President Obama announced on November 20, 2014 his executive actions on immigration which, among others, include the following: outlining his administration's enforcement priorities; expanding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA);  creating a new deferred action program for parents (DAP) of U.S. citizens (USCs) or Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs);   Immigration Court reforms and streamlining, including...Read More

By: Aurora Vega-Buzon, Esq. Rene, a permanent resident since 2002 is in removal (deportation) proceedings. He arrived in the U.S. on March 7, 2002 on an approved petition filed by his permanent resident mother in 1990 for a single adult child. At 28, he and his girlfriend Gina lived together and had 3 children all born...Read More

By: Aurora Vega-Buzon, Esq. Rey, a 58 y/o civilian engineer with the federal government and also a US Navy retiree decides to opt for an early (2nd) retirement and go home to the Philippines. After all, he has been divorced for 2 years from his wife (after 32 years of marriage) and his 2 children are both...Read More

On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court, in the landmark case of United Stated v. Windsor, struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defined “marriage as only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word “spouse’ as referring  only to a person of the...Read More