Law Office of Margaret R. Knight

01/17/2022

“Simply put, COVID has changed how our lives and careers ‘go’ and we’ve all had to adapt…things have changed so much…and they keep changing.” READ more from on about COVID and removal proceedings:

Removal Proceedings in the Time of COVID Posted by Jonathan Willmoth | Jan 13, 2022 I sit here writing from my basement/home-office recovering from my own bout of COVID. Just days ago, I was at the Immigration Court, where I appeared with my client and her children. She was placed in the queue for C...

01/16/2022

"Chinese New Year, also referred to as the Spring Festival, celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that typically appears between January 21st and February 20th (which is why Chinese New Year is also called Lunar New Year) and celebrations continue over the next 15 days. It’s a major holiday in mainland China and just one of several Lunar New Years across Asia, including the Seollal in South Korea, the Losar of Tibet and Imlek in Indonesia. It is also celebrated worldwide in Asian diaspora—more than 20% of the world’s population, or almost 2 billion people, celebrate Lunar New Year."

This is the Year of the Tiger; Let’s Start 2022 with Courage and Compassion Posted by Evangeline Chan | Jan 12, 2022 With the Omicron variant casting a shadow over New Year’s and all of us feeling very “Spring 2020”, it is easy to forget that we have actually started a new calendar year. But...

01/05/2022

Check out our latest video about how to fill out Form I-912, Request for Fee waiver, in Spanish!

Learn how to fill out Form I-912, Application for Fee Waiver.

01/03/2022

Check out our latest video on how to fill out Form I-912, Request for Fee Waiver (English).

Learn how to fill out Form I-912, Application for Fee Waiver.

01/01/2022

12/31/2021

"The United States will make 20,000 additional visas available for seasonal, non-agricultural guest workers through March 31, including 6,500 visas for workers from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti, in an effort to encourage legal migration, a U.S. official told Reuters."

The United States will make 20,000 additional visas available for seasonal, non-agricultural guest workers through March 31, including 6,500 visas for workers from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti, in an effort to encourage legal migration, a U.S. official told Reuters.

12/30/2021

"The Biden administration has turned its three migrant family detention centers into facilities for single adults, appearing to halt for now the practice of detaining parents with their children.

The move comes as the Department of Homeland Security increasingly uses alternatives to detention, such as ankle monitors and home visits, to track people released into the U.S. as their immigration cases move forward. The agency’s Alternatives to Detention programs are monitoring more than 145,000 people as of this month — an amount nearly doubled from two years ago — according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan research center at Syracuse University."

The Biden administration has apparently halted for now the practice of holding migrant parents with their children at three ICE detention centers.

12/29/2021

"The Department of Homeland Security is asking the public for help to stop the federal government from ever again using family separation as a tactic against undocumented migrants, issuing an open request for recommendations."

The Department of Homeland Security is asking the public for help to stop the federal government from ever again using family separation as a tactic against undocumented migrants, issuing an open request for recommendations.

12/28/2021

Border Report reports that migrants who seek to claim asylum have a greater chance of succeeding if they live in certain parts of the country, according to a new study. TRAC at Syracuse University analyzed six years’ worth of asylum decisions from immigration courts nationwide and found the asylum denial rate tended to be lower in immigration courts in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, and Arlington, VA.

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Migrants seeking to claim asylum have a greater chance of succeeding if they live in certain parts of the country, according to a new study. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syr…

12/25/2021

12/18/2021

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12/16/2021

USCIS announced that it will automatically extend parole and employment authorization for parolees who timely applied for Commonwealth of the North Mariana Islands (CNMI) long-term resident status. This applies to parolees who filed Form I-955 and I-765, and whose applications remain pending on December 30, 2021.

USCIS announced today that it will automatically extend parole and employment authorization, if applicable, for parolees who timely applied for Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) long-term resident status.