There are a lot of items that go into a marriage-based adjustment of status application - also called a green card application. If you are handling the process yourself it can be very stressful to ensure that you are including…
When you are preparing an application for US Citizenship and Immigration Services do you need to provide original documents? The short answer is generally no - under current rules you are allowed to provide copies with your initial packet. If you…
Running a business comes with a lot of paperwork. Businesses have to worry about licenses, taxes, rules and regulation. But did you know that businesses are also required to screen their employees for valid immigration status? More specifically, businesses are required to ensure…
Your law firm already has a website, but it doesn’t perform particularly well, and you would like it to be bringing in more new clients. On top of that, there are dozens of other law firms in your area all…
This piece originally appeared as an article in the Washington State Bar Association's NW Lawyer magazine. Most of us are now familiar with “daily deal” websites such as Groupon and Living Social, which sell steeply discounted vouchers for goods…
Today's attorneys are exhorted to move beyond the billable hour and embrace flat fee billing. But two Washington attorneys have taken this evolution a big step further. Brett Sullivan and Spencer Stromberg created Lucent Law around the idea that legal services…
McLawsen Tower. McLawsen Grand Casino. McLawsen Steaks? My own surname doesn’t lend quite the right panache. Not that I didn’t have the opportunity. When my wife and I got married during grad school we reengineered our last name (merging Walsen…
This post contains the written materials for our webinar on Immigration and Adoption 101. Our speaker is Gretchen Korb-Nice, a Washington attorney at Holman Cahill who assists clients with domestic adoptions in Washington State and with international adoptions from across…
Several time per week I get a question that comes something like this: I'm a U.S. citizen and my wife is from China [or insert any other country. She has a visitor's visa and is planning to come to the…
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is the primary authority for U.S. immigration law, codified at Title 8 United States Code. Immigration practitioners customarily cite directly to the INA rather than to its code counterpart and do not provide parallel…