Expedited Naturalization: Not just for military families

Feldman Feldman & Associates is pleased to announce that their Associate Danielle Rosché has achieved a rare type of naturalization for her client, the wife of a US businessman living overseas.  Normally, the spouse of a US citizen must live in the US as a legal permanent resident for three years before they become eligible […]

Options for H-1B Applicants Not Selected in the Lottery

This year USCIS received approximately  172,000 applications for 85,000 H-1B visas (65,000 in the Bachelor’s cap and 25,000 in the Master’s cap).  Needless to say, the H-1B category is terribly oversubscribed and H-1B applicants not selected in the lottery are often left scrambling to find a suitable option to maintain lawful status in the United […]

FFA Featured as a Top Immigration Law Firm in California

Feldman Feldman & Associates was recently featured on Buzz Feed as one of the top 10 law firms in California! Here is the link to the list. Thank you to all of our clients who nominated us as one of the top immigration law firms in the survey done by Buzz Feed. We greatly appreciate […]

Michigan’s Radical Immigration Proposal

The Governor of Michigan unleashed his proposal to revitalize the city of Detroit through “smart immigrants”. The governor wants to attract 50,000 individuals with advanced degrees or exceptional abilities in the sciences, arts, or business over the next 5 years. The city of Detroit is destitute and on life-support. Such an influx of educated foreign […]

NEW N-400 FORM IS A MIXED BAG

USCIS has released a new form N-400 used to apply for citizenship as part of their continuing initiative to add barcodes to allow the information on the forms submitted to be easily scanned into their systems.  The new form is more than double the length of the prior forms so is surely going to be […]

Possible Deportation for Justin Bieber?

Early on the morning of January 23rd Justin Bieber was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida and charged with driving with an expired license, resisting arrest without violence, and driving under the influence.  Later that day his bond was announced as $2,500 which he quickly posted and was released from detention.  While normally a traffic violation […]

Time to Prepare for any 2014 H-1b Visa Applications

On April 1st, 2014 employers can apply for foreign nationals they wish to sponsor for an H-1b visa. These applications would be for a start date of October 1st, 2014. An applicant is eligible for an H-1b visa if they will be performing work in a “specialty occupation” and the Beneficiary (the foreign national) has […]

Undocumented Immigrants Eligible for Admission to California State Bar

The California Supreme Court recently concluded that Sergio C. Garcia, an undocumented immigrant who applied for admission to the State Bar of California, was eligible for admission to the State Bar.  The Court’s decision rested largely on Governor Jerry Brown having recently signed into law a provision which allows undocumented immigrants to obtain professional licenses […]

Executive Office For Immigration Review launches a Facebook Page

The Executive Office for Immigration Review (“EOIR”) has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/doj.eoir. Unfortunately you have to “like” the page in order to get updates. We here at FFA “like” getting updates from the EOIR but certainly don’t like many of their decisions, policies, or backlogs that keep clients from getting hearings for years when there is relief […]

Obama Meets with Fasting Immigration Protestors

After months, or perhaps more accurately years of inaction by Congress, a group of protestors have given up all substance to motivate Congress to act on immigration reform. Obama met with the protestors at the National Mall on Friday and has praised them in his speeches indicating: They are “sacrificing themselves in an effort to […]