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I-9 Compliance For Employers

Author: Alena Shautsova I-9 compliance is a necessity nowadays, and if you do not know what I-9 means you should at least read this article: I-9 Audit. Today’s article will be focused on internal audit that employers should conduct to avoid penalties for missed compliance. It is important to remember that employers cannot discriminate against empl ...

Recourse For Widow(er)s After The Death Of The Beneficiary

Author: Green Card Attorney Alena Shautsova We all know that life happens, and sometimes it happens unpredictably. It may occur that one who started the immigration process for his/her family members passes away and the beneficiary is left in the middle of a crisis unsure about his/her immigration status. For situations like that, USCIS created s ...

New Proposed Rule Regarding Non-immigrant Work Visas

Author: Visa lawyer Alena Shautsova The New Year comes with new proposed changes in work visas regulations. I would like to emphasize that the rule published is a proposed rule. It means it is not the law yet, and we can only speculate what the final result would be. However, it is worth to highlight certain proposed changes just to see the direct ...

How To Get An O Or P Visa

Author: New York Immigration attorney Alena Shautsova The US government offers some non-immigrant visas for people with extraordinary ability in the science, arts, education, business or athletics, or in the motion picture and television field. Such visas known as O visas, if granted, are usually given first for three years, and then can be extend ...

Particular Serious Crime And Withholding Of Removal

Author: New York Deportation Lawyer Alena Shautsova Withholding of removal often is the only form of relief for those who either missed their one year deadline to file an application for asylum, or those with previous immigration problems and in particular, previous removal. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.31(e) (describing “withholding-only” proceedings). T ...

USCIS Reminder: Deadline To Register For Nepal TPS Is December 21

Author: New York Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova It is extremely important to remember that the deadline to register for Nepal TPS is approaching. All persons who qualify, regardless of their status (or absence of status) are encouraged to apply for the TPS. The TPS provides an opportunity to be protected from the removal and also allows its be ...

Sharing Good News

Author: New York Immigration Lawyer Alena Shautsova This past month was very fruitful in terms of positive decisions by USCIS on our cases and we would like to share the good news. We had an I 601 waiver approved for one of our clients, along with Parole in Place for another one, and a PERM certification for a client who was waiting for it for a d ...

Adjustment Options For K-1 Visa Entrants

Author: VAWA attorney Alena Shautsova A K-1 visa is issued to a fiance of the U.S. citizen who is willing and able to get married to the U.S. citizen within 90 days of arrival. If everything goes well, the couple gets married and later, they apply for adjustment of status for the non-citizen. The marriages by K-1 visa holder and a U.S. citizen are ...

Emergency Travel While Adjustment Of Status Is Pending

Author: Green Card Attorney Alena Shautsova It has always been the case that one who applied for a permanent resident status while in the U.S. cannot travel outside the U.S. without a special permission if he/she does not wish to forego his/her application. For a while it was also the case that one who gets this special permission, could not retur ...

Halloween Is Coming - Trick Or Treat, How To Choose An Attorney

Author: New York Immigration attorney Halloween is coming, and with it the infamous question of children dressed as heroes or monsters at the door: Trick or Treat? I thought about this as an analogy of the legal field for a while and it really fits quite nicely. The point of Halloween for most children (especially when they get a bit older and kn ...