The Hill reported earlier this week that Rubio had no “specifics to announce yet” about his alternative...Read More

The U.S.-Mexico border has for a long time been the center of heated controversy. Now, a human rights group has found that there are a plethora of human-rights abuses that have occurred there, from the needless deaths of border-crossers to inhumane conditions in immigration detention to the racial profiling of entire Latino and indigenous communities....Read More

Immigration officials have granted a reprieve to a gay man from South Africa so that he can stay in Long Island and care for his spouse who is very sick. His name is Tim Smulian, 65, and was nearly forced to leave his seriously ill partner alone in the U.S. for six months because of...Read More