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USCIS Policies Leading to More Denied Cases

A word of warning to all of my clients I became an immigration lawyer in 1995. For most of my career, USCIS helped immigrants become permanent residents or US citizens. They would give immigrants the benefit of the doubt, usually approving applications where they had discretionary power to approv...


December 2020 DACA Update

The USCIS started taking new DACA applications on December 7, 2020, and they reinstated the original rules of DACA. I am ready to help anyone that never applied for DACA before to apply now. Here are the qualifications: You must be in high school now, or studying to get a GED, or already have y...


August 2020 DACA Update

The USCIS is not accepting first time DACA applicants right now. The USCIS is breaking the law and defying an order from the US Supreme Court and from a couple of other federal courts that have ordered it to accept new applications. There are several lawsuits pending throughout the USA right now aga...


USCIS Filing Fees Going Up Again

The USCIS has announced that their filing fees for most immigration applications are going up in most cases beginning on October 4, 2020. However, the filing fee for some applications will actually be going down on that date. Here is a list of the most common applications and their current and new f...