Immigration Law

The Department of Justice recently reached a settlement agreement with four car reconditioning companies in California: Automotive Creations, Inc., Dynamic Auto Images, Inc., Prestige Auto Specialists, Inc., and Expert Automotive Reconditioning, Inc. From 2015 to 2018, these companies were requesting that lawful permanent residents produce unnecessary and specific immigration documents to prove their work authorization, […]

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“A 24-hour toll-free hotline is available for family members of those arrested in [the Mississippi raid] to address questions about their detention location and status, and the removal process. This hotline operates in English and Spanish; the phone number is 1-855-479-0502.”   Source: https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-executes-federal-search-warrants-multiple-mississippi-locations

Marriage-based green card approved by the USCIS, at its Boston Field Office, in 101 days!!

What a beautiful day for a marriage-based adjustment interview at the JFK Building in Boston. The USCIS ordered the applicant’s green card to be produced the SAME day as the interview!

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, at its Los Angeles Field Office, approved a Form N-600, Application for Certificate of Citizenship, ONE DAY after receiving the response that Lally Immigration Services, LLC prepared to a Notice of Continuance! If you have received a Notice of Continuance on an application for a certificate of citizenship, or […]

On May 3, 2019, former USCIS director, L. Francis Cissna, signed the Revision of the Naturalization Civics Test Memorandum (PDF, 202 KB), which announced the revision of the naturalization test and formalized a decennial revision schedule of the naturalization test based on adult education best practices. Lally Immigration Services, LLC is closely monitoring the situation […]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently indicated that applicants seeking to file a green card application based on a family-sponsored petition must use the Dates for Filing chart in the Department of State Visa Bulletin for August 2019.  In the F2A category, there is a cutoff date on the Dates for Filing chart. However, the […]

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) recently released its enforcement statistics for FY 2019. The summary of the CBP enforcement actions indicates that CBP found inadmissible 211,697 individuals encountered at ports of entry who were seeking lawful admission into the United States (among others) between October 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. The summary […]

On July 11, 2019, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order directing all executive departments and agencies to provide the Department of Commerce access to any administrative records that it may request to determine the number of citizens, non-citizens, and illegal aliens in the country. The stated purpose of the Executive Order is to ensure […]