Immigration Status and Employment Laws in New York
Foreign workers in the U.S. occupy every position from farmhand and dishwasher to engineer, doctor and CEO, and their visas and legal statuses also vary greatly. For the majority of the twelve-plus million undocumented immigrants, there is no such thing [...]
The Government Shutdown: How is it affecting immigration cases? by Kate Chaltain, Esq
On Monday, January 21st, we entered the sixth week of the federal government shutdown, making it the longest shutdown of the federal government in U.S. history. Government agencies that receive federal appropriations and are not deemed “essential service” providers do [...]
Anchor Babies, Birthright Citizenship and SMA’s Family Immigration Practice
SMA has been helping reunite and keep together families through different immigration processes since 2004. This includes bona fide marriages where one or both of the spouses lives outside the U.S., or where they are both in the U.S. It [...]
Anchor Babies, Birthright Citizenship y la práctica de inmigración familiar de SMA
Desde el 2004 y través de diferentes procesos inmigratorioSMA Law Firm ha estado ayudando a reunir y a mantener a muchas familias juntas. Entre uno de estos procesos se encuentra el matrimonio de buena fe donde uno o ambos cónyuges [...]
“Outside-In Immigration”
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 Country Built on the Shoulders of Immigrants
It seems obvious, doesn’t it? When the first boats from Europe came to the shores of what became colonies and then eventually the United States of America, the only native “Americans” were the Indians, the only people who can claim [...]