Immigration Law Articles
A Success Story: Saving A Battered Spouse From Deportation
A Success Story: Saving A Battered Spouse From Deportation February 2010 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law In November of 2008, a divorced woman...
Amnesty: Are We There Yet?
Amnesty: Are We There Yet? February 2010 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law Where is a magic mirror when you need one? Much of the...
Applying for US Citizenship
Applying for US Citizenship July 2011 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law Becoming a U.S. citizen is a dream for many immigrants to the...
Are you healthy enough to be a Legal Permanent Resident of the United States?
Are you healthy enough to be a Legal Permanent Resident of the United States? March 29, 2013 - By Nayef Mubarak The law defines all...
Asylum -- For Those Who Migrate in the Cause of God
Asylum -- For Those Who Migrate in the Cause of God July 2015 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law ~Speak up for those who...
Before you start Celebrating - Maintaining Your Permanent Residency
Before you start Celebrating - Maintaining Your Permanent Residency Published on January 2012 | By Shahzad Ahmed - Orlando Immigration Attorney with NeJame Law So...
Caught in the Middle: The Major Shift in Administrative Closure
Caught in the Middle: The Major Shift in Administrative Closure Published on April 2019| By Kenneth Ejene - Orlando Immigration Attorney The pendulum shift of...
Criminal Convictions And Immigration Consequences
Criminal Convictions And Immigration Consequences December 2010 - ByRajan Joshi If a person is not a United States Citizen, a criminal conviction can subject them...
Crossing Borders for Love
Crossing Borders for Love February 2011 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law As our world becomes more and more intertwined, the romantic metaphor of crossing...
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: What Notaries Do Not Know!
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: What Notaries Do Not Know! August 2012 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law The trend is definitely there: Every year,...
E-2 Visa: Multiple Paths to Permanent Residency
E-2 Visa: Multiple Paths to Permanent Residency September 6 2017 - ByUS Immigration Attorney Yazen Abdin with NeJame Law While thousands of foreign nationals apply...
EB-5 Visa - Investing Your Way To A Green Card
EB-5 Visa - Investing Your Way To A Green Card November 2011 Now more than ever, with the slowdown of the global economy, investors from...
EB-5 Visas: Investing to Permanent Residency
EB-5 Visas: Investing to Permanent Residency October 2010 During this time of economic challenges, any immigration policy must make economic and political sense. One such...
Family Petitions: Being a Parent in a Visa Petition
Family Petitions: Being a Parent in a Visa Petition Published on July 2010 | By Shahzad Ahmed - US Immigration Attorney with NeJame Law Happy...
Gaslighting: can it be extreme enough for VAWA?
Gaslighting: can it be extreme enough for VAWA? Published on February 2019 | By Mark NeJame - Orlando Litigation Attorney and Rosa Melia-Acevedo As an...
House Passes Bill to Deport Unauthorized Immigrants Charged with Minor Crimes
House Passes Bill to Deport Unauthorized Immigrants Charged with Minor Crimes Published on January 13, 2025 The recent passage of a bill targeting undocumented immigrants...
Immigration Policy and the Immigrant Communities
Immigration Policy and the Immigrant Communities Published on January 4 2009 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law ~Remember, remember always, that all of us,...
Immigration Under Trump: Part 1
Immigration Under Trump: Part 1 -Extreme Vetting: What it means and what you can do Posted November 29, 2017 In October of 2017, President Trump...
Immigration Under Trump: Part 2
Immigration Under Trump: Part 2 -Beating the Travel Ban Posted January 23, 2018 | By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law In our previous article, we...
Immigration Under Trump: Part 3
Immigration Under Trump: Part 3 -Preserving your Family’s Immigration Posted February 8, 2018 - ByShahzad Ahmed With NeJame Law This series of articles is designed...
Immigration Under Trump: Part 4
Immigration Under Trump: Part 4 How to handle the Travel Ban after the Supreme Court ruling Posted July 11, 2018 - ByShahzad Ahmed With NeJame...
Immigration Under Trump: Part 5
Immigration Under Trump: Part 5 -Will your child be a US citizen? Posted July 11, 2018 - By Shahzad Ahmed With NeJame Law In a...
Is ICE Being NICE? The True Impact Of Obama's Immigration Policy
Is ICE Being NICE? The True Impact Of Obama's Immigration Policy August 2011 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law Ever since the announcement by...
Keeping The DREAM Alive: A Glimmer Of Hope For The Undocumented Youth!
Keeping The DREAM Alive: A Glimmer Of Hope For The Undocumented Youth! June 2012 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law On June 15, 2012,...
More Restrictions For Our Religious Workers
More Restrictions For Our Religious Workers December 2010 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law No one is exempt from the complexities of our immigration laws....
New Immigration Change: Renewing Permanent Resident Cards without an Expiration Date
New Immigration Change: Renewing Permanent Resident Cards without an Expiration Date November 8, 2007 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a new rule that will...
New Investor Visa - E-2 CNMI Investor Visa
New Investor Visa - E-2 CNMI Investor Visa January 2011 - By Orlando Immigration Attorney with NeJame Law U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has...
New USCIS Policy on the Unlawful Presence 3/10 year bar – F-1, J-1 and M-1 visa holders
New USCIS Policy on the Unlawful Presence 3/10 year bar – F-1, J-1 and M-1 visa holders Posted July 25, 2018 - ByShahzad Ahmed With...
Now Hiring: Highly Skilled Foreigners Need Not Apply
Now Hiring: Highly Skilled Foreigners Need Not Apply Published on May 2018 | By Mark NeJame - Orlando Litigation Attorney and Rosa Melia-Acevedo As I...
Overview of Your Rights Under Immigration Law
Overview of Your Rights Under Immigration Law July 17, 2017 - By Yazen Abdin with NeJame Law; Zubair Dawood Contibuted to this article. Immigration laws...
Planning Your Trip to the Caribbean
Planning Your Trip to the Caribbean November 2010 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law Traveling to the Caribbean is as simple as buying an airline...
Seeking Asylum: Land of the Free for the Asylee
Seeking Asylum: Land of the Free for the Asylee Published on January 7, 2017 | By Rosa Melia-Acevedo On the cusp of a new U.S....
Spotlight on Immigration Law
Spotlight on Immigration Law Published on November 2018 | By Mark NeJame - Orlando Litigation Attorney; Yazen Abdin contributed to this article. For better or...
Success Story - Overcoming Marriage Fraud Issues
Success Story - Overcoming Marriage Fraud Issues February 2010 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law She finally discovered Mr. Right. She met him in an...
Taking the Hate Out of Immigration
Taking the Hate Out of Immigration August 2015 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law ~ Let not the hatred of any people swerve you from...
Temporary Protected Status For Haitians
Temporary Protected Status For Haitians February 2010 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law Following the devastation from the January earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. Department...
The "O"ther Visa
The "O"ther Visa Posted in October 2011 One often overlooked visa for professionals or those with advanced skills is the "O" visa. The O visa...
The Art of Presenting your EB-5 Petition
The Art of Presenting your EB-5 Petition Posted on February 5, 2018 Since EB-5 petitioners invest a great deal of wait-time and wealth into their...
The B-2 Option - Your Family'\''s Visit To The U.S.
The B-2 Option - Your Family's Visit To The U.S. May 2011 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law For those who have immigrated to...
The E-2 Investor Visa
The E-2 Investor Visa Posted in August 2015 The E-2 visa is an investor visa for nationals of those countries that have a treaty of...
The Executive Orders and your Deportation Defense
The Executive Orders and your Deportation Defense Posted on March 15, 2017 On February 17, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two...
The H-1B Visa: Background & UPDATES
The H-1B Visa: Background & UPDATES March 2010 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law The H-1B Visa is a valuable employment-based petition. This article seeks...
The L-1 Visa: Transferring From Your Foreign Business To a U.S. Office
The L-1 Visa: Transferring From Your Foreign Business To a U.S. Office August 2011 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law Foreign Business Owners: U.S....
The Provisional Waiver is Here!
The Provisional Waiver is Here! Published on April 2013 | By Shahzad Ahmed - Orlando Immigration Attorney with NeJame Law [Background: Traditionally, if a foreign...
Tis the Season for Holiday Wishes, and Hopefully Much More for DREAM(ers)
Tis the Season for Holiday Wishes, and Hopefully Much More for DREAM(ers) A look into the controversial DREAM Act January 2013 - By Nayef Mubarak...
Travel and Visa ban for Nationals of Certain Countries: Advisory and Tips
Travel and Visa ban for Nationals of Certain Countries: Advisory and Tips Published on January 30, 2017 | By Shahzad Ahmed- Immigration Attorney with NeJame...
Travel Warning for Nationals of Certain Countries
Travel Warning for Nationals of Certain Countries FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE January 26, 2017 As the former Regional Vice-chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association...
What Is SB 1070; Why Is It Understandable, Yet Wrong; And What is the Solution
What Is SB 1070; Why Is It Understandable, Yet Wrong; And What is the Solution October 2012 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law With...
What's Missing from Immigration Debate?
What's Missing from Immigration Debate? February 2010 What is missing from today's immigration debate? A simple concept that should not be foreign to anyone's human...
Your L-1 Visa Petition: Preventing and Surviving the Request For Evidence (or Notice of Intent to Deny)
Your L-1 Visa Petition: Preventing and Surviving the Request For Evidence (or Notice of Intent to Deny) May 2013 - By Shahzad Ahmed with NeJame...
Your Taxes and Immigration Consequences
Your Taxes and Immigration Consequences March 2011 - ByShahzad Ahmed with NeJame Law It is that time of year again . . . to pay...















