Law Office of Bonnie Stern Wasser

11/08/2022

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Still need to register? You can visit your county elections office until 8 p.m. tonight to register and vote.

County elections office contact info: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/auditors.aspx
¿Todavía necesita registrarse? Puede visitar la oficina electoral de su condado abierta hasta las 8 p.m. de esta noche para registrarse y votar.

Información para contactar la oficina electoral del condado: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/auditors.aspx
仍然需要登記？您可以在今晚8點之前前往您所在縣的選舉辦公室進行登記並投票。

縣選舉辦公室聯絡資訊： https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/auditors.aspx
Quý vị vẫn cần đăng ký? Quý vị có thể đến văn phòng bầu cử tại quận của mình trước 8 giờ tối nay để đăng ký và bỏ phiếu.

Thông tin liên hệ của văn phòng bầu cử quận: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/auditors.aspx

11/07/2022

Not sure who to vote for? Ballot pamphlets about Washington State Candidates and referenda in multiple languages can be found here. https://voter.votewa.gov/GenericVoterGuide.aspx?e=877&c=99 #/ . See language tab in the upper right.

11/07/2022

In Washington State, you can track your ballot. It can take a few days from the day you mail it or deposit it in a voter box. Click on the "Ballot Status" link on the left side AFTER you enter in your personal information on this page:

11/07/2022

Don't forget to vote especially if you are a new citizen! The deadline for voting in Washington State is 8pm on November 8. If you haven't registered to vote yet, you still can, but you'll have to do it at your local voting office in person, which you can find here: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/auditors/default.aspx . You can register up to November 8 and also vote while you're at the office until 8pm. (See language tab, upper right of that page.)

The Secretary of State is the state's chief elections officer, chief corporations officer, and supervisor of the State Archives and State Library.

10/11/2021

10/10/2021

There will be actions all over the state on Monday 10/11.

Our stories, our suffering, and our successes have been used in Democratic campaigns, always paired with promises of citizenship. And for 35 years, those promises have been broken.

Immigrants got Democrats elected. Immigrants got us through the pandemic. Immigrants deserve more.

Join us in the streets this coming Monday, October 11th, to urge Congress to pass ! Find an action near you: bit.ly/keepyourpromise21

09/20/2021

It looks like the Parlimentarian is not going to approve the Dems’ path to citizenship components of the reconciliation bill. Boo. That means we have to fight harder and try other strategies.

Senate Democrats likely will not be able to include a pathway to legalization for millions of immigrants in their $3.5 trillion bill to expand the country's social safety net after new guidance from the Senate parliamentarian Sunday night.

07/17/2021

Please take action today! Please contact your Senators and ask them to vote for The DREAM act and related bills to preserve DACA and to put people in a path to meaningful residence and citizenship status. Use this link and customize your message why they should do this. Tell your personal story or those of people you care about.

06/10/2021

Listening to the panel from the DHS/USCIS ombudsman's office at the AILA National Conference. The ombudsman is not part of USCIS specifically. People often contact them after frustrations and lack of results from USCIS customer service options (and you must try those options first before getting help from the ombudsman, which is an office of last resort). The ombudsman reported inquiries to them have increased 160% since this time last year. This is from a combination of COVID and office closures/fewer cases handled due to social distancing, the 10/2020 Visa Bulletin quota rush for Indian/Chinese employment cases, other trends (and the last administration grinding things to the ground). The theme across all the panels today has been about the backlogs in all categories. So, if you think your case is taking too long, you are not along. This office also looks at problem trends and makes recommendations for operational and policy improvements to USCIS.

06/10/2021

USCIS panel at the annual American Immigration Lawyers Association conference discussing how they plan to reduce backlogs "holistically" through people, technology, processes and policies. They plan to update how they show processing times on their website, improve the MyUSCIS online filing system and more.

06/10/2021

Alejandro Mayorkas, DHS Secretary, is speaking at the Annual American Immigration Lawyers Association conference and has a couple of bold new moves planned: Integration of (government) immigration lawyers into the USCIS workforce, use of emails and the telephone to deal with issues v. snail mail RFEs/responses that delay adjudications. More to follow.

05/14/2021

Glad to know International Entrepreneur Parole is back on. After listening to a brief USCIS engagement, I sure have a lot of questions that they need to iron out. USCIS will be hosting some upcoming webinars next month. In the meantime, are you an entrepreneur that can RAPIDLY create jobs in the USA or create significant innovation? I'm curious about how attractive this sounds to entrepreneurs given the status is parole, which is a legal fiction and not an admission to the USA. It is not a visa or green card. It may be useful to people who don't qualify for E visas or EB-5 investor green cards. There is an initial 2-year status followed by a 2.5 year extension. It's also discretionary, decided case by case. Spouses can get work permits. Hopefully, in that time period Congress could come up with a more formal start up visa.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today that the Department of Homeland Security is withdrawing a 2018 notice of proposed rulemaking that proposed to remove the International Entrepreneur program from DHS regulations.