New Jersey Immigration Lawyer Discusses How an Arrest Can Prevent Citizenship As an experienced New Jersey Immigration Lawyer I was recently asked if a prior arrest could prevent citizenship. In general, if you have a traffic violation including speeding, a minor violation, a misdemeanor or something fairly insignificant, it will also not negatively affect your citizenship…
Morristown Immigration Attorney Discusses Loss of Citizenship from Moving Abroad I was recently asked as a Morristown Immigration Attorney about losing your Green Card because they had to stay outside of the U.S. for over 6 months because of a sick parent. When you have a green card there is a residence requirement. The residency requirement is…
¡Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias! Acción de Gracias es un día feriado nacional de los Estados Unidos en conmemoración de la celebración de los Peregrinos de la cosecha en 1621. La primera celebración de Acción de Gracias fue proclamada por el presidente George Washington como un “día nacional de acción de gracias y oración”…
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is a national U.S. holiday commemorating the Pilgrims’ celebration of the harvest in 1621. The first Thanksgiving was proclaimed by President George Washington as a “national day of thanksgiving and prayer” on November 26, 1789. Thanksgiving, also referred to as “Turkey Day,” has come to be seen as a time to gather…
Morristown Immigration Lawyer Discusses a Past Criminal History Preventing Citizenship I am often asked as a Morristown Immigration Lawyer if prior arrests can prevent you from becoming a U.S. Citizen. If you have traffic violations, traffic tickets, a misdemeanor or something not violent will not usually affect your application for citizenship. I will advise my clients…
New Jersey Immigration Lawyer Discusses the Differences Between a B Visitor Visa and a Visa Waiver Often times as a New Jersey Immigration Lawyer, I have clients ask me about the differences between a B Visitor Waiver and a standard Visa Waiver. First, the visa waiver is a program that is taken advantage by 40 countries…
New Jersey Immigration Lawyer Discusses What You Need to File for Citizenship As an experienced New Jersey Immigration Lawyer I often have clients come to me and enquire how they can obtain citizenship. The first thing that I tell them is that they must already have a Green Card for at least 3 years. An exception…
Morristown Immigration Lawyer Discusses Filing for a Green Card with a Visa Waiver This past month I had several clients as a Morristown Immigration Lawyer with the same scenario: they had entered on a visa waiver instead of a B2 Visitor Visa and they all came to me with the same question: can they extend…
Morristown Family Immigration Attorney Discusses Sponsoring Your Spouse with a 601 Waiver Just this week, a woman came to my office as a Morristown Family Immigration Attorney with her husband, they’d been married many years, and she had a very important question: I’m a citizen, can I sponsor my husband? The only tricky part was that…
Morristown Immigration Lawyer Discusses Family Sponsorship with Different Last Names Fairly recently, someone came to my office as a Morristown Family Immigration Lawyer with a very interesting question: her mother and father were not married and her father’s name was not on her birth certificate. He was a citizen and he wanted to sponsor her.…