Equally significant, USCIS officers often scrutinize naturalization applicant’s actions, like a failure to pay child support, use of publc benefits, inaccurate tax returns, or completion of probation, beyond the most recent five years.
The inadmissibility list includes certain diseases, criminal convictions, memberships in certain organizations, past history of immigration fraud, living unlawfully in the U.S., and drug trafficking.
Restraining Order
Even mere allegations of certain types of convictions and past restraining orders might become major barriers to obtaining naturalized citizenship status.
Naturalization And Citizenship – Once you become our client, we do not consider our work to be finished until you reach the final frontier of American immigration law, U.S. citizenship.
Family Immigration
Every immigration client is more than a case in a folder. Each application for family immigration benefits, permanent residence, citizenship, or asylum has a connection to human beings seeking to better their lives.
Green Cards
Student Visas
In general, adjustment of status refers to the process of changing from a nonimmigrant visa, such as a tourist or student visa, to a green card, or permanent residency. To be eligible for adjustment of status, an individual must be physically present in the United States and meet eligibility requirements. (Under certain conditions, immigrants who have overstayed their visas or entered without permission may qualify.)
Family Visas
Family Visas – At the Riverside Immigration Law Offices of Carlos Batara, we often work with clients who are seeking to bring their family members to the United States or trying to reunite with loved ones who are already here.
Work Visas
“I came to the U.S on a work visa. When I got divorced, my papers were cancelled. I was too afraid to ask anyone for help. I lived like this for 15 years.
Removal Defense
Because of the special rules and procedures, helping clients fight their appeals is the most challenging part of deportation and removal defense services – and the most important for immigrants who have already lost their cases.