Mexican Consulates Will Issue Birth Certificates…Starting Today!
A longtime struggle for many Mexican citizens living in the United States is the inability to access their birth records. Some may have been born in a state where they no longer have contacts and they struggle to acquire their birth certificate. In practice, this...
This Veterans Day
The flags are up again. Not as many as there are around July 4th or Memorial Day, but there are some. The news outlets have ramped up coverage: stories abound about military families and at memorials around the country veterans groups mark this day with ceremonies,...
The New Provisional Waiver – A Promising Program Foundering
For a year we waited for USCIS to put into effect changes it had discussed in processing the needed waiver for the 10 year bar found in INA § 212(a)(9)(B) for those people married to U.S. Citizens who had entered the United States without inspection. The announcement...
The Need For A Realistic Pathway to Citizenship
We are witnessing the most robust debate in more than a generation on how to reform our antiquated immigration laws to meet the demands of our twenty-first century economic and security needs. In coming up with a broad framework for this comprehensive legislation, we...
Waivers and AILA’s Fall Conference in Montreal
The AILA fall conference in Montreal this September is not just about foreign travel and Canadian/French food and wine. Those are important of course, but only a part of the equation. In fact, the fall conference is going to offer something unique, something AILA has...
March Sadness
Originally posted on Huffington Post "Where's your Green Card! Where's your Green Card! Where's your Green Card!..." That was the despicable taunt that met Kansas State point guard Angel Rodriguez during the first-round NCAA tournament game between Kansas State...
Immigration 101 in Nursery Rhyme
Written by: Mo Goldman, AILA Media-Advocacy Committee Watching the Florida Republican Primary Debates this week again demonstrated that these final four candidates simply refuse to understand the dynamics of our draconian immigration system. Perhaps they just don’t...
Who Won The Republican Debate Last Night?
A few days ago while channel surfing, I discovered “Me TV” the “Memorable Entertainment Network” which runs such classics as “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, “The Mary Tyler More Show”, “M*A*S*H", and “The Bob Newhart Show” to name a few. So I faced a hard choice last night;...
One Down, 300 Million More To Go
Donald Trump isn’t satisfied with the President’s production of his original birth certificate. And I suspect others in the “birther” movement won’t be either. Trump chose his words carefully today, leaving plenty of wiggle room to keep his “birther” rant alive. "I...
MSU* on Steroids
In an announcement of a report released today, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) declares that “[n]early 200,000 children are estimated to have been born to women lawfully admitted as temporary visitors from all over the world in 2009.” The report then goes on...
