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Website Update – 7/21/2024
Initially, one of the main goals for this website was to monitor the visa bulletin charts for SIJ cases. With our transition to Docketwise, which now tracks our cases and priority dates, this function is no longer necessary. As a result, this blog can now be repurposed for other uses.
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Teaching Kids for an AI Future
Nothing ignites my creativity quite like walking. This morning, as I walked, I pondered the best ways to prepare my kids for the future. My thoughts wandered back to my law school days, when I used to watch Naruto during my downtime. One scene that has stuck with me for over a decade is when Rock Lee drops his weights when fighting Gaara. I thought to myself, “Hmm, this is an interesting concept.” Rock Lee had his mentor, Guy Sensei, but Guy Sensei wasn’t always with him. So, Rock Lee’s optimal strategy was to train his physical body since he didn’t have a “tailed beast” inside him and Guy Sensei…
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SIJ – June 2024 – Final Action Date – November 1, 2020
The visa bulletin for June 2024 has been posted. The priority date for all chargeability areas is November 1, 2020
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SIJ – September 2023 – Final Action Date – September 1, 2018
The visa bulletin for September of 2023 has been posted. The priority date for all chargeability areas except for those listed is September 1, 2018. In February of 2022, the priority date was March 15, 2019. However, in March of 2022, the priority date regressed to June 15, 2017. I believed that the June 15, 2017 was an arbitrary number to show that visa numbers were unavailable. Previously, the visa bulletin would say “unavailable” but that led to some confusion as some people mistakenly believed that the entire preference category was removed and “unavailable” permanently. In October of 2022, the date for final action for employment-based fourth preference is March…
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SIJ – July 2023 – Final Action Date – September 1, 2018
The visa bulletin for July of 2023 has been posted. The priority date for all chargeability areas except for those listed is September 1, 2018. In February of 2022, the priority date was March 15, 2019. However, in March of 2022, the priority date regressed to June 15, 2017. I believed that the June 15, 2017 was an arbitrary number to show that visa numbers were unavailable. Previously, the visa bulletin would say “unavailable” but that led to some confusion as some people mistakenly believed that the entire preference category was removed and “unavailable” permanently. In October of 2022, the date for final action for employment-based fourth preference is March…
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ChatGPT
So I got a chance to show ChatGPT to my son. Question: Where does India keep its Nuclear Weapons ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not have access to classified information, and it is not appropriate to speculate or make assumptions about the location of any country’s nuclear weapons. However, it is widely believed that India operates under a “no first use” policy and maintains a policy of strategic ambiguity about the location of its nuclear weapons. India’s nuclear program and strategy are governed by the Nuclear Command Authority, which is responsible for overseeing the country’s nuclear arsenal. Question: What are some of the biggest secrets in the…
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17 Minutes – Cancellation of Removal
How do you measure success as an immigration attorney? Is it the same way as how someone would measure a year? Five hundred, twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes or is it something deeper. We recently appeared before an Immigration Judge and our case for cancellation of removal from start to finish took approximately 17 minutes of court time. As a matter of context, for some people without legal immigration status in the United States, cancellation of removal is a form of relief that may be available if certain requirements are met. Those requirements include being physically present in the United States for a continuous period of not less than…
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SIJ – December 2022 – No Movement
The visa bulletin for December of 2022 has been posted. Unfortunately, there is no movement for the SIJ category, which is listed under the employment-based fourth preference, for applicants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. In December of 2022, the date for final action for employment-based fourth preference is March 15, 2018, which is the same exact date as listed in the October of 2022 visa bulletin. I think USCIS recognizes this problem and has taken steps to address the potential wait time. Indeed, USCIS has done at least 2 things to make the wait more bearable. First, in March of 2022, USCIS published a final rule in the Federal…
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Slapjack
Yesterday, I played slapjack with my six-year-old daughter. Uno, Hai, Tres, Bon, Cinco, … l was counting with my beginner’s Spanish and she was counting with her beginner’s Vietnamese. Jack, Queen and King were in English since we both didn’t know how to say those words in our respective chosen language. I did not understand Vietnamese and she did not understand Spanish. So it was difficult for both of us to not only keep track of the sequence of numbers but also say the correct numbers in a different language. We laughed as we struggled to prevail. Afterwards, my daughter grabbed my phone to use Google Translate. She wanted to…
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SIJ – November 2022 – No Movement
The visa bulletin for November of 2022 has been posted. Unfortunately, there is no movement for the SIJ category, which is listed under the employment-based fourth preference, for applicants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. In November of 2022, the date for final action for employment-based fourth preference is March 15, 2018, which is the same exact date as listed in the October of 2022 visa bulletin. I think USCIS recognizes this problem and has taken steps to address the potential wait time. Indeed, USCIS has done at least 2 things to make the wait more bearable. First, in March of 2022, USCIS published a final rule in the Federal…