New York Lawyer's Legal Updates
Who Is Affected By Trump’s Immigration Proclamation 2020
29 June 2020Author: USA Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova NYC Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova provided a summary of Trump’s recent Immigration proclamations. On June 22, 2020, President Trump signed a new Immigration proclamation that effectively foreclosed most of the legal immigration into the United States. This was the second proclamation related t ...
VAWA: Divorce, New Marriage And Children: Tips For Successful Cases
23 June 2020Author: NYC Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova Alena Shautsova, NYC Immigration lawyer helps clients who were abused by their US citizen or lawful permanent resident family members to obtain status in the US using VAWA and other provisions of the US immigration laws. VAWA stands for Violence Against Women Act, but the law can be used not only by f ...
212(k) Waiver: How And When To Use It
14 June 2020Author: NYC Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova NYC Immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps immigrants to overcome grounds of inadmissibility and deportability. The US Immigration laws provide for a number of waivers or forgiveness for certain immigration violations. Which waiver to use and when maybe not so easy to determine: each waiver has it ...
212(h) Immigration Waiver For Criminal Conviction
10 June 2020Author: NYC immigration lawyer ALENA SHAUTSOVA NYC immigration lawyer Alena Shautsova helps non-citizens to obtain a waiver of inadmissibility in connection with criminal convictions that are affecting one’s application for adjustment of status or United States visa. Almost all criminal convictions, and at times, even arrests will complicate a pe ...
US Asylum Law: What Does Membership In A Particular Social Group Really Mean?
05 June 2020Author: Asylum lawyer Alena Shautsova US Asylum laws are extremely complicated: we have regulations, international law asylum norms, decisions by the Board of Immigration appeals, US Federal court decision, and US Supreme Court decision. At the law office of Alena Shautsova, NYC Immigration lawyers are working hard to stay abreast of the recent ...
U Visa Status: I Am The Victim Of A Crime, But I Do Not Have A Legal Status In The US. Is There Anything I Can Do?
04 June 2020Author: New York Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova In the Law Office of Alena Shautsova, NYC Immigration attorney based in Brooklyn, New York, we help to qualify victims of crimes to obtain “legal” status in the United States. I am here to tell you that you do not have to be afraid if you are a victim of a crime, contact an attorney to make sure ...
Re-Entry After Removal: Consequences And Solutions
02 June 2020Author: New York Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova A person with a removal order issued by the Immigration Judge or an expedited removal order faces extra challenges when he/she executes that order (departs the United States) and reenters the United States. A familiar scenario would be when one attempts to enter the United States but is turned do ...
Can You File A PERM Petition By Yourself?
30 May 2020Author: Alena Shautsova PERM petition or form 9089 is a petition by a US employer filed with the Department of Labor in order to sponsor a non-citizen employee for permanent work in the United States. Even though it is an employer who is supposed to file the petition, due to high technicalities of the process, most employers hire an attorney to ha ...
Humanitarian Asylum
14 May 2020Author: Asylum Lawyer Alena Shautsova In order to receive an approval of asylum in the United States, a person needs to have met a variety of criteria to prove that they have had past persecution or likelihood of future persecution based on their race, national origin, membership of a particular social group, religion or political opinion. On to ...
Tips To Remember When Filing For Asylum: Changing Law And Persecution
29 April 2020Author: NYC Asylum Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova The US Asylum process has drastically changed throughout the past four years, mostly becoming stricter, less reasonable, and introducing a Russian Roulette style elimination of the recognition of certain social groups. It has always been the position of the United States, as with most countries ...