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PREPARING FOR IMMIGRATION COURT

© Attorney Farhad Sethna 2013 It is a fact of life that foreign-born individuals who are not US citizens may find themselves in immigration court.  Sometimes, they are placed in […]

March 12, 2013 Farhad Sethna
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FALSE CLAIM TO U.S. CITIZENSHIP

© 2012 Farhad Sethna, Attorney In immigration law, there are very few immigration offenses which are treated as severely as a false claim to U.S. citizenship.  Obviously, aggravated felons, drug […]

February 19, 2013 Farhad Sethna
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A Common Sense Approach to Padilla v. Kentucky- Competent Representation in Criminal Cases with Immigration Implications

A lawyer advising a non-citizen client in a criminal matter has an added duty: to advise the client of the immigration consequences, if any, of a criminal conviction. Failure to advise that results in a deportable consequence or some other immigration detriment, such as inability to naturalize or exclusion, could be the grounds for a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Padilla that could result in the underlying conviction being reopened and vacated.

June 13, 2010 Farhad Sethna
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US Supreme Court issues PADILLA v. KENTUCKY Decision on Immigration Consequences of Criminal Conviction

The US Supreme Court issues a landmark decision that could affect the reopening and reduction of criminal sentences if the alien was given poor advice or no advice on the immigration consequences of a criminal conviction. Notable is the concurrence (agreement) by Justices Alito and Roberts.

June 13, 2010 Farhad Sethna
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What if my NTA was never issued?

This is an actual question I received via e-mail: “Is there an expiry date allowing relief if there has never been issued an NTA? My example is where, after a […]

August 20, 2009 Farhad Sethna
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IMMIGRATION COURT EXPLAINED: PART III: Relief from Removal

In Parts I and II of this series, I wrote of how a case gets to immigration court and subsequently the basics of immigration court including what to expect at […]

July 13, 2008 Farhad Sethna
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Immigration Court Explained: Part II – Master Hearing and Individual Hearing

-Immigration Court Part II- Master hearing and Individual hearing By Attorney Farhad Sethna, Copyright 2007, all rights reserved In part I of this series, we talked about how a case […]

May 16, 2008 Farhad Sethna
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Immigration Court Explained: Part I – The EOIR and the NTA

-Immigration Court Explained: Part 1- The Court and the NTA By Farhad Sethna, Attorney Copyright 2007, all rights reserved This is part 1 of a series of articles on Immigration […]

May 16, 2008 Farhad Sethna

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