Here is a good summary of K-1 Fiance Visas: Overview: What Is a K-1 Fiance Visa? The fiancé(e) K-1 nonimmigrant visa is for the foreign-citizen fiancé(e) of a United States (U.S.) citizen. The K-1 visa permits the foreign-citizen fiancé(e) to travel to the United States and marry his or her U.S. citizen sponsor within 90 days of arrival. The foreign-citizen will then apply for adjustment of status to a permanent resident (LPR) with the Department of Homeland

Here is an excerpt from my upcoming article in the Johnson County BarLetter: On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced that he would take “executive action” to significantly expand the Administration’s 2012 Deferred Action program.  This expansion extends “protection from deportation” and other benefits to over one-third of the approximately eleven million individuals living in the United States without immigration status.  The program may represent the most significant change to immigration enforcement in the last

Thanks to Validity Screening Solutions for coordinating my upcoming Webinar!   Workplace Effects of the Recent Executive Order on Immigration Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:00 pm CST Register now by clicking HERE This webinar will explain the elements of the President’s wide-reaching November 2014 Executive Order, paying particular attention to the fact that it allows millions of potential employees to legally work in the United States.  It will explain the program’s requirements, discuss practical issues that employers and human

I have found that the following website contains quite a bit of useful immigration information: https://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/legalresources/practice_advisories/pa_D

Here is a portion of an article on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that I recently wrote for the Johnson County Bar Letter.  The full text can be found here:  https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.jocobar.org/resource/resmgr/JoCoBar_summer2014-web.pdf On June 15, 2012, a significant change to immigration law occurred when Janet Napolitano, Secretary of DHS, issued a memorandum titled “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children.”  The memo was directed to three sub-agencies of