West Covina, CA
Immigration Lawyer at West Covina, CA
Practice Areas: Immigration
OUTCOME: Court reopened case
Client lived in different state and applied for adjustment of status based upon marriage. Client divorced and moved to California. Client did not update USCIS with her new address. Immigration Court ... issued removal order in absentia. Client re-married and submitted new adjustment of status application. Client arrested at USCIS interview and detained. I submitted motion to reopen with declarations and evidence.
OUTCOME: USCIS granted
Client had conditional LPR status. Divorced husband prior to expiration of conditional green card and moved to new city. Worked with client to obtain declarations from ex-husband and friends to show ... that marriage was bona fide. Sought waiver of joint filing requirement.
OUTCOME: Remand to BIA
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that BIA abused its discretion in failing to consider alien's claims of equitable tolling and ineffective assistance of counsel. 2008 WL 1874514
OUTCOME: Ultimately, plaintiff's natz application approved
In a Petition for Hearing on a Naturalization Application pursuant to 8 USC 1447(b), U.S. District Court denied government's motion to dismiss. 2007 WL 3255004.
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