Author: Michael J. Gurfinkel, Esq.

Should I appeal or refile?

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Why did you wait so long?

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Atty. Gurfinkel, I was petitioned by my sister in 1990, and immigrated to...

Federal Court also bans State Department’s 2018 Public Charge rule

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a previous article, I wrote that on July 29, 2020, a federal...

Federal Court bans USCIS’s new Public Charge rule

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On July 29, 2020, a federal court judge issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting...

Immediate Relatives: One Person per Petition

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Fixed fiancée visa is same as fixed marriage

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) recently held that a person caught applying...

Is Pres. Trump opposed to the Declaration of Independence?

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But my child was a baby when the petition was filed!

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Atty. Gurfinkel: My sister petitioned me in 2001 in the F-4 category, (brother/sister...

Trump extends and expands proclamation “suspending” immigration

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On June 22, 2020, President Trump issued another Executive Order (EO) or Proclamation,...