Family Litigation Articles

SGG in the News https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/la-1549076260-0ia2g7ihsm-snap-image.jpg 800 450 Andrew Grzegorek Andrew Grzegorek https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/04e1b23b6e5b9057556a3c6cabe3c843?s=96&d=mm&r=g February 8, 2019 June 4, 2019

Andrew Grzegorek
February 8, 2019

SGG in the News

On February 1, 2019, Nora Phillips, a lawyer at the forefront of providing legal services to asylum seekers and deportees in Tijuana, was detained and deported by Mexican authorities for reasons that the Mexican government has yet to specify. At 11:30AM, when the call went out to immigration attorneys in Los Angeles that Nora was…

Ninth Circuit Rejects Collateral Attack on Removal Orders https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gavel.jpg 132 93 Amy Lenhert Amy Lenhert https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c1197c6ec0a5eb3eed80e2b4382e662a?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 24, 2019 June 4, 2019

Amy Lenhert
January 24, 2019

Ninth Circuit Rejects Collateral Attack on Removal Orders

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently published a decision upholding convictions for illegal reentry after removal despite the fact that the defendants were no longer removable as charged in their administrative proceedings. USA v. Martinez-Hernandez involves two men, Jose and Oscar, who entered the United States without authorization at a young age. …

USCIS Intensifies Focus on Denaturalization https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/U.S._Citizenship_and_Immigration_Service-e1479248211302.jpg 3423 2743 Andrew Grzegorek Andrew Grzegorek https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/04e1b23b6e5b9057556a3c6cabe3c843?s=96&d=mm&r=g December 14, 2018 June 4, 2019

Andrew Grzegorek
December 14, 2018

USCIS Intensifies Focus on Denaturalization

Many people think that once they obtain U.S. citizenship through naturalization, their status as a U.S. citizen can never be lost. It will come as a surprise to some to learn that U.S. citizenship can in fact be taken away or revoked by the government under certain circumstances. And the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services…

Obtaining a Waiver to the Trump Travel Ban https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Trump-Travel-Ban-Sept-25-2017.jpg 768 604 David Strashnoy David Strashnoy https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/18dd3c89a276f63d4a48ef8334e53490?s=96&d=mm&r=g December 14, 2018 June 4, 2019

David Strashnoy
December 14, 2018

Obtaining a Waiver to the Trump Travel Ban

On June 26, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of Travel Ban 3.0 in its consideration of Trump v. Hawaii. Travel Ban 3.0 indefinitely restricts and/or suspends travel of individuals from the following countries to the United States: Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. A waiver may be granted to…

Detention of Minors: The lasting impact of Flores v. Reno https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/supreme-court-scalia-nomination.jpg 4200 2400 Amy Lenhert Amy Lenhert https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c1197c6ec0a5eb3eed80e2b4382e662a?s=96&d=mm&r=g December 14, 2018 June 4, 2019

Amy Lenhert
December 14, 2018

Detention of Minors: The lasting impact of Flores v. Reno

Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced a so-called “zero tolerance” policy on illegal entry into the United States, requiring the criminal prosecution of all individuals who enter the United States without authorization. The results of this draconian policy were cruel and severe. Thousands of children were forcibly separated from parents with no thought given…

SGG Fights Recent Changes to Asylum Policies https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Logo-cutout-with-border.jpg 244 302 Taiyyeba Safri Skomra Taiyyeba Safri Skomra https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e6c8bb0d0b258b56e2b10f6d2b487e6?s=96&d=mm&r=g December 14, 2018 June 4, 2019

Taiyyeba Safri Skomra
December 14, 2018

SGG Fights Recent Changes to Asylum Policies

In August 2014, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a decision that allowed a woman to seek asylum based on the years of extreme domestic violence she suffered. That violence rose to the level of persecution, and it was on account of her membership in a particular social group of married Guatemalan women who were…

Court Order Temporarily Halts Termination of TPS https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gavel.jpg 254 177 Amy Lenhert Amy Lenhert https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c1197c6ec0a5eb3eed80e2b4382e662a?s=96&d=mm&r=g December 14, 2018 June 4, 2019

Amy Lenhert
December 14, 2018

Court Order Temporarily Halts Termination of TPS

On October 3, 2018, a federal judge in Northern California issued an order temporarily halting the government’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Haiti, Sudan and Nicaragua. TPS for these countries is set to terminate on various dates in 2018 and 2019; the earliest being Sudan which was set to terminate…