Immigration News

November 30, 2006 As I previously indicated in the Immigration News section, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services is in the process of making fundamental changes to the naturalization process--the process by which one becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen.  These...

November 16, 2006 Yesterday I was among a small group of local immigration lawyers that lunched with Prakash Khatri, the Department of Homeland Security's Ombudsman for U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services.  The role of the Ombudsman is to identify and and...

November 14, 2006 U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services has announced that it is testing a new format for the examinations taken in the naturalization process.  The new test will feel less like a historical trivia game and test more on concepts such as, What is...

November 9, 2006 For several months I have been advising clients that the results of this week's mid-term elections would be very important for the chances of any type of comprehensive immigration reform in the near future.  Well--good news!  Most observers (like...

October 25, 2006 Immigration has been hotly debated this year, greatly due to the fact that 2006 is an election year. A new website, Immigration2006.org, launches today with the purpose of observing the true impact that the immigration issue has on local and national...

October 12, 2006 Persons filing immigration applications need to be more certain than ever of the consequences of such filings before they filein the wake of a September memo from U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services.  The memo, titled "Disposition of Cases...