Xiaojuan Carrie Huang Law Blog

If an immigration judge (IJ) granted you permanent residence during immigration court proceedings or you were granted permanent residence by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and you have not yet received your green card, please schedule an appointment with your local U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office. You can make an appointment through http://infopass.uscis.gov/.

Wait at least 3 days after the judge or BIA... Read More

An H-1B visa holder intended to take a cruise trip to Mexico with his family. His only concern is that the H-1B visa is expired even though his I-94 is still valid. Can he take the trip and return to the United States without a valid visa? The answer is that he may be able to re-enter the United States under the automatic revalidation provision of immigration law.

What Is Automatic Revalidation?

Under the automatic revalidation provision of immigration law,... Read More

Affidavits are widely used in immigration cases. In many cases, affidavits can be submitted in connection with an immigration petition. For example, in marriage based immigration petition, affidavits of third parties are often submitted to prove the bona fide marital relationship between petitioner and the alien.

What is an affidavit?

An affidavit is a declaration or statement in writing made by a person who has personal knowledge of certain facts. Affidavits... Read More

An alien (no not the kind from outer space) and a U.S. citizen have fallen in love and gotten married. The desire to obtain permanent residency in the United States is followed by filing a marriage based immigration petition. After all the paperwork is accepted, an interview date is set by USCIS to take place at a local USCIS office.

Horrors! As you can imagine, horror stories about the interview are everywhere – spoken by other people, written on the web, and even immortalized... Read More