An arrest for driving under the influence (DUI/DWI) can result in the revocation of your H-1B visa or its non-renewal. Consular officials with the U.S. Department of State have the discretion to revoke or decline to renew your visa regardless of whether you get charged or convicted of DUI. Whether the state revokes or non-renews …
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not recently conducted any large-scale raids in Denver, Colorado, on the scale of what occurred in 2019. During one operation that year, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers apprehended 63 non-citizens.1 Though even though ICE is not arresting immigrants on the scale it used to, all removable …
An ICE hold refers to a written request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to a local jail or other law enforcement agency that has taken a person into custody after a lawful arrest. The request asks that the jail or agency detain the person for an additional 48 hours after his/her scheduled release date. …
You may have read recently about the large number of California governor’s pardons granted at the end of 2016 by Governor Jerry Brown. In fact, Governor Brown has far exceeded his predecessors in the number of pardons he has granted since he assumed office. We also know that President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to speed up …
With President-elect Donald Trump promising mass deportation of immigrants with criminal records, many California residents who are not U.S. citizens and have suffered criminal convictions are (rightly) concerned about their future. But Proposition 64, which legalized recreational marijuana in California, may offer help to those whose convictions were for marijuana-related offenses. Passed by California voters on November 8, …
