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Cesar Chavez Day & A Little History Behind It "Mexican American Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) was a prominent union leader and labor organizer. Hardened by his early experience as a manual laborer, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. His union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California, and the two organizations later merged to become the United Farm Workers. Stressing nonviolent metho...ds, Chavez drew attention for his causes via boycotts, marches and hunger strikes. Despite conflicts with the Teamsters union and legal barriers, he was able to secure raises and improve conditions for farm workers in California, Texas, Arizona and Florida." http://ow.ly/5ROs50CYAo6 Make a donation to the United Farm Workers by clicking here: https://act.seiu.org/a/newyearresolution2021?ms=web

House passes immigration bill with pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants "In the first vote, the House passed H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard of California. It would provide a pathway to citizenship for the young undocumented immigrants known as "Dreamers" as well as for Temporary Protected Status recipients and Deferred Enforced Departure beneficiaries. The legislation stands to make up... to 4.4 million individuals eligible for permanent residence, according to the Migration Policy Institute." http://ow.ly/1E2550E2Mpk

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USCIS Announces a Revised Naturalization Civics Test "The civics test is administered to applicants who apply for U.S. citizenship and is one of the statutory requirements for naturalizing. Applicants who apply for naturalization on or after Dec. 1, 2020, will take the updated version of the test. Those who apply before Dec. 1, 2020, will take the current version of the test. . . . The revised test includes more questions that test the applicant’s understanding of U.S. histor...y and civics, in line with the statutory requirements, and covers a variety of topics that provide the applicant with more opportunities to learn about the United States as part of the test preparation process. The revised test will not change the passing score, which will remain at 60%. Candidates must answer 12 questions correctly, out of 20 in order to pass. USCIS will maintain the current guidelines for statutorily established special considerations for applicants who are 65 years old or older and have at least 20 years of lawful permanent resident status. These applicants will be asked 10 questions and must answer a minimum of six questions correctly in order to pass." http://ow.ly/flyv50CGpop

Immigration officials restore DACA and start accepting first-time applications following court order "Complying with a recent court order, the Trump administration on Monday reinstated a program created by President Obama to shield undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as minors from deportation, announcing it would accept initial applications for the first time in three years. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it would administer the Deferred Action for Ch...ildhood Arrivals (DACA) program under the guidelines crafted by the Obama administration in 2012. Starting Monday, DHS said it would grant approved applicants work permits and deportation deferrals that last for two years and allow DACA-holders to request permission to travel abroad under certain circumstances. The restoration of Mr. Obama's signature immigration policy, mandated by a federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday, is a major victory for more than 640,000 current DACA recipients, as well as an estimated 300,000 undocumented immigrant teenagers and young adults who could be eligible to apply for the program." http://ow.ly/5s0u50CG5kc

A Biden Immigration Policy: New Hope For Immigrants And Businesses "High-Skilled Immigration: If the Biden administration understands only one thing about business immigration, it should be this: H-1B visas are inextricably linked with the ability of highly educated people to become employment-based immigrants and eventually American citizens. ... USCIS and State Department Processing: One barrier that will be hardest to break is the enormous backlog with both USCIS and Stat...e, said Jeffrey Gorsky, senior counsel ....While Biden is likely to shift resources from enforcement to adjudication, it may take a year or years to burn through the piles of unfinished work. For the State Department, once normal processing resumes, bearing in mind that some of this suspension is due to legitimate Covid-19-related concerns and not just immigration restrictions, it may increase the visa wait times by 6 months to a year. ... Executive Orders, Proclamations and Regulations: Analysts believe if the Biden administration is smart, it will make a clean break from the Trump era by undoing all executive orders and proclamations on immigration that are not directly tied to health concerns related to Covid-19. That would include the most high-profile measures, such as the ban on the entry of individuals from primarily Muslim countries. Undoing the April 2020 immigration proclamation would allow immigrants in the family-sponsored and Diversity Visa categories to enter the United States... ... DACA and Dreamers: Over the past four years, it took a great deal of legal activity, including a Supreme Court ruling, to protect the legal status of more than 600,000 recipients of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Joe Biden said protecting Dreamers will be a priority. How he protects them will matter." http://ow.ly/ICyu50CfDm3

If you are a professional, you may qualify for a temporary work visa to enter the U.S. and work for a U.S. employer. These include the O Visa, E Visa, L Visa, and the TN Visa. Eligibility depends on your academic achievements, work experience and job offer.

Belen Describes Her Joy When She Received Legal Status in the U.S.

Click here for How to Access Family Law Virtual Hearings. You'll need 1) the hearing department number, 2) your case number, and 3) access to a phone, preferably video. When you call in, the Clerk will ask you to identify yourself, and then give you further instructions. Typically, you'll wait until your case is called before speaking. When your case is called, the Court will start, then you respond. ... http://ow.ly/Rw7W50CaCbd

Trump considers targeting birthright citizenship with executive order in his last weeks in office, report says "Birthright citizenship is the policy whereby anyone who is born in the US is immediately granted citizenship, regardless of whether their parents have citizenship or not. It's guaranteed under the 14th Amendment, which states in part that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States... and of the State wherein they reside." More than 30 countries mostly in the Western Hemisphere have birthright citizenship. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is an example of someone who received their US citizenship in this way. Harris's Indian mother and Jamaican father were not yet US citizens when she was born in California in 1964, but she became a US citizen. ... Counter-arguments to birthright citizenship over the years say that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted. "The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was clearly intended to guarantee that emancipated slaves would properly be recognized as U.S. citizens," RJ Hauman, government relations director at Federation for American Immigration Reform, told The Hill. Hauman's group is an anti-immigration non-profit. "It is a fundamental misapplication of this clause that U.S.-born children of illegal aliens are granted automatic citizenship, much less the offspring of people who come here to simply give birth on American soil." If the president finally issues a long-awaited executive order limiting birthright citizenship, it will be up to the Supreme Court to resolve this issue once and for all," Hauman said." http://ow.ly/z6Tj50CsIbT

Click here for accessing virtual hearings for family law cases. You'll need 1) Your case number, and 2) A phone or computer with video access. http://ow.ly/wPSH50CaBTO

Click below for Updated Family Court Services Information: - In Person & Drop Box Filing - Requesting Emergency Orders (Ex Parte Applications) - Family Law Facilitator Services... - Restraining Order Information http://ow.ly/LRF150CaBFJ

If you haven’t already, take the time to vote today. Your vote matters. #yourcivicduty #historyinthemaking #vote2020 See below for San Diego County voter information.

Department Of Homeland Security To Abandon H1B Visa Lottery For Salary Rankings "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced it will replace the H-1B visa lottery, in which foreign citizens with college degrees compete for limited slots, with a wage-based selection process prioritizing higher salaries. .... This effort would only affect H-1B registrations submitted by future petitioners seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions. It would be implemented for both th...e H-1B regular cap and the H-1B advanced degree exemption, but would not change the order of selection between the two. ... The program has recently been under attack for ostensibly undercutting the wages of domestic workers. Under the current program, however, the U.S. employer who seeks to engage a foreign worker is required to pay that applicant the prevailing wage rate as determined and published by the Department of Labor through regular salary surveys in the marketplace throughout the country. One of the complicating factors of this system is that any particular position may require individuals with varying experience and thus the prevailing wage rate depends on the level of seniority the employer requires. Senior workers will be paid higher wages while junior workers will be paid lower ones. This is more a problem of the way the prevailing wages are determined by the Department of Labor than it is about foreign workers coming to America to undercut domestic worker salaries. Raising the wage rates as contemplated may be attractive to more high skilled foreign workers, but may not solve the problem of filling much needed positions in the workforce since such wages may not be affordable to employers, who instead, may hire such workers online overseas at lower rates." http://ow.ly/DBIT50C6Hw6

Lara describes her experience working on a divorce case with Attorney Ashley Negrette.

We offer legal services for divorce cases, including annulment, domestic violence, child custody, support and vistation, spousal support, property division, business valuation, and settlement agreements.

Trump Gets Path Cleared for Expedited Removal of Immigrants "The Trump administration can use fast-track deportation proceedings for undocumented immigrants found anywhere in the U.S. who have been in the country for less than two years, a federal appeals court ruled in a major setback for states that backed a lawsuit seeking to block the plan. Expedited removals have been available to immigration officials for two decades in cases where undocumented people were apprehended... within 100 miles of the U.S. border. The government last July expanded the rule to apply nationwide, triggering a lawsuit by advocacy groups that feared a broader crackdown on immigrants." http://ow.ly/rbPS50BMlAI

Apply for a green card through your U.S. Citizen Spouse, Parent, or Child over the age of 21. You may be required to file a "waiver" if you have a criminal conviction, have unlawful presence, or have a prior order of deportation.

Naturalization is the process of applying for U.S. citizenship after a period of permanent residence status. U.S. citizenship can also be passed to a child through a parent by operation of law if certain age and physical presence requirements are met. This area of law requires complex legal analysis.

Amelia y Francisco describen la experiencia trabajando con la abogada Ashley Negrette.