Saldana Collins Law Firm, PLLC

05/29/2026

Un clima de profunda incertidumbre se ha extendido entre la comunidad de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. El Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de los Estados Unidos (USCIS) ha comenzado a implementar un nuevo interrogatorio a los solicitantes de re...

05/29/2026

Alerta: En redes sociales está circulando un nuevo video que afirma que Estados Unidos tiene un plan migratorio que otorgaría estatus legal por cinco años a inmigrantes sin antecedentes penales, evitando deportaciones y permitiéndoles trabajar legalmente. Esto es falso.

05/27/2026

05/22/2026

Everything is delayed. Long processing times.

USCIS faces a massive backlog of 11.6 million immigration cases, leaving green card applicants and others in limbo as processing times become unpredictable.

05/22/2026

The additions come after the ouster of dozens of immigration judges across the country by the Trump administration over the past year.

05/22/2026

Today’s news!

USCIS formally issued policy guidance stating that Adjustment of Status is an “extraordinary” form of relief and should not replace the normal consular immigrant visa process.

What does that mean?

Individuals who entered the U.S. on temporary visas or parole may be expected to return to their home country for immigrant visa processing instead of applying for a Green Card here in the United States.

People this could affect are people who entered on:
-B-1/B-2 visitor visas
- F-1 student visas
- H-1B work visas
- J-1 exchange visas
- L-1 visas
- O visas
- TN visas
- P visas
- H-2A/H-2B visas
…and certain parole programs.

The memo instructs officers to consider:
▪️ whether the person was expected to depart the U.S. after their temporary stay
▪️ whether they violated the terms of their visa
▪️ whether they could have completed consular processing abroad instead
▪️ whether they are truly deserving of a favorable exercise of discretion

USCIS appears to be preparing officers to apply stricter discretionary review in many Adjustment of Status cases.

This does NOT automatically mean all marriage-based or immediate relative adjustment cases will be denied but cases will need to have strong evidence of why the case is deserving of favorable discretion and an applicant should understand the risks.

As lawyers we are still processing this news and what it means to our clients and our pending cases. We do not know how this will affect our service members with military parole in place. We do know lawsuits will likely follow.

05/22/2026

05/22/2026

Every week we wait for the next blow from this administration and here we go again.

USCIS is applying long-standing law and prior court decisions to require certain aliens with temporary visas who decide they want to permanently reside in the U.S. to return to their home countries to apply for permanent visas through the U.S. Department of State.

We're returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly.

Here’s what you should know: https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-will-grant-adjustment-of-status-only-in-extraordinary

05/11/2026

La abogada en inmigración Martha Arias, aclara en N+ Univision, las consecuencias de aceptar una salida voluntaria frente a una orden de deportación formal. Mientras la deportación genera castigos de hasta 20 años, la salida voluntaria permite al inmigr...

01/19/2026

Just a reminder we are closed tomorrow in observance of Martin Luther King Jr day. We will be back in the office on Tuesday, January 20.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail,
April 16, 1963.