Category: Immigration News

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The Board of Immigration Appeals in Matter of T-Z-, 24 I&N Dec. 163 (BIA 2007) held physical harm is not necessary. Threats or severe economic deprivation can rise to the level of persecution. “(1) An abortion is forced by threats of harm when a reasonable person would objectively view the threats for refusing the abortion to be genuine, and the […]

On Monday, September 26, 2011, the Washington Post published a story about Paula Godoy, a client of the Law Offices of Ricky Malik, P.C. Ms. Godoy was in her final hours before deportation and at the 11th hour, through hard work, we won a stay of removal. For the full story, wonderfully written by Post report Eli Saslow, see below. […]

The Immigration world has been abuzz in recent weeks following releases from the White House and DHS. There has been a lot of “stuff” put out there and we want to help you get to the truth, using facts. To do so we need to understand the lead up. On June 17, 2011, two memos were released by ICE chief, […]

Some movement: http://travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_4879.html Ricky Malik, Esq. Law Offices of Ricky Malik, P.C.

The United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) released a fact sheet clarifying the issue of what benefits can make one a public charge. Accepting the following can lead to a public charge determination (determined on a case by case basis): Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Cash assistance from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program State or local cash […]

Could it be made any more expensive.  So now if the entire record of conviction is not enough to prove its a Crime Involving Moral Turpitude (CIMT), the Government can go get whatever else they can find to make it a CIMT, even though a competent criminal judge convicted the person of a crime that is NOT a CIMT.  Matter […]

In a single page decision, the Attorney General of the United States in Matter of Dorman, 25 I&N Dec. 485 (A.G. 2011) remands a case for the Board to consider his questions, amongst which, “whether, absent the requirements of DOMA, respondent’s same-sex partnership or civil union would qualify him to be considered a “spouse” under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Ricky […]

This case tries to close the door on K-1 entrants adjusting through subsequent marriages to US Citizens. Nonetheless the case does help clarify one issue that we have run into before, namely that “A fiancé(e) visa holder may be granted adjustment of status … even if the marriage to the fiancé(e) visa petitioner does not exist at the time that […]

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