Carl Shusterman Immigration Lawyer Blog

September 2011 Visa Bulletin: Dead on Arrival

For immigrants seeking green cards, September is the cruelest month. This is because it is the final month of the federal fiscal year and most of the 226,000 family-based and the 140,000 employment-based green card numbers have already been used up. By the time that September rolls around, the “patient” is practically dead on arrival. […]

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Air Force Sergeant’s Wife’s Immigration Nightmare

  Attorney Amy Prokop, Karina Magana, Staff Sgt. Luis Magana, and Attorney Carl Shusterman “Carl Shusterman and his team are simply the best representation a person can get. Attorney Amy and Carl were always available to provide support and advice. They were always on top of my case and provided prompt updates. Their knowledge about […]

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Shusterman’s Newsletter US Immigration August 2011

Volume Sixteen, Number Eight Special Message: With increased privacy and security concerns mostly due to viruses and spam, delivering our monthly newsletter to your e-mail address presents many challenges. If you add our e-mail address to your address book or safe list, this should insure that our newsletter will not end up in your junk […]

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New Circuit Court Decisions on CSPA Hold Promise

While we await the decisions of the 5th and the 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals in the “automatic conversion” cases, two other circuits have issued decisions on other sections of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) which reject the government’s restrictive interpretations. On July 19, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the government in […]

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Is CSPA Controversy Headed for the Supreme Court?

Congress passed the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) in 2002 to prevent children from becoming separated from their immigrant parents after waiting for many years for their papers to be processed and their priority dates to become current. Prior to CSPA, even if a child was an infant when his family was sponsored for green […]

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Newsletter US Immigration July 2011

Volume Sixteen, Number Seven Special Message: With increased privacy and security concerns mostly due to viruses and spam, delivering our monthly newsletter to your e-mail address presents many challenges. If you add our e-mail address to your address book or safe list, this should insure that our newsletter will not end up in your junk […]

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USCIS Social Media
Good Information, but Hard to Find

I suspect that most of you use the USCIS website. After all, it gets about 30 million page views a month. But did you know about the USCIS’ Social Media? USCIS has a newsletter, a blog, YouTube videos, and numerous RSS feeds. If not, apparently you are not alone. Take their three excellent E-Verify videos, all uploaded […]

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Newsletter US Immigration Update June 2011

Volume Sixteen, Number Six Special Message: With increased privacy and security concerns mostly due to viruses and spam, delivering our monthly newsletter to your e-mail address presents many challenges. If you add our e-mail address to your address book or safe list, this should insure that our newsletter will not end up in your junk […]

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CSPA: Oral Arguments in the 2nd Circuit

On May 12, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York heard oral arguments regarding a case challenging the government’s restrictive interpretation of the CSPA’s “automatic conversion” clause. Both Attorney Scott Bratton and the Assistant U.S. Attorney were given ten minutes each to present their arguments. Scott was […]

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Newsletter US Immigration Update May 2011

Volume Sixteen, Number Five Special Message: With increased privacy and security concerns mostly due to viruses and spam, delivering our monthly newsletter to your e-mail address presents many challenges. If you add our e-mail address to your address book or safe list, this should insure that our newsletter will not end up in your junk […]

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