We are proud to share with our readers another successful case from the Special Projects Department at the Murthy Law Firm. This case came to us with a complicated immigration history. The complexities were created by errors made by immigration "consultants," compounded by further errors...
Last week, President Obama held a much-anticipated meeting with Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC), to discuss the prospects for passing a bipartisan immigration reform bill this year. Senators Schumer and Graham have been working for months to craft a centrist immigration reform...
As if there weren't already enough reasons to make immigration reform a top legislative priority, a recent study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University found that case backlogs at U.S. immigration courts has reached an all-time high of 228,421 cases currently...
Chile continues to dig out after being hit last month by an earthquake of staggering proportions. In view of the devastation, a posting on the USCIS WebSite reminds Chilean expats that they need not return home to a disaster area just yet, because several temporary...
It's almost springtime, mere weeks from the biggest event of Maryland's horseracing season: Baltimore's beloved Preakness Stakes at historic Pimlico Racecourse. With all due respect to this glittering jewel of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes is no match for another high-stakes race soon to...
It has been a long, cold winter in Congress. Elsewhere in the nation, record snowfalls are melting to reveal tender green shoots breaking through the hard-pack, but inside the halls of Congress, a sort of cold war rages on between the Democrats and Republicans. Health...
The news from south of the border has been getting steadily worse, it seems. Violence is rampant, as drug lords compete for dominance of the highly-lucrative drug trade with the United States. Kidnappings are commonplace, and gruesome assassinations have become a fact of everyday life...
Last Thursday, President Obama signed into law the Travel Promotion Act of 2009, a measure designed to boost the U.S. economy and promote job creation by increasing international tourism to the United States. It is specifically aimed at reversing the long downward trend in the...
With spring training underway at ballparks all over the sunny south, baseball fans are champing at the bit, awaiting the first crack of the bat on Opening Day. With less than a month to go before the season opener, major leaguers are working hard to...
Among the nominees for Best Feature Documentary at the 2010 Academy Awards was a film called, Which Way Home. The story chronicles the lives of several immigrant children as they make their way across Mexico on a freight train called "The Beast." Among the immigrants...
