Same DNA, Different Passport
What Twins (1988) Gets Right About Nationality and U.S. Immigration Law
Julius and Vincent Benedict were made from the exact same raw material. In Ivan Reitman’s Twins, a secret genetic experiment combines DNA from six exceptional donors into a single embryo, engineered to produce the most complete human being possible. The embryo splits, unexpectedly, into […]
I was in the arena the night Flau’jae Johnson won a national championship as the freshman starting 2 guard for the LSU women’s basketball team. I watched her grow from a promising freshman into one of the most recognizable names in women’s basketball, and being chosen #8 overall in the WNBA […]
Joe and The Juice. citizenM. Lululemon. WeTransfer. Steve Maggi Helped Bring Them All to the U.S.
When a multinational company decides to expand into the United States, the business plan gets all the attention. The real estate team scouts locations. The marketing team builds the launch campaign. The PR […]
In Mukherji v. Miller, a federal judge in Nebraska ruled that USCIS has been applying an unlawful standard to EB-1A petitions since 2010.
The facts: A journalist met 5 of the 10 regulatory criteria. She only needed 3. USCIS denied her anyway, claiming her recognition was “not sustained” because her major awards came before 2016.
The […]
U.S. Immigration law is an alphabet soup of visa categories and concepts, and I thought it would be interesting to try to go from A to Z and see if I could come up with something for each letter. Here goes!
A: Alien – This is the term used for any foreign national involved in […]
The good news on the U.S. immigration front has been few and far between since Covid-19 shut down the world in March of 2021. It’s hard to fathom all the barriers that the U.S. government created in that lapse of time, including country-specific bars to entry which kept millions of people from traveling to […]
SMA Law Firm has its origins in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where its founder, Steve Maggi, set up shop in 2004 and started offering U.S. immigration legal assistance to people and companies from his native Argentina. What developed from that was a specialization in what we call “Outside-In Immigration”. What does this mean? Essentially it […]
On July 13, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) posted a policy memorandum on its website, that provides guidance to USCIS adjudicators regarding their discretion to deny an application, petition, or request without first issuing a Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID) when required initial evidence was not submitted […]
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