If you have plans to travel internationally this summer, you may be wondering whether recent developments in immigration law affect your ability to return to the United States. It is a reasonable question. Recently, the United States Supreme Court issued an important decision involving a lawful permanent resident who returned from international travel and was treated as an applicant for admission based on alleged criminal conduct. Although the Court's decision addressed a specific legal issue...

One of the most common misconceptions in immigration law is that if a person cannot produce a visa stamp, an I-94 record, or a passport showing their entry into the United States, they were never legally admitted. While that may sometimes be true, immigration law is far more complicated than many people realize. In fact, whether someone was legally admitted to the United States is often one of the most important questions in an immigration case. The answer can determine whether a person is...

This week, USCIS issued a new memorandum regarding adjustment of status adjudications, and almost immediately social media filled with claims that adjustment of status is effectively over. That is not true. The memo attempts to frame adjustment of status as relief that should only be granted in “extraordinary circumstances.” The legal problem is that Congress never wrote the statute that way. Adjustment of status exists because Congress created it under INA § 245(a), codified at 8 U.S.C. §...