I recently finished my first semester of teaching at Brooklyn Law School as an adjunct professor of law. I taught a course once a week for two hours. I created the course and it was called Immigration Workshop: Deportation Defense. I enjoyed teaching at Brooklyn Law School this semester. Helping to make better immigration lawyers in New York City is something that is very important to me. I was very impressed with the work that my students did on their final projects. I hope that my students will be able to find jobs as immigration lawyers because I believe that they will all be great attorneys. I have been asked by Brooklyn Law School to teach again. I am very happy that I will be able to continue teaching at Brooklyn Law School. My course will be offered again in the Spring Semester.
Client with Final Order of Removal Granted Adjustment of Status
Several months ago, I did a consultation with someone who had a removal order from an immigration judge in 2000 and wanted to get a green card. He had been through several immigration lawyers and paid thousands of dollars in legal fees without any success. Upon review of his file, I discovered that before he was in removal proceedings, he had traveled on advance parole. Due to an interesting technicality in the immigration laws, an alien who is paroled into the United States can seek adjustment of status before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, even if they have a final order of removal before an immigration judge. Today, he was granted a green card based upon the paperwork that I filed for him. After years of living in fear of being deported, he is now a lawful permanent resident.
I Spoke at the NY AILA Chapter’s CLE Presentation on Crimmigration
Yesterday, I was on a panel of lawyers that spoke at a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) presentation for the NY Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). The presentation was called “Crimmigration – Both Sides Now.” Crimmigration is an area of immigration law that involves representing non-citizens with criminal history. I spoke the things an immigration attorney should discuss with a criminal lawyer when trying to figure out the possible immigration consequence of a plea offer. I also discussed how an immigration lawyer should work with a criminal lawyer, when a non-citizen has a conviction that needs to be vacated. Because I have done so much work with non-citizens with criminal history during my career as an immigration attorney, the NY Chapter of AILA invited me to speak on this subject.
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