Carl Shusterman Immigration Lawyer Blog

Immigration Blog

Former INS Attorney Carl Shusterman has been writing an immigration blog on a regular basis since 1996.

US Citizenship
How to Guide

How does a person who is not born in the United States achieve US citizenship? We provide articles and links explaining who is eligible to apply to naturalize to become a US citizen as well as the application procedure including an online, self-correcting history and government test. If one or both of your parents were […]

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3 Recent Supreme Court Immigration Decisions

During May and June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued 3 decisions regarding federal immigration law, each of which severely limits the rights of immigrants to challenge the decisions of government agencies. Particularly concerning is Court’s decision in Patel v. Garland, issued on May 16, 2022 which holds that immigrants can not dispute inaccurate factual […]

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How to Select an Immigration Attorney

Choosing an Immigration Attorney Last Friday was a depressing day. A businessman and his daughter visited me in my office. When I asked how they had learned about our law firm, they said a lot of flattering things about how “famous” we were and about our “great” website. However, when I analyzed their case, it […]

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Green Cards for Caregivers

The number of baby boomers turning 65 years old is rapidly increasing, and, unfortunately, many of them have multiple chronic health conditions ranging from diabetes to dementia. Yet, the supply of caregivers is not keeping pace with the increasing demand for their services. Over 25% of caregivers are foreign-born, yet our broken immigration system does […]

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Asylum Case – How to Increase Your Chances of Winning

It would seem logical that an immigrant fleeing persecution in his country of origin would have as good a chance to have his asylum case granted in one part of the U.S. as in another. The law and regulations governing asylum are do not vary from state to state.  However, this is far from […]

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US Immigration Blog

Attorney Shusterman started his US immigration blog April 2009.  Many of his posts are distributed by Immigration Lawyers on the Web. These posts cover the gamut of immigration issues from legislation pending in Congress to the latest immigration news, the monthly visa bulletins, important court decisions as well as practical advice for employers and foreign-born persons trying […]

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Prosecutorial Discretion is Back!
Who Benefits?

 On May 27, 2021, John Trasviña, the Principal Legal Advisor for ICE, sent a memo to government attorneys enabling them to use prosecutorial discretion to dismiss pending cases in Immigration Court and to refrain from placing certain persons in removal proceedings. This memo could save many thousands of people, perhaps hundreds of thousands, from […]

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Chats with Charlie

If you are interested in knowing how the dates in the Visa Bulletin will advance or retrogress in the future, we are thrilled to tell you about the best way to do so, on the State Department’s new program entitled Chats with Charlie. However, Charlie is retiring from the State Department on December 3, 2021. […]

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How the Dream and Promise Act
Would Help Legal Dreamers

On March 3, the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 (H.R. 6) was introduced in the House of Representatives. The bill would offer a pathway to citizenship not only to the undocumented, but also to thousands of children of parents who came to the U.S. with certain types of temporary working visas, many of […]

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U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021
Impact on Legal Immigration

 The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 was introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R. 1177) and in the Senate in February 2021. Much has been written about how the bill would create a pathway to U.S. citizenship for DACA recipients, TPS holders, H-2A farmworkers and 11 million undocumented persons. The bill also contains provisions […]

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