Carina, Sabina, Amparo and Emily filed a federal civil rights suit this week against the men they claim plotted to have their father, Salvador “Bubby” Dacer, kidnapped, tortured and killed on November 24, 2000. The heinous murder occurred in the Philippines but the suit was filed in San Francisco just a [...]

RP’s first bachelor President is in the US, his first working overseas trip. Welcome to America, the biggest province of the Philippines because it has Pinoy population bigger than Cavite, RP’s largest inland province.
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Prez P-noy is in America with the Who’s Who in Philippine business.
In support, the Lopez group’s ABS-CBN Global,  is holding a town-hall meeting [...]

Diehard Democrats returned the attention Edmund Gerald “Jerry” Brown gave them when he was governor by holding the first major FilAm fund raiser for the attorney general and Democratic candidate for governor of California. Brown, 72, has raised about $3 million while his opponent, Republican candidate Meg Whitman, has poured over $100 million of [...]

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s insecurity got the better of him lately and he is blowing it away.
Because he is an undefeated boxing world champion, Mr. Mayweather feels that his only enemy is himself and nobody else.
He does not want that someone else, like Manny Pacquiao, would be knocking at his door, and threatening to wrest that [...]

Lately, we have been reading disturbing reports of Filipino workers being recruited in the Philippines purportedly for good-paying jobs in the United States and Canada, only to find themselves exploited and abused by unscrupulous recruiters on a distant shore where they feel hopeless and helpless. And I thought slavery was abolished after a bloody civil [...]

A young mother with small children wrote a letter to Ann Landers.  She left her husband because he did something stupid.  Ann wrote back:  “Don’t be stubborn and proud.  Take him back.  I promise you won’t regret it.”  Eight years later, Ann received a letter.  The letter thanked Ann for her advice to take her [...]

Dear Atty. Lou,
My cousin Anne had a denied adjustment of status application. Before their interview, she separated from his US citizen spouse because of emotional and verbal abuse . His husband refused to appear for the interview and my cousin Anne went out of State without notifying the US Citizenship and Immigration Service of her [...]

Ang taong 1965 ay isang angkop na panandang-bato sa pagbabalik-aral natin sa kasaysayan ng Filipino immigration sa Amerika.  May dalawang mahalagang pangyayari kaugnay sa katayuan ng mga Pilipino na naganap noong 1965.  Ito ang Delano Grape Strike na nagsimula noong Setyembre 8, 1965 at ang pagpapatibay ng Immigration and Nationality Act sa Kongreso ng Amerika [...]

Question:    When may a self petitioner under VAWA file an adjustment of status?
Answer:    A self petitioner who married an abusive U.S. citizen may file an adjustment of status at the same time that the self petition is filed.  If the spouse of the self petitioner is a lawful permanent resident she will have to wait [...]

Question: What is the Visa Bulletin?
Answer: The Visa Bulletin provides us the priority dates for Family Petitions.  For example, if you are a United States citizen and you have filed for a green card for your brother, it usually takes 22 years (12 for other countries; 22 for Filipinos) for your brother to be able [...]