AAO changes NIW standard – Matter of Dhanasar
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2017 Summary: On December 27, 2016, the Administrative Appeals Office (the government agency in the USCIS which oversees decisions of the USCIS to decide if […]
DACA Data Protected, Says DHS Secretary Johnson
Date posted: January 7, 2017 As background, recall that president-elect Trump has Tweeted that he would rescind President Obama’s “illegal!” and “unconstitutional!” executive actions, including DACA, on his first day […]
Who’s Going to do Our Dirty Work*, America?
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 Good morning America! As president-elect Trump puts into place a team of anti-immigration advisers for the transition and a very anti-immigrant Attorney General- Jeff […]
USCIS Plays Grinch for Christmas
by Farhad Sethna, © 2016 Too bad that one of my last posts – or possibly the last post for 2016 – has to be a negative observation: The USCIS […]
District Court Orders Attorney General to Reform Bond Policy
By Farhad Sethna, Attorney © 2016 The American Civil Liberties Union, in a extremely interesting case which must certainly be closely watched, filed a lawsuit in the Central District of […]
Plan De Accíon Para Inmigrantes Después De La Elección De Trump
© Farhad Sethna, Abogado, 2016 Acostumbrémonos a la realidad de que tenemos un Presidente electo Republicano (Presidente después de Enero 20, 2017), un Congreso Republicano, y el chance de que […]
Trump’s Muslim Registry? Trampling the Constitution – Part 1 of many more to come
CNN reports that President-elect Trump plans to bring back an old, obsolete, and rejected National Security plan originally created in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. That procedure, called the National […]
Action Plan for Immigrants after Trump Election
© Farhad Sethna, Attorney, 2016* So now, let’s get used to the reality that we have a Republican President-elect (President after January 20, 2017), a Republican Congress, and the odds […]