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02.01.12  

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.

01.21.12  

PERM Statistics for the First Quarter FY 2012; Driver’s License to Illegal Immigrants Law in New Mexico to be Re-challenged; Updates on Prosecutorial Discretion Implementation’s Resistance/Changed Vision, and USCIS’ Notice of Intent to Allow EWI Immediate Relatives of USCs to File I-601 Waivers in the States.
01.14.12  

Some Points Brought Up by Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Previously Published News Updates

Articles, Questions & Answers



01.31.12   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?
Q&A published on January 29, 2012 World Journal Weekly
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01.27.12   VT, TX, CA and NE Processing Times Updated
01.24.12 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
01.07.12   February 2012 Visa Chart
01.04.12 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
01.03.12   1. US Citizen 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?
Q&A published on January 1, 2012 World Journal Weekly
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12.29.11 Article - Exiting the Year on H.R. 3012, K-1/K-2 Issues, and H-1B Marketing Manager/Marketing Research Positions Contretemps. (English)
12.13.11   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.
Q&A published on December 11, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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11.29.11   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.
Q&A published on November 27, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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11.23.11  

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.
Q&A published on November 20, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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11.21.11 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.
11.18.11 Article "Notes On Hot Topics In Immigration Law" as published in the Immigration Daily on November 14, 2011
11.14.11   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.
Q&A published on November 13, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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11.11.11 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)
11.01.11   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?
Q&A published on October 30, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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10.27.11 Article - U.S.C.I.S. EB-5 Quarterly Stakeholder Engagement Yields Some Answers to EB-5 Processing. (English)
10.11.11 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.
09.26.11   Reader on Appeal from P-3 Extension Denial Wishes to Apply Under EB-1A Extraordinary Alien Classification and Wants to Know His Chances.
Q&A published on September 25, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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09.15.11 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
09.06.11   Experienced Cook Who Just Came to U.S. Wonders How Long to Immigrate Through Restaurant Sponsorship.
Q&A published on September 4, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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09.01.11 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
08.30.11   Reader Has Developmentally Slow Child of Three, Been Here 10 Years Plus, and Wants to Know the Chances for 10-Year Green Card.
Q&A published on August 28, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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08.18.11   Correction to Q&A " I-130 Petitioner Mother Passed Away - Reader Asks How to Save the Case and If Beneficiary's Family Can Obtain Visiting Visas", published in the World Journal Weekly on August 14, 2011
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08.17.11 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
08.15.11   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.
Q&A published on August 14, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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08.01.11   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?
Q&A published on July 31, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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06.27.11   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.
Q&A published on June 26, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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06.21.11 Article - "ICE Halfway Solution Not The Answer To Secure Communities Problem " as published in the Immigration Daily on June 20, 2011
06.13.11   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.
Q&A published on June 12, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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06.09.11 Alan Lee Talks to Chinese United Association of Brooklyn as published in the SingTao Daily on June 8, 2011
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06.08.11 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)
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06.06.11 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)
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06.03.11 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)
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05.31.11   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?
Q&A published on May 29, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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05.18.11   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.
Q&A published on May 15, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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05.17.11 Article - "Ten Interesting Tidbits to Help or Let You Understand Your Immigration Case " as published in the Immigration Daily on April 14, 2011 and as published in World Journal Weekly on May 15, 2011
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05.09.11   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?
Q&A published on May 8, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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04.25.11 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
04.18.11   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?
Q&A published on April 17, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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03.28.11   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?
Q&A published on March 27, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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03.23.11 Article - Important Developments in Labor Certification Application - in Interpreter Releases, Vol.88, No. 6 (February 7, 2011). 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.
03.21.11 Article - "Important Developments in Labor Certification Applications, Part III" as published in World Journal Weekly on March 20, 2011
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03.14.11 Article - "Important Developments in Labor Certification Applications, Part II" as published in World Journal Weekly on March 13, 2011
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03.07.11 Article - "Important Developments in Labor Certification Applications, Part I" as published in World Journal Weekly on March 6, 2011
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02.22.11   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.
Q&A published on February 20, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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02.16.11   Nephew in Psychiatric Hospital with Previous Arrest and Jailing for Drug Possession Has Expiring Green Card  - What Should He Do?
Q&A published on February 13, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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02.02.11 Article - The Renewed Hope for Immigration Legislation in 2011. - in Interpreter Releases, Vol.88, No. 2 (January 10, 2011). 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.
02.01.11   How to Apply Siblings to Immigrate to the U.S.?
Q&A published on January 30, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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01.31.11 Article -The Renewed Hope for Immigration Legislation in 2011. (English)
01.24.11   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?
Q&A published on January 23, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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01.03.11   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?
Q&A published on January 2, 2011 World Journal Weekly
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12.28.10   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.
Q&A published on December 26, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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12.22.10   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?
Q&A published on December 19, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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11.27.10 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
11.23.10 Article - "New I-129 form for non-immigrant workers must soon be used; New U.S.C.I.S. fees due on 11/23/10; H-1B count up to 65,200; Chances of legalization plunge after midterm elections; Republicans plan to attack automatic right of U.S.-born children to be citizens; DREAM Act being pushed by Dems in week of November 29th. " (English)
11.23.10   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.
Q&A published on November 21, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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11.16.10   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.
Q&A published on November 14, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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10.06.10 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)
09.04.10 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)
08.31.10   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?
Q&A published on August 29, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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08.24.10 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)
08.14.10 Article " Visa Bulletin Movement For August 2010 Extremely Positive For Most Countries" most read article on Immigration Daily for July 2010.
07.26.10   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?
Q&A published on July 25, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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07.22.10 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)
07.19.10   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.?
Q&A published on July 18, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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07.12.10 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 World Journal on July 11, 2010 (English) (Newspaper Clipping) (Chinese Traditional) (Chinese Simplified)
06.30.10 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)
06.28.10   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?
Q&A published on June 27, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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06.23.10 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
06.14.10   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?
Q&A published on June 13, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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06.07.10   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?
Q&A published on June 6, 2010 World Journal Weekly
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