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Bringing Your Child Home After International Adoption
Contributor: Van T. Doan
International adoption is both rewarding and challenging. The reward, of course, is getting to welcome a child into your family. The challenges include completing all necessary immigration filings and processes so that your child obtains lawful perma…
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What to Know About Alien Registration Requirements
Contributor: Van T. Doan
On January, 20, 2025, the first day of his term, Donald Trump signed an executive order called “Protecting the American People Against Invasion.” As part of this executive order, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was directed to enforce c…
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The Child Status Protection Act: September 2024 Update
When parents immigrate to the United States, their children are eligible to immigrate with them under certain circumstances. But the term “child” has a very specific meaning as far as the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)…
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Categories: Immigration Law
New Classes of Admission for Surviving Spouses and Children of Afghan and Iraqi Special Immigrants
Some Iraqis and Afghans who enter the United States do so as refugees, but others do not. Instead, they are admitted to the country based on service to the United States Armed Forces, typically as a translator or an interpreter. These individuals may…
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Special Immigrant Juvenile Status: an Overview
Children without the care of a parent, and undocumented immigrants, are among the most vulnerable people who encounter the American court system. Most vulnerable of all are abused, abandoned, or neglected children who are undocumented and subject to…
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Biden Administration Grants Temporary Protected Status to Ukrainians and Afghans in U.S.
Over the past several weeks, most of the world has watched in horror at footage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In less than a month, millions of Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries in search of safety. For Ukrainians who came to live t…
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Temporary Protected Status
Over 700,000 immigrants who came to the United States from a dozen other countries have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). As the name suggests, TPS is a temporary status available…
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President Biden Reverses Trump Rule Requiring Immigrant Health Insurance
President Biden has struck down a Trump-era rule requiring immigrants to prove that they would have health insurance shortly after entering the United States. The reversal has removed a barrier to entry for as many as two-thirds of potential immigran…
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Vangala v. USCIS: End of the “No Blank Space Rejection Policy”
Under the Trump administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) adopted an agency policy that targeted humanitarian benefits for asylum seekers and survivors of violent crimes such as domestic violence. The policy, known as the “N…
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Refugee vs. Asylum Seeker: What’s the Difference?
Contributor: Van T. Doan
With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the news for more than a year, the public’s attention has been diverted from other important issues, such as people fleeing their native countries to seek a better life in the United States as a refugee or asyl…
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