Blog Posts in August, 2012

The Obama administration recently announced that it is lightening the pressure on low-priority deportation / removal cases, allowing certain undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States and ...

The Diversity Immigration Visa is a program mandated by congress that makes 55,000 diversity visas available each year. The recipients of the diversity visa are selected randomly from all applicants ...

U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) will not grant deferred action to individuals who have been convicted of a felony, three or more misdemeanor offenses not arising out of the same ...

As outlined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deferred action is a new process available to those who meet the criteria: 1. On June 15, 2012 you were under the age of 31; 2. You entered the ...

Deferred action by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not confer lawful status on an individual. Rather, deferred action prevents an individual from accruing unlawful presence during the ...

Deferred action is an exercise of prosecutorial discretion on behalf of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) defer removal action of an individual in the United States without lawful ...