fREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT IMMIGRATION LAW

For many people, navigating the legal process can be confusing. The team at the Law Office of Alexander R. Vail has compiled the following questions and provided answers for you to review to help you understand more about immigration cases and our firm.

GENERAL QUESTIONS

REMOVAL DEFENSE QUESTIONS

FAMILY-BASED IMMIGRATION QUESTIONS

NATURALIZATION QUESTIONS

CRIMINAL DEFENSE QUESTIONS

PERSONAL INJURY QUESTIONS

If you have additional questions about your circumstances, please request a free consultation with the Law Office of Alexander R. Vail. Our team is fluent in both English and Spanish and will be happy to assist you,

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• Family-Based Immigration
• Naturalization
• Criminal Defense
• Personal Injury
• Family Law

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RECENT CASES

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K1 VISA ISSUED & STATUS ADJUSTED TO LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENCE Matter of M.G. (2023)
M.G., is a native and citizen of Haiti, who was engaged to a United States citizen and wanted to know if it would be possible to come to the United States as a fiancé. Alex walked M.G. and her fiancé though the process, explaining the elements that needed to be satisfied first to secure approval of the Petition for Alien Fiancé(e) (“Form I-129F”) and then to secure issuance of the K-1 visa. Alex worked with them to see the process through to completion, and M.G. successfully entered the United States as a K-1 immigrant. Marrying her fiancé within the 90-day period, M.G. and her husband then sought Alex’s assistance on adjusting M.G.’s status to lawful permanent residence. Alex helped them prepare an adjustment of status filing that was sufficient to meet the requirements set out in section 245(a), and the agency found that the filing itself was sufficient to establish M.G.’s eligibility for the benefit sought. Finding an interview unnecessary, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) granted M.G.’s adjustment application. M.G. is now a lawful permanent resident of the United States.

LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENCE STATUS GRANTED Matter of M.M.P. & Matter of A.C.A. (2023)
M.M.P. and A.C.A. are natives and citizens of Mexico who had entered the United States as tourists many decades ago and had long since overstayed their respective authorized periods of stay. They had a United States citizen son in common, and after this son turned twenty-one years of age, they consulted with Alex to see if it would be possible to obtain permanent residence on the basis of a family-petition without having to leave the United States. Alex explained that each was able to apply for adjustment of status under section 245(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) despite having overstayed their respective authorized periods of stay for decades. Many of the grounds of ineligibility set out in section 245(c) of the Act do not apply to “immediate relatives,” and Alex explained that each qualified as an “immediate relative” for immigration law purporses. Accordingly, Alex prepared comprehensive filings for both M.M.P. and A.C.A. that were sufficient to demonstrate statutory eligibility and overcome all the prospective grounds of inadmissibility. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) granted both M.M.P.’s and A.C.A.’s adjustment applications without even having either come in for an interview. M.M.P. and A.C.A. are now lawful permanent residents of the United States.

WHAT I ADMIRE SO MUCH ABOUT ALEX IS HIS HONESTY

“I am originally from China, and I have been a lawful permanent resident of the United States for many years now. I was initially denied citizenship for a very complicated legal reason. Alex has helped make sense of all this to me. He first helped me through the administrative appeal, and when that was not successful, he filed a lawsuit in federal court. What I admire so much about Alex is his honesty through all of this. He explained from the outset that this is going to be an uphill battle. He predicted the denial of the administrative appeal and said that the only place we had a chance of gaining ground is in a federal court. Another thing I really like about Alex is that he shares all of his work product with me. This is why I am able to understand everything that is going on. Everything he files with the court, he shares with me. If I don’t understand something, he explains it well to me. I really feel like a have a champion on my side with Alex as my attorney.” – Client