President Biden’s Immigration Changes
Updated January 2021. View Earlier Posts: Trump Era Immigration | Obama Era Immigration What changes has Biden proposed? What problems exist? What options do aliens have? This is a general overview. Schedule a consultation if you need legal advice. What’s written here can’t be relevant unless I know your [...]
Client and Lawyer: Win-Win or No Deal
In general, competition harms more than helps A client and attorney must fully cooperate - never compete The primary factor in any legal representation What client and lawyer must agree to Hiring a bad lawyer makes a client's life pretty miserable. And lawyers don't like handling difficult clients. The bottom [...]
The Immigration Era of Trump
Options for illegal alien have become very limited. The law hasn’t changed, the agency regulations have. Aliens must place their long-term reliance upon another Constitutional element. What options exist currently? Here’s one example. Before Trump, an alien who’d entered without inspection who was married to a US citizen (1) could [...]
Obama’s November 2014 Executive Action
"If you want to test a man’s character, give him power" - Abraham Lincoln "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him." - Proverbs 26:4 In November 2014, a Republican Senate was elected. Obama then announced some “Executive” actions: a. Deferred action for [...]
Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. - John Adams I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens [...]
ILW’s Consular Posts Book and Aila’s Consular Handbook
My wife and I were shopping for shoes one day. She walks over to me with a pair of black slip-ons. They're on sale, she says, and they're her size; but they feel a little tight. "They'll probably loosen up as I wear them," she says. Luckily, she always listens [...]
Tips for a Better Immigration Law Practice
Laziness is the mother of efficiency. - Marian Propp To do two things at once is to do neither. - Publius Syrus It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. - Mary O'Connor Law is a very time consuming [...]
Why Most People Hate Lawyers
Why do medical research labs now use lawyers instead of rats? Answer: Because lawyers do things that rats won't do…. And because lawyers multiply faster than rats. What is slothful waste? Answer: A busload of lawyers going over a cliff, and there's one empty seat. Why don't immigration lawyers go [...]
Robert Divine’s Immigration Practice
A lawyer without books is like a workman without tools. - Thomas Jefferson There are all sorts of books of which the backs and covers are the best parts. -Charles Dickens A good book is opened with expectation and closed with profit. - Amos Bronson Alcott The Lawyer's Curse [...]
The Midnight Society
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. - James Madison [...]
The State of the Current Law (A Bloody Mess)
Immigration lawyers - private and government - pull their hair out because the laws they have to work with are glaringly inadequate. Barak Obama promised comprehensive immigration reform, but then got into office and instead hammered a questionable and expensive health care bill into law. This formidable error delivered enough [...]