Recent Blog Posts
Certain Life Events Can Impact Your Visa Application
Queens immigration attorneys Gladstein & Messinger discuss how divorce, death & other life events can help or hurt your green card or visa application.
Visa Application Company that Did Not Employ Lawyers Shut Down
A local visa services company has been shut down for practicing law without a license. Entertainment Visa Consultant Co., a New York City-based organization, held itself out as a way for foreign entertainers to apply for and receive temporary work visas, and, according to an investigation conducted by the Attorney General of New York,… Read More »
Miscalculation of Available Green Card Visas Leads to Bad News for Many Foreign Professionals
New York immigration attorneys Gladstein & Messinger report on State Department miscalculation of available green cards for disappointed H-1B visa seekers.
Federal Court Dismisses Arizona Sheriff’s Challenge to Obama Administration Immigration Policies
New York immigration attorneys Gladstein & Messinger discuss the federal court dismissal of Arizona Sheriff Joe’s lawsuit against DACA & DAPA executive orders.
Immigration Experts Weigh in on Whether “Anchor Babies” Are Truly Anchors
Republican presidential candidates have made immigration one of their most heavily-covered topics over recent weeks. Candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump has gained a great deal of attention for his newly-released plan to reform the immigration process, should he be elected, which would include the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants and repeal… Read More »
U.S House Votes to Bar Funding to So-Called “Sanctuary” Cities
Between the looming presidential election and the tragic shooting death of a woman, allegedly by an illegal immigrant whom federal authorities had tried to detain, immigration has become a topic demanding a great deal of attention by national politicians. In what some believe is a response to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s strong anti-illegal immigration… Read More »
Provisional waivers to be expanded
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced yesterday some very important news. USCIS is proposing a rule that would expand the provisional waiver program (I-601A form) which allows foreign nationals to apply for unlawful presence waivers in the Unites States instead of at an oversees embassy. This is important as a provisional waiver removes the… Read More »
Supreme Court Case Finds No Right to Judicial Review of Visa Denial to Spouse of US Citizen
In a recent opinion, Kerry v. Din, United States Supreme Court has issued a decision on a case involving the right to have a visa denial reviewed in court for citizen spouses of denied applicants. In this case, Fauzia Din, a naturalized American citizen, had married Kaniska Berashk, a citizen of Afghanistan. Berashk submitted… Read More »
Court Halts Implementation of Executive Orders on Immigration
The United States’ Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a decision upholding the stay put in place by a lower District Court. This action, while not a decision on whether the Obama Administration acted illegally in creating the new immigration policies, puts a hold on the implementation of those policies until a decision… Read More »
DAPA is not dead
On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 millions of potential applicants were disappointed when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal refused to lift an injunction preventing the government from starting the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability – DAPA program. DAPA was to have allowed parents of citizens or permanent residents to obtain deferred action, which means… Read More »
