Our Austin immigration law firm specializes on representing U.S. citizens seeking permanent resident status for their spouses, parents, and children and on seeking U.S. citizenship (naturalization) for people who already hold green cards. We often handle cases to remove two year “conditional” limits from green cards obtained through marriage. We frequently represent applicants who need to renew or replace expiring, lost, or stolen green cards. Other family sponsored matters we handle include adjustment of status, consular processing for relatives needing green card interviews at U.S. consulates abroad, K-1 fiancée visas, and reentry permits for green card holders needing to temporarily reside/work overseas. We obtain temporary work permits (“EADs”) and travel permits (“advance paroles”) for our adjustment of status clients. We also represent many DACA recipients to seek renewals.
At this time our firm is not handling visitor, student, H-1B, H-2, E-1, E-2 treaty investor/trader visas, EB-5 immigrant investor cases, L-1, O-1 nonimmigrant visas, asylum, or removal (deportation) defense.
Visas
We represent spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens (over age 21) seeking immigrant (“green card”) status for relatives. We also represent U.S. citizens seeking K-1 fiancée nonimmigrant visas.
Green Card Status
We represent spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens (over age 21) seeking immigrant (“green card”) status for relatives.
Work Visas
We seek temporary work permits (“EADs”) & temporary foreign travel permits (“Advance Paroles”) as part as their relatives green card cases.
DACA
We are representing DACA holders who need to seek another two year work permit (“EAD”) to renew that status.
Citizenship
-Most people become U.S. citizens by: Birth within the United States, birth abroad to a U.S. citizen parent, or naturalization within the U.S. after first having immigrated. Additionally, any child under the age of 18 with green card status who is residing in the custody of a biological parent who is a U.S. citizen will also acquire U.S. citizenship due to the Child Citizenship Act (CCA) passed by Congress in 2000. A person may be eligible for naturalization if he/she has resided in the United States for at least 5 years as a permanent resident (or 3 years if married to and living with a U.S. citizen spouse).
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Yesterday evening at the County Line:
Fifty-one years ago this month the six of us started our first year classes at the University of Texas law school. We’ve enjoyed keeping up with each other with barbecue dinners a couple of times each year (along with other classmates who couldn’t join us this evening). We still fondly remember our inspiring professors from those intensive Summer classes: Ernest Smith, Mark Yudof, Barbara Aldave & Bernie Ward. They introduced us to property, tort, contract & constitutional law. Grateful for the opportunities the law school opened for us and the friendships initiated five decades ago.
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Congrats to all for such a wonderful legacy. I'm not a lawyer, but I well remember Mark Yudof from his Educational Policy and the Law book that was required reading for a Human Development and Family Studies taught by a similarly great professor, Kenneth Strike.
Nice you keep up with each other. Old friends are wonderful!
Congratulations Paul and All! I started in ‘75 at UT Law after finishing my USAF Vietnam War commitment! Married with three kids / daughter born first day of law school. Great times! Ed Cohen called on me regarding first assignment which i had not read at St. David’s! Didn’t give him my excuse. Worked through law school. Told him of my excuse years later!
Despite the difficulties of qualifying for U.S. permanent residency status from the current administration, I just got to hand our client, Rania Sprott, her newly approved green card! Rania previously worked as a restaurant manager in her country of citizenship, France. Pictured with us is her husband, Austin lawyer Jarod Sprott. “We’re a country of 230 million very different souls… recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants… held together by a tie that can’t be seen, yet can’t be broken.” Ronald Reagan 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
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Bien hecho!!! Felicidades!!!!
Love the Ronald Reagan quote.
Rania, now go help as many immigrants as you can. Especially the ones wrongfully detained and abused right now. Pass it on!
Congratulations 😀
Rania’s expression says it all! Congratulations, and thank you Paul!
That's awesome
Wonderful- your the BEST!
Good Work Amigo
Congratulations to Rania and her family! Thank you, Paul!
Excellent! Congratulations to all!
What a beautiful smile!
Good work, Paul! Congratulations to all!!
Pro bono immigration consultations this morning. The Mexican consular officials work hard to assist people in our community who are struggling with immigration, health, educational, financial & other hurdles.
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Well done, congratulations 💕
Keep up the good work. We support you from Tyler, Texas!!
A sweet court victory!
Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Massive Attack on Legal Immigration | The New Republic
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A federal judge has ruled against the extreme anti-immigration policies Trump instituted last fall.1 CommentComment on Facebook
What are the chances this will be appealed and challenged in the Supreme Court? Worried they will declare state of emergency to leave it in place indefinitely.
