Becoming a United States citizen can be completely life changing for an immigrant. While most individuals obtain lawful permanent residency through naturalization after having an employment-based or family-based green card for five years, there are other manners in...
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Year: 2012
4 million undocumented immigrants have children that are U.S. citizens
Recently, we detailed the plight of a father that was deported to Mexico and consequently fighting to maintain his parental rights and move his children to Mexico. While it does appear that this father will be successful in his pursuits -- after much work and...
Lawsuit against ICE granted permission to proceed
Immigrants that are detained are not always deported. A non-citizen is typically detained when they are stopped at a worksite or in traffic, and charged with a crime. An individual can be deported because they are undocumented, overstayed their visa or abandoned their...
Deported father to be reunited with 3 sons after long battle
Last week we blogged on the plight of a father desperately fighting to maintain his parental rights after he was deported to Mexico in 2010 for being repeatedly ticketed in North Carolina. When the father was deported, his three sons were split up and placed in the...
Deported man fighting to maintain parental rights of 3 sons
When a parent is deported, the aftermath can devastate a family. In many instances, immigration officials will not even allow the deported parent to make arrangements for their children. A father of three young boys that was deported to Mexico after being stopped for...
12-year-old boy begs judge not to deport his father
A father of five children that reportedly never missed a day of work and regularly volunteered his time at a food distribution center since coming to the United States from Mexico is desperately seeking relief from deportation. Letters have poured in on behalf of the...
Assistant professor successfully secures green card
There are a number of individuals that currently work and live in Washington, D.C. thanks to a temporary worker visa. A man that exactly fit this description came to the United States eight years ago from Germany as a genomics researcher with high hopes of landing a...
Lawsuit against ICE seeks data on immigration detention centers
More data on federal immigration detention centers could become available if a recently filed lawsuit is successful. Late last month, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, asking for greater access to such pieces...
U.S. citizenship available to immigrants through military program
There are a variety of paths to becoming a U.S. citizen, but for some immigrants, the process can take many years, even as much as a decade. Certain programs offer a fast track to U.S. citizenship, and immigrants in the Maryland and Virginia area may be interested to...
U.S. to keep immigration laws the same in face of Cuba’s change
While U.S. immigration law is a broad, ponderous subject, it contains some rather narrow provisions. For example, Cuban citizens who come to the U.S. are eligible to become permanent residents as long as they wait one year before applying. This policy is expected to...