With immigration scams on the rise, Chicago Tribune reporter Nereoda Moreno delves into the decades of scams that ride on immigrant’s fears, often cost tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, and result in permanent banishment from the United States. At its core is one phrase: “notario publico.” READ MORE

Day after day, individuals from all over the world download a few forms, fill them out and send them in to the United States Department of Homeland Security, with the hope that a Lawful Permanent Resident Card (the “Green Card”) will show up in the mail a few weeks later.  Immigration Law is not that simple.  Rather, it is a complex system of laws and regulations, where READ MORE READ MORE

I put this blog together to talk to those online about the immigration and deportation system as seen from the eyes of a lawyer.  Daily, lawyers are dealing with the system.  It all starts when a mother with four children walks into my office crying. She tells me that her husband was just picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  She does not know why.  She does READ MORE READ MORE