Boston, MA
Immigration Lawyer at Boston, MA
Practice Areas: Immigration
OUTCOME: Immigrant Visa granted
An Iranian client's immigrant visa (green card) had been held up for more than a year in "administrative processing" when FIAP took his case. Soon after we filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in fe ... deral court, the State Department emailed that administrative processing was finally complete. Some weeks later, the client received his immigrant visa.
OUTCOME: Motion to reconsider granted, certificate of citizenship issued, passport request granted
The client was deported to Haiti after the Board of Immigration Appeals incorrectly denied his citizenship claim. After a successful motion to reconsider and federal court litigation, he was able to re ... turn to the United States, and subsequently received his certificate of citizenship and US passport.
OUTCOME: Granted certificate of citizenship
I took my Honduran-American client's case after the Board of Immigration Appeals already had ordered him removed, and when he was represented by different counsel. After a Second Circuit appeal, DHS fi ... nally agreed that the client is a citizen, paroled him back into the United State, and granted him a certificate of citizenship.
OUTCOME: Naturalization granted
A naturalization client contacted FIAP after USCIS denied her application based on a finding that she had abandoned her residence by spending more than six months outside the country. FIAP assisted the ... client in developing a record showing that she in fact did not abandon her U.S. residence. As a consequence, USCIS changed its mind, and the client is now a U.S. citizen.
OUTCOME: Removal proceedings terminated; U.S. citizenship recognized; DHS settled the case for $275,000.00
In 2011, I took a case in front of the Board of Immigration Appeals for a client who had been ordered removed. I argued that he was a derivative U.S. citizen and that prior counsel had been ineffective ... . The Board remanded on ineffectiveness grounds, and the Immigration Judge found that the client was a U.S. citizen in remanded proceedings. Instead of being deported to his country of origin, the client is living in the United States and has a U.S. passport, a certificate of citizenship, and a six-figure settlement from the Department of Homeland Security.
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