Your health condition requires you to take medication, but experience showed you that you must do your part to prevent medication errors. No matter how much you trust your new doctor or pharmacist, you cannot be too careful. It may help to get a breakdown of how...
Federal courts must entertain challenges to USCIS visa denials – a published win by KKTP!
Our firm was proud to represent the plaintiffs in Canal A Media v. USCIS, a recent decision from a federal appeals court. The case involves complex questions of what is called “jurisdiction”—a court’s power to consider a party’s claims in immigration cases. This case...
The return of administrative closure in removal proceedings!
For the past three decades, immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals have used a tool known as “administrative closure” to temporarily remove cases from their dockets when the noncitizen was pursuing other forms of relief or immigration benefits with a...
Important things to remember when applying for a fiancé visa, and when applying to become a lawful permanent resident
In this case, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), which is kind of like the “Supreme Court of Immigration Judges,” held that a noncitizen who conspires to engage in marriage fraud to obtain a K-1 fiancé visa is barred from obtaining an immigration visa petition...
What you should know about the recent decision on DREAMers
On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court made its ruling on a case regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The decision states that the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Obama-era program was mishandled, and therefore, unlawful....
About 20% of serious medical conditions misdiagnosed
You depend on your doctor to be able to tell you what is wrong and determine a course of treatment, but doctors, like everyone else, are prone to making mistakes. When physicians fail to diagnose your condition or diagnose it too late, though, the repercussions may...
