Austin Immigration Lawyer - Board Certified - Paul Parsons P.C

704 RIO GRANDE
AUSTIN, TX 78701
Hours: Monday-Friday
9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Tel: (512) 477-7887
Fax: (512) 479-6903
Email: parsons@immigrate-usa.com

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Paul Parsons Recognized Among Attorneys Listed In Best Lawyers for Twenty Years or Longer

As of July 30, 2010, Paul Parsons was recognized among a distinguished group of attorneys who have now been listed in Best Lawyers^®for twenty years or longer. He will be included in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^® in the specialty of Immigration Law.

Best Lawyers has been hailed - by both the profession and the public - as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Selection is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey, comprising of more than 3.1 million confidential evaluations by top attorneys. No fee or purchase is required to be listed in Best Lawyers, so inclusion in Best Lawyers is rightly considered a singular honor. Best Lawyers has been regarded by The American Lawyer as "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

Chambers USA honors Paul Parsons P.C. as a "Leader in the Field"

Chambers and Partners announced the selection of Paul Parsons, P.C. as a leader in the field of immigration law and inclusion in its Chambers USA 2010 law firm directory. Chambers USA ranks the leading firms and lawyers in an extensive range of practice areas throughout America. The research is in-depth and client focused, and the guide is read by industry-leading companies and organizations throughout the US and worldwide. It is also widely used by firms in all states for referral purposes.

Law firms and individual lawyers are ranked in bands 1-6, with 1 being the best. Paul Parsons, P.C. is currently ranked as a band 1 practitioner, based on Chambers' assessment of submissions put forward by legal practices, interviews during the course of research, and their own database resources.

Paul Parsons named to Texas Super Lawyers seven consecutive years

MINNEAPOLIS — Nov. 6, 2009: Minneapolis-based Law & Politics, publishers of Super Lawyers magazines, announced that Austin, Texas, immigration attorney Paul Parsons has been named to the 2009 edition of Texas Super Lawyers. Each year, only 5 percent of the lawyers in the state receive this honor. "Paul Parsons has received very high evaluations from his peers on the Super Lawyers’ Blue Ribbon Panel," says Bill White, publisher of Super Lawyers and Law & Politics magazines. "And he was also given high marks from the Super Lawyers research editors."

Parsons was also honored with the Sam Williamson Memorial Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law.

For more information on this selection and award, please refer to the Super Lawyers press release found here.

Paul Parsons receives "Best Lawyers in America" Honor

Paul Parsons has once again been selected by peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Immigration Law. As such, he is one of a distinguished group of attorneys who have been listed in Best Lawyers® for ten years or longer.

For a quarter of a century, Best Lawyers® has been regarded – by both the profession and the public – as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. For selection criteria and more information about the honor, please visit www.bestlawyers.com.

Paul Parsons testimony to TX House Committee: Driver's license regulations misguided, discriminatory

Paul Parsons testified on Tuesday, April 22, 2009, before the House State Affairs Committee in Austin. His testimony explained why placing responsibility on state and local officials to determine citizenship and immigration status is bad public policy. Mr. Parsons indicated that U.S. immigration laws are extremely complicated, and that it takes years for immigration officers with the Department of Homeland Security to learn these frequently changing laws and regulations.

His testimony indicated that:

Under our federal laws, a person can be "out of status" and yet "lawfully present." Another person could be "unlawfully present" one day and approved for U.S. "permanent resident status" the next day. Oklahoma and Arizona recently tried to pass restrictive state immigration-related laws. The outcome has been devastating to the economies of those two states; moreover, those states' laws have resulted in significant discrimination.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has attempted in vain during the past six months to determine who is lawfully present and who is a U.S. citizen among applicants for drivers licenses. They have erroneously turned away many U.S. citizens with valid U.S. passports. The DPS apparently believes that if a U.S. citizen was born abroad, he/she needs to have additional proof of U.S. citizenship. That interpretation is legally incorrect. Even U.S. immigration officials accept an unexpired U.S. passport as proof of citizenship.

The Texas DPS has also erroneously denied drivers licenses to H-1B professionals who have submitted applications for extensions of status. State officials have no training or expertise with immigration & nationality laws. They should defer immigration interpretations and enforcement to immigration officials with our country's Department of Homeland Security.

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