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Travel Bans and Your Fiancé or Spouse Visa Case: What You Need to Know Right Now Travel Bans and Your Fiancé or Spouse Visa Case: What You Need to Know Right Now If your fiancé or spouse is from one of the countries affected by the current travel restrictions, your immigration case has been impacted in ways that depend on exactly which restriction applies and which visa pathway you are pursuing. The 75-country public charge pause has a K-1 fiancé visa exception. The 39-country national security ban does not. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. explains exactly how each restriction works and what options are still available to affected couples. Read more Back Taxes Could Get Your U.S. Citizenship Application Denied. Here Is What You Need to Know Before You File. Back Taxes Could Get Your U.S. Citizenship Application Denied. Here Is What You Need to Know Before You File. Having an IRS payment plan used to be acceptable in a citizenship case. USCIS treated it as good faith tax compliance and approved applications. That has changed under the current administration. Officers are now denying N-400 applications for applicants with back taxes even when they are on active payment plans and making consistent payments. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. explains exactly what is happening and what every citizenship applicant with any tax history should do before filing. Read more Joint Sponsor or Assets: Which Is Better for Your Affidavit of Support? Joint Sponsor or Assets: Which Is Better for Your Affidavit of Support? If the U.S. petitioner in your green card case does not meet the income requirement, you have two options for the Affidavit of Support. Assets or a joint sponsor. Both work in theory but embassies are getting significantly stricter on public charge right now and asset-based submissions are being refused at a higher rate. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. explains exactly when each option works and why a joint sponsor with regular income is almost always the better choice. Read more DACA and Advanced Parole: What Every DACA Recipient Needs to Know Right Now DACA and Advanced Parole: What Every DACA Recipient Needs to Know Right Now DACA recipients who entered the United States without inspection cannot simply apply for a green card from within the country even if married to a U.S. citizen. Advanced parole and a lawful re-entry can change that. But the current administration has been sitting on these applications for over a year. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. explains the strategic case for still applying and why having advanced parole pending is better than not having it for most recipients. Read more Why Is Your Green Card Renewal Still Pending After Years? Here Is the Real Reason. Why Is Your Green Card Renewal Still Pending After Years? Here Is the Real Reason. Green card renewals are taking two to three years right now and the delays are by design. USCIS issues a receipt notice that automatically extends your status and then removes its own urgency to process the case. The extension is supposed to cover everything but institutions do not always accept it and circumstances change during the long wait. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. explains exactly what is happening and what to do while your renewal is pending. Read more Can You Buy a House in the United States and Get a Green Card? The Real Answer. Can You Buy a House in the United States and Get a Green Card? The Real Answer. The claim that buying property in the United States leads to a visa or green card circulates constantly online, and it is not true. There is no such U.S. immigration program. The real investment-based pathways, the E-2 visa and the EB-5 green card, require active business enterprise and job creation, not passive real estate ownership. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. explains exactly what qualifies, what does not, and what happened to the Trump gold card proposal. Read more What Happened at This Marriage Green Card Interview Should Never Happen to You What Happened at This Marriage Green Card Interview Should Never Happen to You A real marriage green card case was stalled after a husband and wife gave inconsistent answers about their engagement during separate interview sessions. The marriage was genuine. The documentation was strong. But two mismatched details were enough to raise a red flag. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. walks through exactly what went wrong and what every couple must do before their interview to avoid the same outcome. Read more One Word in an Immigration Statement Nearly Destroyed This Person’s Green Card Case One Word in an Immigration Statement Nearly Destroyed This Person’s Green Card Case The difference between detained and arrested is not just semantic in immigration law. It is the difference between an accurate answer and a potential misrepresentation finding. In this real case, an applicant who was politically detained in a dictatorship used the word arrested in their personal statement, creating a contradiction with a prior visa application answer. The statement went out without proper legal review. The consequences are now serious and entirely avoidable. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. breaks down the case and the lesson every applicant needs to hear. Read more Stop What You Are Doing and Check Your Pending Immigration Case for Errors Right Now Stop What You Are Doing and Check Your Pending Immigration Case for Errors Right Now Typos, inconsistent address history, mismatched work history dates, and name variations across prior and current immigration applications are appearing in almost every case reviewed. Under the current administration these errors carry more risk than they ever have, with discrepancies that might once have been handled with a simple clarification now being treated as potential evidence of fraud. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. explains exactly what to look for and what to do this week before USCIS finds the errors first. Read more Can the Government Take Away Your Green Card Because You Have Been Outside the United States Too Long? Can the Government Take Away Your Green Card Because You Have Been Outside the United States Too Long? Lawful permanent residents who spend more than six months outside the United States risk having their permanent residence challenged when they try to re-enter. Beyond a year, that risk increases significantly. The most effective protection is a re-entry permit filed before you leave. Attorney John Khosravi, Esq. explains the full risk, how to prevent it, and what your options are if you are already outside too long. Read more
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