When applying for a visa or green card, it can be an exhaustive, stressful and emotional process. Getting approved for a visa or green card can take upwards of 10 years. It is a long and sometimes frustrating procedure. One way we can speed the process up is by getting a clinical evaluation. A clinical […]
Your waiver can be accompanied by several important documents. Your waiver application can be supported by evidence submitted by an experienced immigration attorney. If you are not in the United States with them or if they have to leave the country, the qualifying relative should draft a statement outlining all the reasons they will suffer […]
As you can guess from the name, post-migration depression is a mental health condition that affects migrants as they adjust to a new culture and environment. Almost everywhere in the world, people face these challenges as they try to assimilate into a new culture. What are the symptoms of post-immigration depression? Culture shock: Culture shock […]
Generally, conversations about caring for parents begin later in life. Children of immigrants, however, tend to care for their parents across generations and stages of life. Since immigrants represent one-eighth of the U.S. population and children of immigrants represent one in four children in the country, it is critical to understand the immense barriers immigrants […]
Changes to the Asylum Process due to COVID-19 In response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control suspended the “introduction” of persons from “Coronavirus Impacted Areas.” Citing this authority, the Border Patrol began “expelling” individuals who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without providing them with an opportunity to request asylum. CBP reported […]
PTSD and mental health problems are significantly more common among refugees and asylum seekers than among the general population, compatriots who remain in the refugees’ home country, and economic migrants. Exposure to a high number of potentially traumatic events, involvement in asylum-seeking procedures and forced migration are stressors that set refugees apart from other populations […]
Is There a Deadline for Asylum Applications? Generally, an individual must apply for asylum within one year of arriving in the United States. In 2018, a federal district court ruled that DHS must notify asylum seekers of this deadline in a class-action lawsuit challenging the government’s failure to provide adequate notice of the one-year deadline […]
An individual may apply for asylum in the United States in two ways: affirmatively or defensively. Affirmative Asylum: A person who is not in removal proceedings may apply for asylum through the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) (DHS). If the USCIS asylum officer denies the application and the applicant does […]
Applicants petitioning for political asylum type of immigration waiver often have been exposed to extreme deprivation, severe abuse, and possibly even torture in their home country. Frequently, these mistreatments are related to a political, religious, and/or ethnic persecution. Living your life in your home country becomes sufficiently intolerable or painful, that the individual flees his […]
Asylum is a form of protection that allows an individual to remain in the United States rather than be removed (deported) to a country where he or she fears persecution or harm. People who flee their countries for fear of persecution can apply for asylum in the United States. If they are granted asylum, they […]
