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Q: New York Immigration Lawyers?
I am in need of an immigration lawyer in New York City. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

A: I would use Targetlaw.com and do a search for new york immigration lawyer. With this engine you should have no problem finding an attorney. Good luck

Q: any one immigration lawyer from new york?


A: New York Immigration Lawyers (212) 944-9420

Q: Bilingual (spanish/english) Immigration Lawyers in New York?
Any website that i could find bilingual immigration lawyers in NYC or in the state of NY? Please provide a link.. Thankk You..

A: Portela Law firm is really good. They are experienced and professional. English/Spanish speaking of course. Good luck.

Q: How can i find a pro bono lawyer to work on an immigration case for me in New York City?


A: Go to lawresearch.com and they have a listing in your area where you can find a lawyer that needs to fulfill their required pro bono work.

Q: anybody knows a honest lawyer in new york city that can help us with immigration problems?
hello, i'm trying to bring my fiancee to new york, since march, but i had so many problems with the papers, i request the k1 visa , but they send the papers back 2 times, i'm really desperado, help!!!

A: Why did they send the papers back? Where is your boyfriend? If you are a citizen applying for a fiancee then you should ask for a K-3... If you are trying to do it like`that must be cause he doesn't have a visitors visa... It takes around 8 to 10 month... (973) 361-0080 is a place where you can call for information...

Q: immigration lawyer?
My moms last name was spelled wrong on my bith certificate, along with mines. I was born in New York City, but currently live in Canada. I would like to know for me to get all of that stuff fixed would i have to get a lawyer, and in what way would the lawyer help me if the error is made in New York?

A: Well if both of your names are spelled wrong then this starting to sound a little fishy...You will need a lawyer to chnge this if you are in fact who you are claiming to be. The easy thing will be that since the 1950's in most cases there will be finger/hand prints taken at birth. Also there is blood typing and you will ahve a raft full of other documents such as SSN's and the like. If these don't match then they will consider you a fraud. However if they do match then you don't even need a lawyer unless it is a big hassle to return to NY.

Q: Does anyone know a good immigration lawyer I could use to process an H1B Visa?
I was introduced to usavisanow.com, but I cannot find them on the New York Bar Association Website.

A: Contact the law offices of Hari S. Lal in Orange County Ca.

Q: Is this the address of canada airport imigration lawyer? Can anyone confirm it ?
I have been asked to send usd 220.00 to apply for visa? Is it true or jus another JOB SCAM??? Can any one from Canada help me ??? CANADA AIRPORT IMMIGRATION LAWYER HEAD QUARTER. Greater Toronto Law Office of Charles W. Pley Suite 102, 2660 Sherwood Heights Drive Oakville, Ontario, Canada L6J 7Y8 Fax Number: (905) 829-2100 Law Office New York, Visa Law Group Penn Station Center, 11 Penn Plaza 5th Floor New York 10001 NY, USA. Fax Number: (212) 504-8356

A: They are affiliated to the Organization of Professional Immigration Consultants: http://opic.org/memp.htm They are legal, but don't just take it from me or any other person. Anyone can invent anything, even webpages. Verify it by yourself at the Canada Government Page: How do I Know if a Representative is Authorized? http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/consultants/verify-rep.html or make a call to the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants at: Fax: 416-572-4114 Or send them an e-mail making the same question to the Society at: information@csic-scci.ca http://www.csic-scci.ca/indexE.html

Q: My fiance has been in immigration holding for more than 2 months, they told him that Va is extradicting?
He was sent to York, Pa. to be deported etc., but a charge in Va came back where he didn't go to court for a DUI charge and Pa has told me that Va is coming to get him...How long does it take for them to come and get him? Should he get a lawyer?

A: they will get him and once he has paid his debt he will be deported

Q: Costs for a K1 visa?
Does anyone know what the approximate costs are involved with getting a K1 visa in the process from start to finish? Also-- approx how much do immigration lawyers charge in New York? And is it best to go through a lawyer or apply independently? Thanks

A: I think it's best to apply independently but only if you feel confident doing it yourself. The K1 process is anything but complicated if you follow the instructions and have nothing special to your case - and even if you have something special, then as long as you fit the requirements you should be fine. My now-wife and I went through the process by ourselves just fine, although I did most of the "read up and study" work myself, using online resources (and I'm the foreigner, not the US citizen!). Above all, the forums and guides on www.visajourney.com helped tremendously in clarifying just about everything. As far as costs go, the burden on the US citizen is the I-129F application fee, which I think is $455. That's it basically, excluding the probably tiny fee involved in getting the Affidavit of Support notarized, and postage fees to mail stuff to USCIS. The burden on the foreign fiance(e) includes the medical fees and the visa application fee, which is usually about $100. Medical fees vary, obviously. I can't really think of anything else besides the obvious plane ticket.

Q: Need A Shocker Today ?: Illegals Don’t Have US Citizen Rights!?
Yes it takes a minute to read so do not whine.LONG ISLAND officials protested when federal agents searching for immigrant gang members raided local homes two weeks ago. The agents had rousted American citizens and legal immigrants from their beds in the night, complained Lawrence W. Mulvey, the Nassau County police commissioner, and arrested suspected illegal immigrants without so much as a warrant. “We don’t need warrants to make the arrests,” responded Peter J. Smith, the special agent in charge in New York for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the agency that conducted the raids. His concise answer helps explain the friction that the Bush administration’s recent campaign of immigration enforcement has caused. Last week, immigration officials announced that they had made more than 1,300 arrests across the country over the summer when they went looking for gang members. Since the raids were carried out under immigration law, many protections in place under the American criminal codes did not apply. Foreign residents of the United States, whether here legally or not, answer to a different set of rules. Immigration agents are not required to obtain warrants to detain suspects. The agents also have broad authority to question people about their immigration status and to search them and their homes. There are no Miranda rights that agents must read when making arrests. Detained immigrants have the right to a lawyer, but only one they can pay for. While criminal suspects are generally sent to jails near the courts that hear their cases, immigration agents have discretion in deciding where to hold immigrants detained for deportation. Many suspected illegal immigrants who were detained in Nassau County, for example, were quickly moved to York, Pa., distant from family and legal advice. This parallel course for noncitizens is not new. But it has come into fuller view as the enforcement drive has swept up record numbers of illegal immigrants, also reaching legal immigrants and citizens. In answer, a barrage of lawsuits is challenging both the laws and their enforcers… Immigration law remains founded on the notion that immigrants are not full members of American society until they become citizens, writes Professor Kanstroom, who is also a practicing immigration lawyer. The reduced protections in modern-day law were shaped by some of the darker episodes of the 20th century, he writes, including the prosecution of immigrant dissidents, like the Australian union leader Harry Bridges, in the 1930s; and the mass roundups of Mexican workers in the 1950s. Arising from that landscape, the courts that handle immigration cases are part of the Justice Department, not the judiciary. Even immigrants who have lived here legally for many years, lawyers said, can run afoul of the immigration laws with minor infractions or misdemeanors. A late filing of visa renewal papers or a shoplifting citation can quickly spiral into an order for the ultimate penalty: deportation. Immigrants who fight the orders have more limited bail rights than American criminals and can spend years behind bars while their cases inch through the overburdened court system… There are sharp differences among legal experts and law enforcement officials about the limited protections in the immigration laws, many of which have been upheld over the years by the Supreme Court. Officials point out that the majority of the people deported last year entered the country illegally or plainly had lost any claim to legal status, including thousands of convicts. “Immigration law enforcement is all about getting you to where you belong, which is outside the United States,” said Jan C. Ting, a law professor at Temple University who is a former assistant commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the precursor to ICE. He pointed out that immigration laws are civil codes, not criminal. “A lot of constitutional protections that one would normally expect in a criminal case do not necessarily apply,” he said. Professor Ting says ICE agents are well within their authority to question people they come across in the course of a raid, even if they are not its targets, and detain them as suspects. But new legal challenges are seeking to restrain ICE’s powers. A lawsuit in Tennessee challenges raids where agents teamed up with a county sheriff to search trailer parks, forcing their way without warrants into Hispanic immigrants’ homes. In a suit against ICE in Texas, seven citizens and legal immigrants contend their rights were violated in raids last year at Swift & Company meatpacking plants… The basic laws of our country seem to have come as a nasty shock to the legal scholars at the New York Times. Immigration law remains founded on the notion that immigrants are not full members of American society until they become citizens… What an outrage. The reduced protections in modern-day law were shaped by some of the darker episodes of the 20th century, he writes, including the prosecution of immigrant dissidents, like the Australian union leader Harry Bridges, in the 1930s; and the mass roundups of Mexican workers in the 1950s. Would that be Harry Bridges the Communist rabble rouser who was prosecuted by successive Presidents FDR, Truman and Eisenhower for his non-stop union thuggery? And would that horrific ”mass roundup of Mexican workers” be the completely lawful and highly effective “Operation Wetback,” which deported approximately 80,000 Mexican nationals in less than a year? And which convinced another 500,000 - 700,000 illegal aliens to go home? Ah, those were “darker episodes” indeed. We certainly can’t anyone enforcing our nation’s laws, can we? But hopes springs eternal in the breast of the “paper of treason.” With the NYT’s championing, the ALCU and other taxpayer supported 501c3 charities will soon be able to sue away all of those hidebound, pettifogging distinctions like “citizen” or “taxpayer.” After all, there are votes to be harvested for their DNC masters. And to hell with everything else.

A: Hip Hip HOORAY for ICE and it's daring accomplishments in an attempt to enforce the immigration laws already on the books! Until the ACLU starts calling itself the Illegal Civil Liberties Union, I guess they better start supporting AMERICAN CITIZENS first, since we're the ones who's rights are being taken away. Illegal immigrants, by the virtue of their very existance makes whatever they say or do--WRONG.

Q: i need help with american immigration??
ok so im german and i want to know if there is a way for me to get a green card with out getting married to some one. would this work? i have a friend in new york that owns a italian restaurant, if she sends a letter to the immigration saying that my friend is sending a german cook who cooks italian food and wants me for her restaurant would that work? it would be really cool if you gave me some more ideas on what to do please?? do i need a lawyer??

A: Here is the links for employement based immigration. http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=84096138f898d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=4f719c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1323.html http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/perm.cfm

Q: I-751 Immigration Form?
we are not yet divorced but (thats coming very soon...i have moved out already) but IF I FILE IT BY MYSELF BECAUSE MY SPOUSE WAS ABUSIVE, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF GETTING MY PERMANENT RESIDENCY? and does anyone know of a good/reasonably priced divorce lawyer in queens, Brooklyn new york?

A: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=54db96981298d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=4f719c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD in the middle of the page it tells what you need to file. (battered spouse) and all ...

Q: what do u thing about no green card no car?
This 22 year old woman was here since she was 7 years old she has no legal status,has 2 kids and recently was diagnosed with breast and cervical cancer. She entered a raffle at a spanish radio station . The price was a 1999 Corvet donated from a famous Mexican/American singer. The only rule was to be present at time of drawing. Well she won the car but the radio station lawyer told her tha t if she claim her price He will call U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement to get her deported. The radio station is the one that organized the "famous" march of people last year. In a separate incident this month,Toys R Us agreed to award a chinese american infant born in New York a 25,000 prize in a New Year's baby contest after the company was criticized for disqualifying the girl because her mother was (is) an illegal immigrant from china. Do you think the radio station should give this poor woman (now she is in hiding because she is afraid), the car she won? La Ley 107.9 150 N Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 920-9500 she pays taxes she has a special number for IRS so if she pays her share she deserves it(what she won)

A: If citizenship wasn't a rule originally, why would it be now? Plus, wouldn't the donor step in and maybe make sure this happened, seeing as you noted her heritage? I see no reason why the woman should not receive the prize she lawfully won.

Q: To practicing lawyers, can you help me choose a field of law in which to practice?
I am trying to figure out which field in which to start. I'll try anything but I'd prefer something that I MIGHT enjoy. Please tell me what you can about the fields of: Personal Injury Bankruptcy Immigration Family law I pick these fields because they interest me, they have openings in New York City, and I won't need a 2nd grad degree or tons of prior experience. I'd like to have a life and work no more than 50 hours a week (avg) but in a pinch I'd work more. Tell me pros/cons, what the work is like (nice/drudgery), etc. I'm considering Legal Services for the loan repay, hours, benefits but I'll take what I can get. Some background on me: I'm almost forty, I graduated from law school four years ago, and I have been working as a "document review" attorney since then. Prior: I worked in janitorial, special ed, + other menial work. BA in literature and history. I'm a 1st gen. Irish-American, my family and friends aren't connected. I'm trying not to sound ungrateful but I'd appreciate answers that respond to the question I posed not questions that I didn't pose. I never hinted I wanted to be a partner in a law firm.

A: From personal experience - in worst to best order: Family Law can be unnerving. You will be dealing with husbands and wives who want to fight for every last tea bag in a divorce and who use their own kids as tools to get even with the spouse. Clients are extremely needy, ungrateful, and fight with their attorney. According to Illinois licensing commission the family law attorney gets the most complaints filed against them. Tons of ot. Personal Injury is number 2 on the complaints filed against them. The clients are more civilized than in family law (of course a pack of roving wild wolves also are). The biggest problmen in PI work is that you need to work volumes to get any considerable business, which of course means staff. It is a very crowded field, however, if you can get hooked up as a captive for an insurance co -- which means you handle their work for a flat fee for each case -- then you can make good money. Because so many firms go into this you may find yourself 'chasing ambulances' to get clients. Tons of ot. Immigration is a fairly good field. Right now there is lots of work and laws keep changing so there is a lot of new items to keep the job fresh. Downside is the need for interpreters which could be an added expense for your practice. If you locate your office arround an immigration facility you will never be at a loss for clients. Reasonable hours and work. Bankruptcy is still a good field to make money in. Even with all the changes in bankruptcy laws many people are still filing. As the housing bubble continues to bite people in the a## we will see more bankruptcies. Reasonalbe hours, work is more interesting now because of new laws. There are other fields you may want to look at that also do not require a 2nd degree and have reasonable hours. I do employment law for employees and small businesses. There are few over 50 hour weeks. Also working as an attorney in a corporation -- human resources work --- is almost a guaranteed 40 hours. The other suggestion on this board was business law, again that would be for a corporation -- 40 hour work week. On a personal note I was over 40 when I graduated law school. Like you no connections. I did not graduate at the top of the class, somewhere in that comfortable middle. For me a corporate job with that 40 hour work week was not an option -- had offers but hate corp life. I worked as an independant contractor in many law firms in Chicago doing differnt things for several years until I found what I really liked to do -- my own firm doing employment law. You may need to get an actual taste of these different law areas before you can find your passion. While we can tell you how these areas of law effected us, only you can judge how they hit you. Good luck.