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Francisco Nuñez Villegas, client of the month- May 2014

May 11, 2014

Our Client of the Month for May 2014 is Francisco Nuñez Villegas. Francisco recently became a United States citizen after a seven-year emotional roller coaster ride, filled with both highs and lows and exciting and...

Nine Ways Obama Could Make Immigration Law Better Without Bothering to Wake Congress

March 13, 2014

The House of Representatives passed the Enforce Act yesterday. This piece of legislation, which is never going to become law, provides a cause of action to Members of Congress to sue the President for failure...

Kyle, Client of the Month, March 2014

March 11, 2014

Kyle is our Client of the Month for March 2014. Kyle became a United States citizen on March 10, 2014 when Gina Pastore, a supervisor for the Naturalization Section for the Newark office of the...

Taras and Oksana, Clients of the Month, November 2013

November 11, 2013

Our Clients of the Month for November 2013 are Taras Shumelda and Oksana Korenovska. We can think of few people who have had such a productive six months. Six months ago, Taras was a permanent...

Iraqi Naturalization Victory

October 22, 2013

On October 17, 2013, Alan Attoof Baba became a citizen of the United States. A native of Iraq, Alan obtained his Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) status in 2011 through the Department of State's Special Immigrant...

On Marches and Flags

October 14, 2013

Last week, among the hundreds of American flags raised at Tuesday's March for Human Dignity and Respect, a few Mexican flags were spotted. That's right. Mexican citizens carried the Mexican flag in Washington DC, the...

Abel Rodriguez, Client of the Month, August 2013

August 11, 2013

Abel Rodriguez is our client of the month for August 2013. On July 30, 2013, Abel took the oath of naturalization to complete his journey from undocumented immigrant to citizen. Abel's "path to citizenship" was...

Arizona loses again, but its citizens win

June 17, 2013

Today, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. that the state of Arizona cannot separately require an individual to prove he is a citizen in order to register...

The April 10 Immigrant Rights Rally by Liana Montecinos

April 23, 2013

“¡Obama escucha, seguimos en la lucha!” This shouting was heard from downtown on 14th street as Sandra, Mariela, and I made posters to join thousands of people at the immigration rally held in front...

Things are about to get really interesting

April 10, 2013

As Washington, DC has seemed to jump from winter to summer, the politics of immigration reform are heating up. For the rest of this week, the Capital will be inundated with activists, lawyers, politicians and...

The Leaked White House Immigration Bill: the Legalization Component

February 20, 2013

It took only three years longer than promised—and a leak that may or may not have been intentional—but the White House has finally produced a legislative proposal to fix the immigration system. Dubbed the Comprehensive...

Immigration Reform 2013: The Gang of Eight Plan

February 11, 2013

The week before last, we surveyed President Obama’s plan for comprehensive immigration reform. Today, we will look at a similar plan put forward by a bipartisan group of Senators known as the “Gang of Eight.”...

Why Immigration Reform Must Also Avoid the Mistakes of 1996

February 6, 2013

Those following Tuesday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee could be forgiven for thinking the sole cause of our country’s immigration problems was the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (“IRCA”), the landmark bill...

Immigration Reform 2013: The President’s Plan

February 1, 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVIuW8vJ_E&w=560&h=315] What a week it has been. There has been more positive discussion of immigration reform in the last week than in the past decade and while none of it is perfect, it is...

My Trip to the White House to Discuss Immigration Reform

November 21, 2012

In Washington, we have very hot summers without a real beach to beat the heat. Our winters can be wet, sloppy messes or we can get pounded with multiple snow storms in a city completely...