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Margolis & Gallagher Law will soon be opening  a new office in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Stay tuned for details as they develop.

  WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for eligible nationals of Somalia (and eligible individuals without nationality who last habitually resided in Somalia) for an additional 18 months, effective Sept. 18, 2015, through March 17, 2017. Current TPS Somalia beneficiaries seeking to extend their TPS must re-register during the […]

    The Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card is now available in the USCIS Electronic Immigration System (USCIS ELIS). USCIS ELIS is an online, account-based system that allows you to submit and view certain immigration benefit requests and receive electronic notification of decisions and real-time case status updates. USCIS conducted a 72-hour […]

Immigration is doing good things for the Michigan economy. According to an economic forecast for the region, Washtenaw County could add more than 13,000 jobs by 2017, many of which will be high-paying jobs in the knowledge economy. To read more about this, please follow the bellow link:  http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/03/washtenaw_county_population_on.html#incart_m-rpt-2

Immigration is doing good things for the Michigan economy. According to an economic forecast for the region, Washtenaw County could add more than 13,000 jobs by 2017, many of which will be high-paying jobs in the knowledge economy. To read more about this, please follow the bellow link:  http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/03/washtenaw_county_population_on.html#incart_m-rpt-2

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted Petitioner Aso Pola an evidentiary hearing on his ineffective assistance of counsel claim. To read the case in its entirety, please follow the below link: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-6th-circuit/1692655.html

On June 15, 2012, former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano issued a memorandum announcing that DHS will offer deferred action for two years to certain young people who came to the United States as children and meet other eligibility criteria. Individuals who receive deferred action will not be placed into removal proceedings […]

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_memo_prosecutorial_discretion.pdf

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_memo_secure_communities.pdf

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_memo_secure_communities.pdf