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What to do while waiting for the CIS to implement DREAM Act deferred action

June 30, 2012

On June 15, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its intention to give deferred action and employment authorization documents (EADs) for a period of two years to certain young people who came to...

National Dream Graduation, Redux

June 27, 2012

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="377"] Photo-op from the National DREAM graduation, with undocumented student organizers from 17 states[/caption] Every June for the past 12 years, undocumented students from around the country have traveled to Washington D.C.to urge...

National Dream Act Graduation

June 27, 2012

Yesterday, I had the privilege to speak to many DREAMers who came from all over the country to lobby Congress to pass the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform. And with activist glee and an...

Big win at the Supreme Court

June 26, 2012

In what was surely the most anticipated decision of the Supreme Court's term, Arizona v. United States came down today and not in the way anybody expected. In a 5-3 decision (Justice Kagan took no...

Dream Act Deferred Action Chart

June 20, 2012

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Good news, but wait, don’t do anything yet!

June 18, 2012

The President's announcement of deferred action for DREAMers has ignited the passions and imaginations of the immigrant community. As it should have. For an immigrant community that has suffered through over a decade of harsh...

Relief for DREAMers

June 15, 2012

The adminisitration electrified the immigration world today by announcing a new policy offering discretionary relief to young undocumented immigrants as a group. This announcement changes administration policy by moving from a de facto cases by...

Benach Collopy heads to the Music City!

June 13, 2012

For the next four days, the partners at Benach Collopy will be at the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) in Nashville, Tennessee. Despite Nashville's world class music scene, BR attorneys...

High Stakes for Seasonal Stablehands

June 9, 2012

Horse racing fans held their breath this week over potential triumph and disaster – I’ll Have Another was poised to take the Belmont Stakes on Saturday to become the first Triple Crown champion since 1978,...

“Good Moral Character” Triumphs In Federal Court

June 7, 2012

Last night, Mr. J.A. slept soundly for the first time in more than four years. On June 5, 2012, Judge James C. Cacheris of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued...

Welcome Dree Collopy!

May 31, 2012

Benach Collopy is proud to announce that Dree K. Collopy has joined the firm as a Partner. By adding Dree, the firm enhances its focus on innovative and creative removal defense and litigation. In addition,...

Memorial Day

May 28, 2012

On Memorial Day we pause to remember the sacrifices of so many that made this country what is today. It is fitting that Memorial Day grew out of the Civil War, arguably the most defining...

Waiver Victory in Baltimore Immigration Court

May 22, 2012

Today, Immigration Judge Elizabeth Kessler granted our client Mr. LCM adjustment of status and a waiver of inadmissibility due to misrepresentations he made in the 1990s. After 26 years in the U.S., Mr. LCM was...

Benach Collopy and DreamActivist Take up the Child Status Protection Act

May 14, 2012

On Friday, May 11, 2012, Benach Collopy filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief on behalf of DreamActivist with the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Cuellar de Osorio v....

Her name is Mother of Exiles

May 14, 2012

"...Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name/Mother of Exiles." (from The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus) For Mother's Day this year,...