Attorney Robert Pascal | Immigration Attorney

Attorney Robert Pascal, and the Law Office of Robert Pascal,  would like to remind you that If you planning to file a petition with the USCIS , you should be aware that there will be an increase in filing fees effective December 23, 2016.   For example, an I-130 for a family member will be increased from $420 to $535, and an N-400 Application for US citizenship will be increased from $595.00 to $640.00.    These are just a few examples of the fee increases that will virtually effect all petition filings. If you are contemplating the filing of any petition, please do so by December 22, 2016.   Any petition postmarked by the 23 rd will still be eligible for current fee schedule. Also, anyone filing after December 23, 2016,   without payment of the increased fee will have their petition rejected and mail back to them with the request for the increased filing fee. You can check out the new filing fees by following this link to the USCIS webs...

This article provides basic information related to an EB-5 Investor visa and its benefits. For those investors with $500,000.00 US to $1,000,000.00 US, they may be able to obtain Permanent Residency in the US in less than three years. There are two monetary investment options for the investor. For those individuals willing to invest in an area defined by the USCIS as a “targeted employment area”, the required investment is $500,000.00 US. A “targeted employment area” is an area that, at the time of investment, is a rural area or an area experiencing unemployment of at least 150 percent of the national average rate. This can also include a rural area outside a metropolitan statistical area (as designated by the Office of Management and Budget) or outside the boundary of any city or town having a population of 20,000 or more according to the decennial census.   Individuals can also seek a “TEA” designation if not already defined by the USCIS. For all others investing o...

How to Preserve Us Residency during Extended Absences with a Re-Entry Permit Attorney Robert Pascal regularly asked by his clients who are LPR’s (Lawful Permanent Residents) , how their residency status would be affected if they had to leave the US for a year or longer due to their employment, family or health issues and what they would need to do to protect their permanent residency status. This article will discuss those issues and recommendations to best protect permanent residency status. First of all, being a lawful permanent resident means you have to physically reside in the USA. You are allowed to travel outside of the US, but need to be aware that residency can be jeopardized in certain situations for absences for six months or longer. An extended absence from the US for a period of greater than six months but less than a year creates a “rebuttable presumption” that you are intending to abandon your US residency.  This means that you will ne...

After preparing and filing my client’s N-400 applications for US citizenship , Robert Pascal am then asked what they should do to prepare for the actual citizenship interview. I actually spend a couple of hours with each of my client’s before the actual interview and conduct an intensive practice session to identify their strengths and weaknesses.  Although every client is different, Attorney Robert Pascal going to give you a general set of guidelines to help you prepare. These are as follows: 1. Get to the Service center at least 30 minutes before your scheduled interview. The last thing you need aside from the nervousness you may feel is to be running late to the interview. Take a test drive by the Service center before the day of the interview so you exactly know where it is and the time it will take for you to arrive there. 2. Do not forget to bring any original documents along with a copy for the USCIS Officer. At the minimum this will require bringi...