Category: Recent Announcements

USCIS will begin accepting H-1B Petitions on April 1, 2011 posted Mar 23, 2011, 7:52 AM by Michael Vosilla U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that starting April 1, 2011, they will begin accepting H-1B...

If under arrest, anything you say CAN and WILL be used against you.  You have a right, not to speak and/or to have a lawyer with you during questioning.  These rights should not be taken lightly.  Exercising these rights cannot be used against you.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has greatly expanded property owners’ duty to remove snow and ice accumulations on their property.  The old rule was that they could not be held liable for naturally occurring accumulations of snow and...

Please be advised that due to election results and the swearing in of new elected officials for the new year, naturalization civics test questions 20, 23, 43 and 47 may have changed.  Be sure to confirm the correct answers with an immigration attorney prior to...

The attorneys at LaFountain & Wollman, P.C. would like to wish both clients, and non clients alike, a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!

For the first time, USCIS has provided immigration attorneys with a standard form to request a waiver of application fees.  This additional guidance gives attorneys a much clearer view of what USCIS is looking when adjudicating fee waiver requests.

U.S.C.I.S. has announced that as of November 23, 2010, the filing fees for many immigration petitions and applications will be increasing by approximately ten percent.  The affected petitions/applications include many commonly used forms specifically those used to apply for an immigrant visa, apply for a green card,...