Asylum, the Border Crisis and Fixing the Process
My first experience in immigration law came in my first summer clerkship while attending Georgetown Law Center, in the summer of 1999. A former immigrant myself, I had gone through several immigration processes to eventually become a US citizen [...]
What Immigration Reform is and Why We Need It
For as long as immigration has been a hot topic in politics, there has been one common conclusion that all people in the political spectrum agree on: The US immigration system does not work and needs to be overhauled. [...]
The A to Z of US Immigration
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 [...]
Birthright Citizenship – It is time for a real overhaul of the system to reward those who follow the laws and punish those who don’t
Immigration and Birthright Citizenship – What We Need to Do to Deal with It. Let’s face it – this country is a disaster on so many fronts. The government finally woke up out of its century-and-a-half-long slumber to establish [...]
From US citizens to Personas Non Grata to US citizens again
The Ortegas were all U.S. citizens, from the grandfather, Joaquin Sr., to his son, Joaquin Jr., and Jr.’s wife, Laura, and their three kids, including 17-year-old Joaquin III. What made this family unique was that they were all U.S. citizens, [...]
Why “Rock Stars” Deserve Green Cards Too!
The recent Super Bowl ad, which had the godfather of heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne, and Paul Stanley, the face of glam rock, objecting to the use of the term “Rock Star” for non-music-related overachievers was proof positive of the [...]