President Obama’s executive order from November 2014 has just received another legal setback. A three judge panel from the Fifth Circuit in Texas v. United States voted 2 to 1 against the Obama Administration. This allows the injunction of a Texas district court, which prevents the executive...
On November 21, 2014, President Obama announced that he would be issuing an executive order that would defer the deportation of millions of people who do not have legal status to be in the United States. To qualify for deferred action under the executive order, a person must meet the following...
The average wait time to obtain a green card for immediate relatives of a U.S. citizen is usually five months or less. However, over the past year, the wait time has tripled as thousands of families have had to wait over 15 months to lawfully reunite their families. The delays stem from the...
The “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013” is an immigration reform bill that has been received with broad bipartisan support. The bill was negotiated, written, and sponsored by the Senate’s “Gang of Eight”, a bipartisan group of senators committed to...
On June 26, 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court determined in the Windsor case that the section of DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act) that stated, among other things, that same sex couples did not have the legal right to marry, was unconstitutional, the Court opened the door for a U.S. citizen or...
