by Nadia Zaiem | Jul 7, 2020 | news
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) recently made two significant changes to its rules regarding work permits for those seeking asylum in the U.S. First and most significantly, USCIS changed who is eligible to apply for a work permit based on a pending...
by Nadia Zaiem | Jul 7, 2020 | news
In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program is for noncitizens brought to the United States as children. It protects recipients from removal, or deportation, from the United...
by RaslanPla | Oct 3, 2018 | immigration
On October 2, 2018, in a precedential opinion, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the right to effective assistance of counsel in a criminal case extends to the plea-bargaining process under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution. The Court ruled an...
