Dear Atty. Lou,
We need your help.  I am currently in the United States on an H1-B visa, with my husband on H-4.  We have been approved for an extension for another 3 years, after the initial 3 years passed. 
We would like to know if there are any other options for our case after the current 3 [...]

Opinion: Millie Anne M.L. Sumcad*
On January 6, 2012, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a proposal to change the processing of I-601 hardship waivers for a spouse or child of a US citizen who will undergo immigrant visa processing abroad. Although this will affect mostly citizens of Mexico and Canada, it will also affect citizens [...]

Dear Atty. Lou,
My question is on the U.S. visa application under the Visa Reissuance Program (VRP) of the U.S. Embassy in Manila. Is this the same as the dropboxing of passport for visa reissuance? Please clarify. Also, the rule says that an applicant should not have overstayed in the US beyond 6 months.  Is the [...]

Dear Atty. Lou,
I was one of the media specialists who were terminated as part of the school’s reduction in force at the end of the school year 2010-2011 in the Maryland school district. I submitted an H1B visa extension in November 2010 since my visa will expire on July 30, 2011. At the end of [...]

With U.S. presidential election coming up next year, the issue of immigration reform, which was President Obama’s campaign promise to Latinos and other immigrant voters, never came to fruition. It is sad that while immigration policy has not changed to reform the broken system, more than one million individuals were deported to their homeland in [...]

Dear Atty. Lou,
My spouse and I together with our child came here in the United States as immigrants. We’ve been happily married for years now until a couple of days ago she confessed that long time ago she was previously married in the Philippines to a US immigrant who was in the process of applying for citizenship, the guy’s citizenship and [...]

Dear Atty. Lou,
I got married to a US citizen and he filed a petition for me. Before our marriage, I was already out of status for two years. When my B2 visa expired, I did not leave the US. I met my husband through the internet and that we get along very well. When [...]

Dear Atty. Lou,
I have a fifteen-year-old grandson who is a green card holder but has been sent back by his mother to study here in Cebu.  Now the mother likes her son to go back to the United States inasmuch as he is now old enough to be left at home by himself while she [...]

For a child who plans to migrate to the United States, turning twenty-one years old maybe a dreaded phase. This is the age where the child is no longer considered a derivative beneficiary of a parent for purposes of petitioning.
Several exceptions were created to the aging out rule by the enactment in 2002 of the [...]

Dear Atty. Lou,
I am one of the Prince George County teachers in Maryland. Our employer violated Department of Labor rules and so our H1B visas were terminated. I filed for a change of status to B2 visa since my H1B expired last July 31.  I just want to inquire on the following: (1) I am [...]