Immigration practitioner Godfrey Muwonge starts legal blog and commentary on immigration matters
Attorney
will provide information to the public about this difficult-to-understand area
of law which has become a focal point of current government policies.
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin November, 2018 – Immigration attorney Godfrey Muwonge of the law firm
of Law Office of Godfrey Y. Muwonge, LLC announced today his new legal blog https://GodfreyMuwonge.blogspot.com/
which will focus primarily on visa and immigration
matters, and how they are changing.
“With
all the recent news headlines and often difficult-to-understand information
regarding visas and immigration, I felt that I could help explain the truths
behind the real issues at hand” said Godfrey Muwonge. “We have over a decade of
experience working on immigration issues such as Asylum,
Citizenship, Green Cards, Deportation/Removal Defense (Immigration Court),
Appeals, U visas, and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This experience can
help people understand how visa and immigration matters are changing.”
One
of the important aspects generally not reported in the media is how immigration
laws and regulations are applied. Only practitioners like Godfrey Muwonge have
insight into these matters.
For
example, recently the immigration service USCIS seems to have begun to
scrutinize Green Card cases much more. Many Green Card applicants for whom a
family-based petition (“I-130 Petition”) has been filed, received identical
“Requests for Evidence” (RFEs) about the financial sponsor (in most cases the
spouse). Even if in the original I-130 filing the spouse’s tax returns show
sufficient income to support the immigrant, USCIS in many cases sends an RFE
asking for more evidence of income and assets.
Another
example are Green Card cases where the immigrant was previously in F-1 student
status. Also in those cases, USCIS now often sends RFEs, asking for proof that
the immigrant maintained “student status” for the entire time that he or she
was in student status. “Student status” means that the student attended at
least 12 credit hours per term.
Finally,
another issue that has arisen is the validity of medical exams for immigration
purposes. In the past, a complete Green Card filing required that a medical exam
(I-693), issued by a clinic registered with USCIS, be included. However, these
medical exams are valid for only one year. Since delays have increased, many
Green Card cases are pending for far longer than one year. Thus, the medical
exam results expire, USCIS issues an RFE for a new medical exam, and the
immigrant must undergo the medical exam once again (and pay for that). Thus,
many immigration practitioners now file Green Card cases without such medical
and rather wait for an RFE from USCIS so that the immigrant has to undergo the
medical exam only once.
Godfrey
Muwonge is planning to inform the public about such developments that they may
not read about in the newspaper or see on television.
About Godfrey Muwonge
Godfrey
Muwonge is the principal of the law firm of Law Office of Godfrey Y. Muwonge, LLC, a full-service
immigration law firm offering a complete range of immigration services. The
firm has a solid decade of experiences helping clients of foreign nationality
with temporary work permits for the U.S., green card petitions, criminal
waivers and representation in removal proceedings cases to name just a few of
the services they provide. While the majority of the clients the firm assists
live within the state of Wisconsin, Mr. Muwonge represents individuals all over
the United States and several foreign countries.
References
Godfrey Muwonge is an attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Author of “Immigration Reform: We Can Do It, If We Apply Our Founders' True Ideals, Revised Edition” (Univ. Press of America, 2010), which was selected as one of top-10 Books that Drive the Debate (2009) by U.S. Chamber of Commerce's National Chamber Foundation. See https://www.amazon.com/Immigration-Reform-Apply-Founders-Ideals-ebook/dp/B00D79W838
