When the Trump administration announced its “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration last April, Charles Foster predicted the chaos that would ensure. As an immigration adviser to George W. Bush and Barack Obama and chairman of Americans for Immigration Reform, the McAllen native and Houston-based lawyer has tried to guide […]
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Immigrants who are legally in the country and have applied to become U.S. citizens are having to wait as much as 20 months for their applications to be processed. Since President Donald Trump was elected, the backlog of pending applications has “skyrocketed,” according to NBC News. There were nearly 730,000 […]
USCIS Policy Change on RFE’s and Starting Removal “Deportation” Proceedings
24 Jul
by Foster LLP, on Immigration Updates
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued two new Policy Memoranda that change the way the agency will approach the issuance of Requests for Further Evidence (RFE), Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID), and Notices to Appear (NTA) initiating removal (“deportation”) proceedings. These changes will have an impact on […]
Life’s not always fair. There’s nothing like two decades of immigration law practice to hammer that home. Even so, while we know life’s circumstances are not always fair, we do expect a certain sense of fair play in U.S. government adjudications. But we are in danger of seeing that precious […]