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The Wind of Change! Last week, Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton sent a Memo to ICE’s staffs that may ease or cease enforcement of deportation for aliens who have pending immigrant applications and are likely to be approved. These are applicants that entered the U.S. illegally… or overstayed their legal entry [...]

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AGGRAVATED FELONY DOES NOT INCLUDE PROBATION CASES WHERE A “SENTENCE” IS REQUIRED

By The Houston Immigration Lawyers and the Houston Immigration Attorneys at
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The Illegal Immigrant Reform And Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) stipulates crimes that are removable (deportable) for foreign nationals, including U.S. permanent residents. Among these crimes, those that [...]

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PHAM & CLOVES, PLLC - Houston Green Card Attorneys

I usually do not rant and rambling on and on, especially in a blog.  However, I am making an exception today.  It never cease to amaze me as to how our tax money is “well-spent” by our government.  The latest evidence of how wasteful our government spend [...]

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U.S. Supreme Court’s Holding, Motion to Reopen May Be Reviewed by Federal Court of Appeals

On January 20, 2010, in a rare unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, the court held that a “motion to reopen” by the Attorney’s General, i.e. the immigration court and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), may be reviewed by [...]

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U.S. Asylum Applications and Withholding of Removal
 
Over the past few years, foreign nationals find it more difficult to successfully obtain asylum application approvals.  Partially, this is because of the number of fraudulent or frivolous applications that were filed by unqualified applicants and by unscrupulous lawyers.  As in many other immigration applications, this is unfortunate and [...]

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