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• 2012-01-23 - Article - "Updates on Immigration: PERM Stats, New Mexico Driver's Licenses, and USCIS Notice of Intent" as published in the Immigration Daily on January 23, 2012
• 2012-01-07 - Article - U.S.C.I.S. Issues Notice of Intent to Issue Rule to Allow EWI Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens to File and Have I-601 Waiver Applications Adjudicated in U.S. Before They Decide to Interview Overseas for Immigration. (English)
• 2012-01-04 - Article "Exiting the Year on H.R. 3012, K-1/K-2 Issues, and H-1B Marketing Manager/Marketing Research Positions Contretemps." as published in the Immigration Daily on January 3, 2012
• 2011-12-29 - Article - Exiting the Year on H.R. 3012, K-1/K-2 Issues, and H-1B Marketing Manager/Marketing Research Positions Contretemps. (English)
• 2011-11-21 - Alan Lee's Nonprecedent AAO Victory Finding Extreme Hardship and Granting Fraud Waiver to Wife of USC, as Digested and Published in Interpreter Releases, Vol.88, No. 42 (October 31, 2011), the leading weekly immigration law periodical.
• 2011-11-18 - Article "Notes On Hot Topics In Immigration Law" as published in the Immigration Daily on November 14, 2011
• 2011-11-11 - Article - Prosecutorial Discretion, Deferred Action, K-1 Initial Evidence, Consular Administrative Delays, 12/21/00 Physical Presence Not Required for CSPA Derivatives, Timely Retraction of Misrepresentation, Self-Sponsorship Where Law Requires Substitute Financial Sponsor, Etc. (English)
• 2011-10-27 - Article - U.S.C.I.S. EB-5 Quarterly Stakeholder Engagement Yields Some Answers to EB-5 Processing. (English)
• 2011-10-11 - Alan Lee's Nonprecedent BIA Case Removing Frivolous Political Asylum Finding Against Derivative's Child, as Digested in Interpreter Releases, Vol.88, No. 36 (September 19, 2011), the leading weekly immigration law periodical.
• 2011-09-15 - Article - "Motions To Reopen Requiring Exercise Of Prosecutorial Discretion - Should They Be Treated More Kindly Under Administration's New Policy? Filing I-130 Petitions Overseas With U.S.C.I.S. Now; Entry Without Inspection (EWI) With Inability To Immigrate May Have Solution " as published in the Immigration Daily on September 12, 2011
• 2011-09-01 - Article - "Administration Puts Secure Communities Imbroglio To Rest With Prosecutorial Discretion Applicability To 300,000 National Immigration Court Caseload " as published in the Immigration Daily on August 31, 2011
• 2011-08-17 - Article - "September Visa Bulletin Shows Significant Gains In F-2A And EW-3 Categories And Raises Questions Concerning Prior Retrogression Dates" as published in the Immigration Daily on August 16, 2011
• 2011-06-21 - Article - "ICE Halfway Solution Not The Answer To Secure Communities Problem " as published in the Immigration Daily on June 20, 2011
• 2011-06-08 - Alan Lee Speaks on Immigration to United Chinese Association of Brooklyn on May 15th Concerning L-1A Intracompany Transfers, EB-5 Investment, and PERM Labor Certifications. (Part 3) (English)
• 2011-06-06 - Alan Lee Speaks on Immigration to United Chinese Association of Brooklyn on May 15th Concerning L-1A Intracompany Transfers, EB-5 Investment, and PERM Labor Certifications. (Part 2) (English)
• 2011-06-03 - Alan Lee Speaks on Immigration to United Chinese Association of Brooklyn on May 15th Concerning L-1A Intracompany Transfers, EB-5 Investment, and PERM Labor Certifications. (Part 1) (English)
• 2011-05-15 - Article - "Ten Interesting Tidbits to Help or Let You Understand Your Immigration Case "as published in World Journal Weekly on May 15, 2011 (English)
• 2011-04-25 - Article - "Some Of The More Recent Department Of Homeland Security Immigration Related Programs, Systems, Added Requirements And Internet Inspections With Which You Should Be Familiar " as published in the Immigration Daily on March 31, 2011
• 2011-03-20 - Article -Important Developments in Labor Certification Applications, Part III (English)
• 2011-03-13 - Article -Important Developments in Labor Certification Applications, Part II (English)
• 2011-03-06 - Mr. Lee's Article -Important Developments in Labor Certification Applications, Part I (English)
• 2011-01-30 - Article -The Renewed Hope for Immigration Legislation in 2011. (English)
• 2010-11-22 - Mr. Lee's Article - "New I-129 Form; New U.S.C.I.S. Fees; Republicans Plans and DREAM Act " as published in the Immigration Daily on November 22, 2010
• 2010-10-06 - Article - "I-130 Petitions For Alien Spouses, PERM Processing Times, H-1B Cap Numbers, And Prioritization Of H-1B Cap Case Adjudications" as published in the Immigration Daily on October 6, 2010 (English)
• 2010-09-02 - Article - "Apparent Public Misunderstanding Of The Scope Of USICE Memorandum On Expediting Petitions And Applications And Dismissing Removal Proceedings" as published in the Immigration Daily on September 2, 2010 (English)
• 2010-08-23 - Mr. Lee's Article - "Immigration Court On Line 1-800 System To Be Severely Restricted To Users - Negative Ramifications For EOIR And Aliens." as published in the Immigration Daily on August 23, 2010 (English)
• 2010-07-20 - Article - " Visa Bulletin Movement For August 2010 Extremely Positive For Most Countries; EB-2 Cases For China And India Continue Their Leap Forward." as published in the Immigration Daily on July 20, 2010 (English)
• 2010-06-29 - Article - " Stiff Charges To Owners Of Chinese Employment Agencies That Supply And Restaurants Using Their Services to Obtain Undocumented Workers Part of New Obama Enforcement Plan." as published in the Immigration Daily on June 29, 2010 (English)
• 2010-06-21 - Article - "H-1B Count Shows Slowness in Petitions; DOL Releases PERM Processing Times; New Changes In VISA Fees For DOS; Proposed Large Fee Changes By U.S.C.I.S. " as published in the Immigration Daily on June 21, 2010
• 2010-05-16 - Article - "Unpublished I-601 Waiver of Fraud Decision Counts China Family Planning Policy Fears and Country's Poor Healthcare as Important Factors in Approving Case." as published in World Journal on May 16, 2010 (English)
• 2010-05-06 - Mr. Lee's Win at Administrative Appeals Office as Reported in Interpreter Releases, Vol.87, No. 16 (April 19, 2010), " AAO Grants Waiver of Inadmissibility Based on Extreme Hardship to Applicant's LPR Mother". Reprinted by permission of West, a Thomson business. Interpreter Release is the leading weekly immigration law periodical featuring in-depth, comprehensive analysis and authoritative coverage of legislation and regulations, cases, and agency guidance.
• 2010-04-16 - Article - "Recommendations On Positive Immigration Options That The Administration Should Explore." as published in the Immigration Daily on April 16, 2010 (English)
• 2010-03-24 - Article - "Important Changes in Widely Used I-485 Adjustment of Status to Permanent Residence Form and Procedure." as published in the Immigration Daily on March 24, 2010 (English)
• 2010-01-05 - Article - Legalization Is Alive but Has a January 31, 2010 Deadline in Underpublicized "Known to the Government" Settlement" - in Interpreter Releases, Vol.86, No. 47 (December 14, 2009). Reprinted by permission of West, a Thomson business. Interpreter Release is the leading weekly immigration law periodical featuring in-depth, comprehensive analysis and authoritative coverage of legislation and regulations, cases, and agency guidance.
• 2009-09-17 - Article - "U.S.C.I.S. Liberalizes Filing and Amending Rules for I-751 Petitions to Assist in Timely Filing and Deal With Changed Circumstances After Filing." (English) and as published in the Immigration Daily on September 24, 2009
• 2009-08-24 - Article - "U.S.C.I.S. Adjudications on H-1B Petitions Beginning To Smell Like Day-Old Fish" as published in World Journal (English) (Newspaper Clipping)
• 2009-08-18 - Article - "U.S.C.I.S. Adjudications on H-1B Petitions Beginning To Smell Like Day-Old Fish" as published in the Immigration Daily on August 18, 2009 (English)
• 2009-06-04 - Article - "Motions to Reopen Based on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Viable Again" (English) & as published in the Immigration Daily on June 11, 2009
• 2009-04-05 - Article - "Open Season For New H-1Bs" (English) & as published in the Immigration Daily on April 14, 2009
• 2009-04-05 - Article - "An Illegal Immigrant's Tale - From Rags To Stardom" as Published in the World Journal on April 5, 2009 (English) (Newspaper Clipping)
• 2009-03-29 - Mr. Lee Gets USCIS to Make Decision on Merits Where Ex-Attorney's Late Appeal & Later Motion Were Denied for Untimeliness, It Was Reported in World Journal on March 29, 2009 (English) (Newspaper Clipping)
• 2009-03-25 - Mr. Lee's Victory on I-601 Fraud Waiver Application Reported in World Journal On March 21, 2009 (English)
• 2009-03-21 - Article - "An Illegal Immigrant's Tale - From Rags To Stardom" as published in the Immigration Daily on March 23, 2009
• 2009-03-06 - Alan Lee's Prepared Remarks As Panelist In The Immigration Law Weekly PERM Seminar On January 21, 2009 (English)
• 2009-01-18 - Article "Aliens Entering with Fraudulent Documentation and Married with U.S. Citizens or Otherwise Qualifying as Immediate Relatives May Now Adjust Status to Permanent Residence in New York if Hardship Waiver is Granted" as published in World Journal Weekly on January 18, 2009 (English)
• 2009-01-14 - Article "Grading The Various Governmental Bodies For Their Work On Immigration In 2008" (English) and as published in the Immigration Daily on January 12, 2009

• January 29, 2012
  1. What to Put Down on N-400 Naturalization Form When Spouse is Illegal?
  2. Can My Mother Make a Successful B-2 Visitors Visa Application; and If So, How Long Can She Stay?
  3. Can Person Granted Withholding of Removal Obtain Social Security Benefits for Time Before the Withholding Grant; and Can He be Sponsored for Green Card by USC Son?
• January 1, 2012
  1. USC Wants to Apply K-1 Fiancée Visa for First Cousin
  2. Extraordinary Artist is Presenting Second Employment Letter from Same Source for I-485 Application to U.S.C.I.S. $35,000 Less Than the First Letter - Will He Be Denied?
  3. Reader Had Exclusion Proceedings, Section 245 (i) Protection, and Fake U.S. Passport to Falsely Claim U.S. Citizenship, and Wants to Know If He Can Adjust Status to Permanent Residence.
  4.EB-5 Potential Investor Wants to Buy Existing Business From Friend Who is Retiring or Go Through a Regional Investment Center Project - What are the Factors in Making Choice?
• December 11, 2011
  Reader with Immigration Case on Appeal Asks Whether She Can be Sponsored by Brother-in-law or Cousin-in-law; If She Qualifies for the 10-Year Green Card; or Under the New U.S.C.I.S. Policy Memo.
• November 27, 2011
  1. Potential Immigrant Investor Wants Assurance that He Will Finally Get the Green Card and At Least Most of His Money Back. How Can These be Guaranteed?
  2. Reader Asks the Best Way to Handle Final Phase of Immigration to Accommodate Husband Staying in China With a Good Position When She Herself May Be Sent Overseas Soon by Petitioning Company.
• November 20, 2011
  1. I-485 Adjustment of Status Pending, Principal Husband Wants Divorce from Dependent Wife. What Can Wife Do?
  2. Potential EB-5 Investor Worries Over U.S. Residence Requirement for Green Card Holders.
  3. Readers with Deportation Orders and Over 10 Years Residence in U.S. and Nine Year-old USC Child Ask if They Can Apply for 10 Year Green Cards.
  4. 21st Century Meets Old Law as Couple Plans to have Baby Conceived Through Husband's Sperm in China and to Later Bring the Baby to the States.
• November 13, 2011
  U.S.C.I.S. Discussing Possibility of I-601 Filing in the U.S. for Persons Having to Interview at Consulates for Immigrant Visas Could Help Reader who Sneaked Into the U.S. and Married U.S. Citizen.
• October 30, 2011
  1.What are possibilities of EB-13 Immigration for Canadian with L-1 status and small company?
  2.LPR Parents Wish to Give Up Green Cards and Re-immigrate in Eight Years- Viable Plan?
• September 25, 2011
  Reader on Appeal from P-3 Extension Denial Wishes to Apply Under EB-1A Extraordinary Alien Classification and Wants to Know His Chances.
• September 4, 2011
  Experienced Cook Who Just Came to U.S. Wonders How Long to Immigrate Through Restaurant Sponsorship.
• August 28, 2011
  Reader Has Developmentally Slow Child of Three, Been Here 10 Years Plus, and Wants to Know the Chances for 10-Year Green Card.
• August 14, 2011
  1.K-2 Denied at Interview for Adjustment of Status Because of No Relationship with Stepparent and Now Almost 22 Years Old Has a New Chance. 2. I-130 Petitioner Mother Passed Away - Reader Asks How to Save the Case and If Beneficiary's Family Can Obtain Visiting Visas. 3. Asylee Dependent Wonders if Naturalization Denial was Proper and Whether She Can Get Her I-94 Card Back.
• July 31, 2011
  1. What Are the Options for F-1 Student Falling Out of Status?
  2. Can Reader with Final Exclusion Order Apply for 10 Year Green Card or Reopen His Case or Gain Dependent Asylum Status Through Wife?
  3. Can My Sisters in Taiwan and Japan that I Sponsored for Immigration Come to the U.S. During the Waiting Time?
• June 26, 2011
  1. Reader Entered Legally with Mom at Age 14, was Sponsored by Brother and Mother, Now 19 and Going to School - Asks if She Can Apply for a Working Visa.
  2. Sneaked into the U.S. 10 Years Ago, Never Arrested, and Asks About Marriage Green Card and Eligibility for Political Asylum.
  3. Reader's Family Told Truth that Brother Sponsored by Mother Married Before Mother Naturalized and Wants to Know if Case can be Saved.
• June 12, 2011
  1. Good Friend Wants Daughter to Attend High School in San Francisco. How to Do It?
  2. Low Income's Effect on Naturalization and Sponsoring Husband.
  3. The Rules of Cross Chargeability Speeding Up an Employment Based Green Card Case.
• May 29, 2011
  Where Labor Certification of Parent was Applied in 2000 but Child was 22 at Time of Approval, Can She Still Qualify as Child Under CSPA or if not, Can She Still Qualify to Adjust Status Under Section 245(i) Where Another Petition is Later Filed for Her?
• May 15, 2011
  1. EB-5 Investor on a Visitor's Visa Wants to Know How to Stay Legally While Petition is Being Adjudicated
  2. What Are the Best Options for a U.S. Citizen to Bring His Girlfriend to the States?
  3. EB-5 Investment May Allow Son to Immigrate Even Though Only Four Months to Age 21 and Normally Would Age-out.
  4. Widow of U.S. Citizen Relying on His Retirement Pay Wants to Know What Will Happen if She Remarries and Sponsors a Chinese National.
• May 8, 2011
  1. I Just Retired and My Wife and I Want to Immigrate to the States - How Do We Do It?
  2. What to do About the Affidavit of Support Since We Are on Unemployment? Can We Count Unemployment As Part of Income? What Counts Towards Income for Support - Only W-2's?
• April 17, 2011
  1. Can My Friend who Became a Permanent Resident Through Asylum Seven Years Ago and Cannot Pass His Naturalization Test Return to China for a Visit?
  2. How Can I Expedite Our Bonafide Marriage Case Which Was Just Turned Down by the Guangzhou Consulate and Should I Continue my Wife's Daughter's Case?
• March 27, 2011
  1. Can A-10 Card Holder Not Able to Adjust Status be Interviewed Overseas and Return with the Green Card?
  2. Can I Adjust Status to Permanent Residence As the Wife of a U.S. Citizen if I Entered the U.S. Holding C-1 and D-1 Visas? 3. Can Our Daughter Still Immigrate With the Old Priority Date from Petition Filed When She Was Unmarried Once I Become a U.S. Citizen Since She Was Forced by China's Family Planning Policy to Register a Marriage After She Became Pregnant?
• February 20, 2011
  1.Green Card Has No Expiration Date. Is It Still Valid?
  2.I Am U.S. Citizen with a Boyfriend in China. What Are Our Options?
  3.As F-1 Student with Much Working Experience, Please Evaluate My Options for Immigration Through Work.
• February 13, 2011
  Nephew in Psychiatric Hospital with Previous Arrest and Jailing for Drug Possession Has Expiring Green Card  - What Should He Do?
• January 30, 2011
  How to Apply Siblings to Immigrate to the U.S.?
• January 23, 2011
  1. Cousin is an F-1 Student and is Worried About Being Able to File for Political Asylum Within One Year of Coming to the U.S. - Wonders If He Has No Hope of Filing After One Year.
  2. Why Did the Family Visa Categories Go Backward So Awfully in the January 2011 Immigrant Visa Bulletin?
  3. Will Paying $404 Visa Fee for My 23 Year-old Nephew Give Him an Immigrant Visa With My Brother and His Wife?
• January 2, 2011
  1. Political Asylum Applicant With Court Date Next Year has Wife who Became Permanent Resident and Wants to Know Whether to Continue Court Case or Go Through Wife's Application for His Green Card.
  2. U.S. Citizen in Taiwan who Married Wife in China Wants to Process Her Immigrant Visa at the AIT - What Are the Possibilities and How Long Can She Remain Overseas with the Green Card?
  3. Reader Petitioning for Sister Wants to Know What Effect the Taking of Food Stamps Will Have on Sister's Immigrant Visa Application - Whether to Stop Food Stamps Now?
• December 26, 2010
  1. K-1 Fiancee of U.S. Citizen Who Did Not Marry Sponsor Asks About Her Options After Marrying a U.S. LPR and Having Three U.S. Born Children.
  2. On the I-864 Affidavit of Support Form, How do I Count My Income - Is It the Annual Income or the Tax Filing Amount?
  3. Principal Alien Does Not Want Husband to Immigrate Now and Wants to Know the Limitation on Time for Him to Use the Follow to Join Category.
  4. Can B-2 Visa Holder Adjust Status in U.S. When Sponsored by a Green Card Holder Wife?
  5. Reader Wonders Under What Circumstances U.S.C.I.S. Will not Approve Naturalization on Date of Interview Even Where Applicant Passes English and U.S. History and Government Tests.
• December 19, 2010
  1. I Changed My Status to F-1 Student and Want to Return to China for a Visit but Am Afraid Because I Left Out a Big Fact When I Applied for My Visiting Visa.
  2. F-1 Overstayed Reader has Married Husband who Received Political Asylum Green Card in the Same Year as Marriage and Asks if She can Adjust Status Through Her Husband and Under What Conditions.
  3. Parent with F-1 Student Status Must Return Overseas and F-2 Child Cannot Obtain an F-1 Status for Another Year -- What to Do for Child to Remain in States?
  4. What Are the Rules of Porting My I-140 - and Is My Lawyer or Immigration Right?
  5. What is the Extra Certification that I Need for my H-1B Application and Why is U.S.C.I.S. only Giving 30 Days for Me to Get it?
• November 21, 2010
  1. Reader Has Political Asylum from 2003, yet Has Aadjustment of Status Application Still Pending Even After Going to Court at Request of FBI in 2005  - What To Do?
  2. Petitioner for Brother and His Family Has No Job, Only Rental and Interest Income, and Asks If It Can Count as Wages Income and If It Is Enough for Financial Sponsorship.
  3. USC Wife With Two USC Children, One With Cerebral Palsy, Wonders How to Handle Husband's Situation Who Has Voluntary Departure and Did Not Leave.
• November 14, 2010
  1. Can I Qualify as a Special Case for Immigration Since I Heard that the Obama Administration is Giving Special Treatment for Certain Sympathetic Cases?
  2. Why Labor Certification substituted Alien not Allowed to Adjust Status Under Section 245(i)
  3. National Visa Center is Sending Immigration Paperwork to Applicant Far in Advance of the Priority Date Being Available - Why? How to Get Co-sponsors for 11 Applicants?
  4.Reader's Case May be Caught in the Jurisdictional Divide Between U.S.C.I.S. and the Immigration Court.
• August 29, 2010
  1. Delayed Naturalization Due to Background Checks  - For What Reason and What To Do?
  2. Can My Son File for Adjustment of Status With I-130 Receipt (Approval Was Lost) and a Copy of My Naturalization Certificate or Must I Do Something Else?
  3. Petitioner Filed I-130 for Son While in Washington D.C., Was Naturalized After I-130 Approval, and Whole Family Moved to Hawaii  - Where To and How Should We File Son's Adjustment of Status?  How to Upgrade the Category Since I Became a U.S. Citizen after the Approval?
  4. Here 11 Years and With 3 Children and With Failed Labor Certification Case From March 2001, What is the Best Option to Take to Immigrate?
• July 25, 2010
  1. Reader Asks if He Must File for Extension of Green Card Since He Has Filed for U.S. Citizenship.
  2. F-2B Case for Son Was Stopped Automatically by Law Because of His Marriage  - Does Parent Have to Notify the Agency? How to Add His Wife and Daughter on His F-4 Case At This Time?
  3. How to Have the Children Come Back to the U.S. 10 Years From Now If They Give Up Their U.S. Citizenships Now to Reside With Parents in China?
• July 18, 2010
  1. Reader Wishes to Bring Over 70 + Year-old Parents Under B-2 Visas; Wants to Know if He is Qualified and What is the Procedure.
  2. Son Arrived As LPR in 12/09, Does not Yet Have a Green Card, and Wants to Return for a Visit to China. - What to Do for Green Card and Visit?
  3. F-1 Student Grandson's High-school I-20 Expires in June and College I-20 Does Not Start Until September - Can He Stay Since He Will Have Military Service If He Goes Home? When His Mother Gets Her Green Card, Can He Adjust Status in the U.S.?
• June 27, 2010
  1. USC Mother Has Been Living With Father In China For Past 10 Years And Her I-130 Petition Was Recently Denied - What Are The Options Now?
  2. Denied LIFE Act Applicant Who Initially Sneaked Into The Country And Was Later Paroled Back In Wonders If He Can Get A Green Card Through Marriage To U.S. Citizen.
  3. My USC Husband Died In 2009 And My Case Was Denied In 2008- What Can I Do Now?
• June 13, 2010
  1. Can Reader Get Credit for One Year Four Months of 6 Year Maximum Time in H-1B Status That Reader Was in China?
  2. With Case on Appeal to BIA, What Can Reader Do If His Employer Closes The Restaurant?
• June 6, 2010
  1. Can Reader With Exclusion Order Adjust Status to Permanent Residence With I-122 Card Given at Entry?
  2. MBA Reader Needs to Choose Between Two Possible Sponsoring Employers -- Which One?
  3. How Can Reader Get Employer to Sponsor Under EB-2 Instead of the EB-3 Category?
  4. What Are the Best Ways to Sponsor My Parents and My Brother?
• April 18, 2010
  1.Brother's green card was taken away at the airport for not staying long enough in the U.S. What are his options now?
  2. Reader wants to know the rules of naturalization after having just received permanent residence.
  3. Reader is agonizing over whether to put down on naturalization application his incident of arrest by private security at a store which concluded with admonishment.
  4. Procedure for Filing a Sibling I-130 Petition
  5. Must Reader File For Replacement Green Card Which Is Now Expired Since She Is Ready to Apply for Naturalization?
• March 28, 2010
  1.Brother-in-law Owes $20,000 in Child Support Related to Former Marriage. Will That Affect His New Wife's Immigration?
  2. Does the Child Whose Parent Has An Approved I-130 Immigrant Visa Petition Have to Mention that He Has Already Applied for Immigration When Applying for F-1 Student Visa?
  3. What Options Are There for a Conditional Resident Through Marriage Who Will Have a Child With Another Man But Must Later Apply to Remove the Conditional Basis of Residence Status?
  4. Political Asylum Green Card Holder Wants to Apply for 3-Year Naturalization Based on Long Marriage to U.S. Citizen Husband. Can She Do It?
• Februay 28, 2010
  1.Reader Asks Questions on Retirement Benefits for Retired USC Brother's Wife in Hong Kong.
  2.Friend is Married to U.S. Citizen, and Wants to Know How Long for Her 19 Year-old Child to Come to U.S. and What Documents He Will Need to Bring to Register in College.
• Februay 14, 2010
  1. Reader Entered Without Inspection in 2005, Has U.S. Citizen Husband and 2 U.S. Citizen Children, and Wishes to Know How to Adjust Status to Permanent Residence Without Leaving States.
  2. Reader Petitioned for Parents' Permanent Residence and Wants to Know If He Can Act As Their Interpreter at the Time of the Interview at Local U.S.C.I.S. Office.
  3.Reader With Deportation Order Wonders If Obtaining Status in Canada Will Allow Him or Her to Come Back to the U.S. - and If Still Barred, For How Long.
  4. With Final Order of Deportation and Sympathetic Factors, Reader Wonders if She Can Cancel Her Deportation Order by Writing to the Board of Immigration Appeals With Her Evidence.
  5. Guangzhou Sending Marriage Case Back to U.S.C.I.S. and Reader Wonders What Are the Best Steps to Take at This Time.
• Februay 7, 2010
  1.Friend Obtained Green Card Through Mother's Petition Without Informing That Mother Passed Away.  What is the Danger?
  2. Asylum Derivatives Filed I-485 Adjustment of Status Applications in June 2007 and Child Needs Green Card Now.  What to Do?
  3. What is Effect on Naturalization Application for An Asylee Green Card Card Holder Whose Mother is Very Sick in China?
• January 17, 2010
  1.Can I Obtain My Green Card Without a Valid Passport?
  2.How to Upgrade Daughter's Category, but We Ask to What Category?
  3.Questions of What Consequences if Mom Overstays or How Long to Process Her Green Card Later If She Goes Back to China
• January 3, 2010
  1.How to File for Adjustment of Status for An Asylee
  2.B-2 Visas for Parents and What a Consular Officer Looks At
  3.Derivative Son Should Qualify for Section 245(i) Through Aunt's Petition for His Mother
• December 6, 2009
  1.What Can a Wife Do Whose Husband is Abandoning Her for Someone Else and Is Planning to Sponsor That Person for Permanent Residence and Citizenship?
  2. In My Adjustment of Status Application, Should I List My Political Crime and Arrest and Was my Sneaking Into the U.S. a Crime Involving Moral Turpitude?
  3. What Is the Better Choice for Our Daughter in China to Immigrate to the U.S. -- Under Our Petition with 2007 Priority Date or Through Marriage to a U.S. Citizen?
  4. As a U.S. Citizen, What Do I Need to Do to Apply for My Parents and My Sister's Family?
• November 29, 2009
  1.How Can I be Sure That I Will Not Be Blocked from Entry with My Green Card Since I Suspect that a Bad Person in My Home Government May Accuse Me of Some Small Faults?
  2. When Can I Submit my Naturalization Application? Should I Stay in the U.S. Until I Get My Citizenship? And How Long is the Process?
  3. My Priority Date Has Already Passed -- Am I Too Late to Apply for Adjustment of Status? Please Describe Filing Process If I Can Put in the I-485 Application Now.
  4. I Just Got the I-130 Petition Approved for My Unmarried Daughter that I Filed in 2008 As a Green Card Holder -- Can I File the I-485 Application For Her Now?
  5.My Grandmother Is In China And I Want Her to Visit Us -- What Do I Have to Do to Assist Her to Get a Visa?
  
• November 1, 2009
  1.Reader Asking About Leaving the Country for a Long Time; Giving Up the Green Card; Later Being Sponsored by Her Daughter; and Her Daughter Sponsoring Her Son Also.
  2.Reader Does Not Wish to Swear Oath of Allegiance or Salute the Flag During Naturalization Process for Religious Reasons - Is It OK?
  3. Is There Any Way for Immigration Officials to Know How Long I Left the U.S. When I Re-enter With My Green Card?
  4. How Can I Move My Case From a Recommended Asylum Approval to a Final Asylum Approval Since It Has Already Been Almost Five Years?
  5. On the Affidavit As Support, Will Anyone Know That the Petitioner, My Sister, Has Filed for Bankruptcy? Can I Be a Co-sponsor?
  6.How Can I File for a Replacement Green Card Since Mine Eexpires in 2009? What's the Procedure?
  
• October 25, 2009
  1. After Student Visa Has Expired for Five Years, Can My Friend Get Another Student Visa, Apply for Work Card, Adjust Status After Marriage or What Is the Best That She Can Do?
  2. What Are the Rules for 3-Year Naturalization Through Marriage to a U.S. Citizen When We Want to Divorce and How Long Will the Process Take?
  3. How Can My Husband be Included in My Asylum Claim When I Am Here, He is in China, and We Never Registered the Marriage?
  4. What Can I Do When I Got My Adjustment of Status Through Marriage Without Interview Last Year and My Children With K-2 Statuses Still Have Not Been Approved? Can They Travel?
• October 19, 2009
  1. Friend who Sneaked into the U.S. This Year Wants to Marry U.S. Citizen or Apply for Political Asylum and Wants to Know Smooth Way to Receive Legal Status.
  2. U.S. Citizen Holding Taiwan Passport Wants to Know How to Protect his U.S. Citizenship if Going Back to Taiwan for Over Year in 2010.
  3. Applicant with Two Crimes, Drunk Driving Reckless Endangerment and Falsified Document, May Still be Able to Immigrate to the States.
• September 20, 2009
  1. My I-20 As a Student Has Expired in May and I Was Not Accepted for Graduate School -- What Are My Options?
  2. I Am Currently an F-1 Student in a Bachelor's Program and Want to Work - What Can I Do?
  3. Reader Can Adjust Status to Permanent Residence Although Illegal Under the CSPA Since I-130 Petition Took Years to be Approved.
  4. My H-1B Employer Does Not Want to Sponsor Me and It Is Already the Fifth Year - What Options Do I Have to Stay Legally and Get My Green Card?
• September 13, 2009
  1. Having an Asylum Green Card, and Being Charged with Prostitution, Will This Affect My Entering the Country or Filing Immigration Papers for My Family Members Overseas?
  2. Seven Year-old Son Has Left U.S. for Over One Year Without Reentry Permit. Can He Now Come on His Green Card?
  3.With Political Asylum, Can I Safely Return to China If I Get my Green Card Based Upon Marriage to a U.S. Citizen?
  4. Reader Wonders What to do Since I-824 Application to Obtain Duplicate I-130 Approval is Delayed, and Whether an Immigration Officer Will Know How Long He Has Left the Country.
• August 23, 2009
  1. I Was Arrested for Shoplifting a Few Months Ago - Am I Still Eligible for Naturalization?
  2. As an Overstay, Am I Eligible for the Green Card Lottery Program, and Can I and My Family Get Legal Status If I Win?
  3. Can I Transfer My I-130 Petition for My Daughter to My Husband Since He Became a U.S. Citizen, and What is the Effect of My Daughter's Marriage?
• August 16, 2009
  1. Does Mother Who is 96 Years Old and Has Been in the U.S. for Over 10 Years Have to Take the Naturalization Test in English?
  2. What is the Effect of Being Approved for a FAFSA Application for Financial Aid on My I-864 Financial Sponsor?
  3. I Got the I-130 Approval Notice for My Son and His Priority Date is Coming Close. What Can I Do?
• August 2, 2009
  1. Reader is Worried About Filing Joint I-751 Application to Remove the Conditional Basis of Husband's Permanent Residence Based Upon Marriage Where He Does not Live With Her.
  2. Mother Has Been Outside the U.S. for Almost Six Years and Son Worries About Problems that She Will Have Trying to Re-enter with Her Green Card.
  3.Mother Has Left the U.S. Almost Two Years and Plans to Return Now. Will She Have a Problem Keeping Her Green Card?
• July 19, 2009
  1. Third Preference Employment Based Case with Approved I-140 Petition and Priority Date in October 2005 Has not Heard Since August 2007. What to do or to Worry About Concerning Time and Background Checks?
  2. Reader Heard that Asylee Who Returned to China Had Green Card Taken Away at Naturalization Interview and Wants to File for Naturalization Although He Extended Passport and Traveled to China Two Times.
  3. Reader Has Bad Credit and Wonders When and Whether He Can Do the Affidavit of Support for His Parents in This Consular Immigration Case.
• July 5, 2009
  1. Ordered Deported, Can I Reopen My Case Since My U.S. Citizen Sister Applied For Me, My Parents Are Green Card Holders, and I Am From China With Two Children?
  2. Ordered Removed, Can I Reopen My Case Since I Came Into the Country With a Fake Passport, Married a U.S. Citizen, and We Have One Child?
  3.What Can I Do Since I'm Getting Close to the End of My H-1B Maximum Period of Stay and the Company Does not Want to Sponsor Me For My Immigration at this Time?
  4. I Got My Asylum Green Card from China. Do I Need the Chinese Passport for My Naturalization?
  5. Can My Nephew's Family Easily Re-immigrate to the U.S. After Returning There in the 1990's After Getting Their Green Cards? If Not, Can My Nephew Get a Student Visa for His Advanced Study?
• June 14, 2009
  1. As LPR, Filed for Unmarried Son and He Later Married. Can We Keep Old Priority Date Since I Just Became a U.S. Citizen?
  2.Husband Committed a Crime and Did Not Go To Immigrant Visa Interview at AIT Over a Year Ago - Can He Go for Interview Now and What To Do About the Crime?
  3. Left Out Fiancee's Daughter on My K-1 Petition and Case Is Now in Guangzhou - What's the Best Way to Solve the Situation?
• June 7, 2009
  1. Baby Will be Born in June and We Will be Returning to China - What Steps to Take to Legally Establish Her U.S. Citizenship?
  2. It Took Five Years (2002-2007) for Me to Receive My Regular Green Card from Political Asylum. Can I Apply for Naturalization Now?
  3. I Just Got Married to a U.S. Citizen; My H-1 Status Has Ended; and My Parents Filed I-130 for Me Before - What Do I Do Now to Transfer My Sponsorship?
• May 17, 2009
  1. I-824 Approval is Lost - What Can I Do?
  2. Can I Immigrate My Father With the Help of a DNA Test Since I am Illegitimate?
  3. Holding A10 Card, Can I Adjust to Permanent Residence After Using Fraud Document for Entry If I Marry a U.S. Citizen?
  4. What is My Status Since I Was Under B-1/B-2 Status When I Applied for I-485 Adjustment of Status to Permanent Residence?
• May 10, 2009
  1. Divorce was Done in Las Vegas, but a Court Judgment in China Says No Divorce. Can I Legally Marry Another in the U.S.?
  2. Can I Apply for Medicare and What Are the Limits on My Reentry Permit for Trips Overseas?
  3.What are My Chances of Immigrating or Status Change to Student Since I Was Arrested on Entry, Lost my Appeals, Am now Catholic, Have a U.S. Citizen Brother, and a Permanent Resident Wife?
  4. As a Former Communist Party Member, Can I Become a U.S. Citizen?
• May 3, 2009
  1. Husband Had Bad Lawyer, Took Voluntary Departure, Did not Leave, Was Arrested and Deported; Had Approved Labor Certification, Was Eligible for 245(i) and I Am a U.S. Citizen. What Are the Chances If We Appeal to the Circuit Court?
  2. I Am not Able to Financially Sponsor My Wife for Immigration and My Sister Has Reneged on Her Promise. What Can I Do?
• March 29, 2009
  1. What is the True Date of My Permanent Residence, and What Kind of Residence Do I Have to Have to Satisfy the Naturalization Requirements?
  2. How Can I Add in My Brother-in-law's Information on My I-130 Petition for My Sister Since They Just Got Married?
  3. What Can My Wife Do About Her Naturalization Since It's Already Been One Year Since She Passed Her Test?
  4. Is There Any Way That I Can Be Employed As a Nurse Since I Just Passed the RN Examination and Currently Hold F-1 Student Status?
• March 15, 2009
  1. Persons Holding Unexpired Green Cards Are Encouraged by DHS to Change to New 10 Year Green Cards
  2. Reader Hears that Hong Kong Residents Over the Age of 70 Can Come to U.S. Without Visas. True?
  3. My Friend Lost $10,000 At a Casino. Is He Eligible for Naturalization?
  4. How Can I Bring My Four Year-old Nephew From Taiwan to Live With Us for 4-5 Months?
  5. Reader Committed a Crime for which He Was Not Arrested, Only Detained At a Store, and Wants to Know the Consequences of Putting the Information on the N-400 Form for Naturalization.
• March 8, 2009
  1. Overstayed F-1 Visa Holder Thinking About Marriage to a U.S. Citizen As a Way to Become Legal, But There Are Consequences and She May Have H-1B Option.
  2. With Multiple Trips Outside the United States, Am I Still Eligible for Naturalization?
  3. Reader Will Apply for H-1B Visa and Wishes to Know Options If He Is Not Selected Under the H-1B Numbers Cap.
• March 1, 2009
  1. Sneaking Into the U.S., Marrying a U.S. Citizen and Having Two Children - What Are My Options?
  2. U.S. Citizen Marries B-1/B-2 Visitor and Wants to Know the Process Including Whether His Divorcing Ex-wife Who Sponsored Him for the Green Card Will Affect His Petition for His New Wife
• February 22, 2009
  Our Daughter Was Over-aged and Could Not Immigrate With the Rest of Us - Is It Complicated for Us to Petition for Her and What Effect if We Are Staying Mostly in Hong Kong After Getting the Green Cards.
• February 15, 2009
  Reader Has Not Had Biometrics Taken for I-751 Application and is Worried
• February 8, 2009
  1. Reader Came on B-1 Business Visa, Had a Premature Baby, and Wants to Stay Longer. What to do?
  2. Consul Has Returned the I-130 Petition to Immigration for Review in Marriage Case and Petitioner Filed New Petition Which is Now Transferred. What to do?
• January 11, 2009
  1. LPR Readers Wish to Return to China for One-and-a-half to Two Years and Wish to Protect Their Green Card Statuses. How?
  2. LPR Who Received Green Card Through Wife's Political Asylum But Did not Disclose Past Membership in Communist Party Wants to Know What to do in His Naturalization Application
  3. Nun Was to Know Whether She Qualifies to Immigrate to the U.S.
  4. Having Given Birth in the States Under B-2 Status and Receiving Benefit From State Government, Reader Wants to Know Effect On Visa Application in Future and How to Bring Child Back to the U.S.
• January 4, 2009
  1. Reader Asks Whether to File N-400 or N-600 as Arrived in U.S. Before Age of 18 and Mother Has Become U.S. Citizen
  2. Reader Asks Whether LPR Wife With Multiple Past Immigration Problems Needs Lawyer to File for Naturalization
  3. In Immigration Court, Reader Asks Whether Marrying Green Card Holder or Becoming Pregnant Will Help the Case and Whether Three Year Old Child Can Now Immigrate
  4. Crewman Asks Whether He Can Adjust Status to Permanent Residence Upon Marriage to a U.S. Citizen and What Are His Other Options