Immigration

Immigration

Michael D. Patrick | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

Introduction On December 17, 2014, President Obama announced a re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba that would ease sanctions of the half-century-long Cuba embargo. Since the early 1960s, the economic embargo on Cuba enacted stringent restrictions on travel and trade for persons...

Immigration

Carl Hampe, Patrick Shen | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

Introduction Since 2009, the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) has been increasing steadily its enforcement of the anti-discriminatory provisions under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Created by the Immigration...

Immigration

Andres Ortiz, Mitchell Wexler | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

Roger[1] is a native and citizen of Canada. His entire family resides in the United States and is in the process of adjusting to lawful permanent resident status. Roger also suffers from severe anxiety, and as a result, he received a doctor-prescribed medical marijuana card. Occasionally, he uses...