Deportation Defense: When you attend a removal or deportation hearing before an Immigration Judge, make sure you go to the courtroom with the most experienced and knowledgeable deportation defense attorney you can find. Why? Because the government will be represented by an attorney who has appeared in hundreds of deportation hearings.I know – I am […]
If you have been convicted of an aggravated felony (AF), you could be deported. Being convicted of an AF has dire consequences under federal immigration laws. This made sense in the 1980s when the term referred only to murder, federal drug trafficking, and illicit trafficking of firearms and destructive devices. Today, an AF need not be […]
A section 212c waiver allows certain long time green card holders who have been placed in removal proceedings because they were convicted of a criminal offense to avoid being deported. Congress repealed former section 212(c) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act effective April 1, 1997. However, the United States Supreme Court decided in 2001 that […]
