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New Waiver Rules: Keeping Families Together.

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

The newspapers and websites have been full of rumors, half-truths and out-right lies about a new immigration rule change!  The law has not changed; only a procedure.  Because Congress refuses to do its job and reform our immigration laws (just as it refuses to act on anything that requires fixing in this country!), President Obama made this rule change without Congress, because he could…and because it makes sense.

U.S. citizens married to  illegals (who entered the US illegally) can now file their Extreme Hardship Waiver while their illegal spouse stays with the family in the US.  Foreigners who enter the U.S. illegally CANNOT legalize without returning to their home country where they risk not being allowed to come back to the U.S. for 10 years unless a Waiver is approved! The old rule required the foreign spouse to retun to his/her home country and wait for the Waiver there.  The old rule sometimes kept family apart for 12 months or more! 

Click the USCIS site below for more info or send your questions to my office thru our website: NaplesFloridaLawGroup.com.  Or call.  We are always willing to answer a quick question or two at no cost to you.

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Casey Wolff, Esq.

Naples, FL

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GOOD NEWS! Sanity is Slowly Coming to Immigration Reform Via Obama.

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Since the U.S.Congress has failed to amend attrocious immigration laws, President Obama is finally showing some creativity and backbone by changing the “rules” of how certain procedures are handled.  Remember, the law HAS NOT CHANGED!  Only how it is applied.

In the next several months, families made up of US citizens, green card holders and illegals will be able to remain together in the US while “waivers” are adjudicated by the USCIS here in the  US.  The current/old rule requires the illegal to leave the US and remain away from his family for months and months while the USCIS adjudicates his/her “waiver” and the illegal risks being trapped outside the US (away from his/her family) for up to 10 years.  Remember, this “rule” change only changes the location  of where the waiver is filed and approved/denied, and nothing else!

This is complicated stuff.  This is NOT an amnesty so when you hear some blow-hard call it that, just smack him with a newspaper just like you would a bad pet.  (Just kidding PETA.)

Finally, this new rule has NOT passed; it has only been proposed.  Stay tuned to this Blog or feel free to contact my office thru our website.