Immigration Articles

DHS proposes tougher rules for sponsors

[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 October 1, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will...

01 October, 2020

K-1 petition denied; should we marry?

[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 Attorney Gurfinkel: I am a U.S. citizen, and filed a K-1 (fiancé) petition...

23 September, 2020

Public Charge injunction now limited to Connecticut, New York and Vermont

[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]Pres. Trump’s new, stricter public charge rules seem to go back and forth,...

19 August, 2020

Getting an abusive green card

[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 married a U.S. citizen for love, hoping we would live...

09 September, 2020

Should I appeal or refile?

[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 Attorney Gurfinkel: I just received a denial from USCIS, giving me 33 days...

16 September, 2020

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...

02 September, 2020

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...

12 August, 2020

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...

05 August, 2020

Immediate Relatives: One Person per Petition

[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]Most petitions (family and employment based) allow the petitioner to include the beneficiary’s...

29 July, 2020