If you’ve been the victim of a qualifying crime and are considering applying for a U Visa, you’ve probably discovered that finding trustworthy legal information isn’t always easy. Between government websites, social media discussions, online forums, and advice from friends or family members, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. Every case is different, and information that […]
There is a form of relief in immigration court that survivors of abuse keep missing because nobody tells them it exists. It is not the VAWA self-petition that gets all the attention. It is the version designed specifically for people who are already in removal proceedings, sitting in front of an immigration judge, with deportation
On June 5, 2026, after 185 days of silence on tens of thousands of pending applications filed by people from 39 countries, a federal judge in Rhode Island did what U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had refused to do. He told the agency to start adjudicating immigration benefits again. The ruling came in Dorcas International
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Here is the news Nigerian families have been waiting six months to hear. Fiance visa processing in Nigeria is working. K visa applicants are being scheduled, interviewed, and approved at the U.S. consulate in Lagos despite the partial ban that has frozen so much else. One of my own clients was approved at her visa
A woman came to my office last fall with a manila folder in her lap and her hand shaking as she opened it. Inside were three years of text messages, two hospital records, a copy of her marriage certificate, and a single photograph she did not want to look at. Her husband, a U.S citizen,
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On May 21, 2026, USCIS issued Policy Memorandum PM-602-0199 addressing adjustment of status applications and the agency’s use of discretion in deciding Green Card cases filed inside the United States. Since this memorandum came out, I have had a lot of worried people reach out to me. Many immigrants and families have understandably become concerned
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A client sat across from me last month and asked the question I get more than any other: “How long is this actually going to take?” She’d filed her VAWA self-petition almost three years ago. She had a prima facie letter. She had a work permit. But she didn’t have an approval, and she was
Most adjustment of status denials I have seen in 19 plus years of immigration law share one strange feature. The applicant is sitting there reading the letter, and the actual reason for the denial is technically on the page, but it is buried under so much regulation that nobody could explain what just happened to
A woman called my office last month at seven on a Wednesday morning. She had been refreshing her USCIS case status online every ninety seconds for two days, ever since the page changed from “Interview Was Scheduled” to a phrase she did not recognize. She was convinced something had gone wrong. Her husband was awake
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