Holiday Charity Challenge Winner & Poem
In my holiday card email, I asked everyone to nominate their favorite charity for a donation from our firm. I was delighted to learn about so many wonderful organizations. Congratulations [...]
Immigrant Advocates Hopeful for Positive Changes With New Administration
It is no secret that the current administration has taken a hardline approach to immigration policy. As a result, the immigration process has become more and more difficult for immigrants [...]
Understand the Issues: 2020 Election Guide on Immigration
The American Immigration Lawyers Association, or AILA, has recently released its 2020 Election Guide. The Guide includes analysis of candidates’ views divided into eight immigration topics. It also features candidate [...]
Government Focuses on Immigrants’ Financial Health
The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) issued a new rule to determine eligibility for temporary work status, a green card, or admission to the United States. The rule changes [...]
Who Will Step Up to Lift the Fear of Deportations?
Justice for immigrants does not come easily. I recently discovered two heroes who brought immigration justice to my family and me. I praise these heroes in my story published in [...]
USCIS Has Evolved Into A Third Immigration-Enforcement Agency
After 9/11/2001, the government created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This department deals with immigration-related matters. Congress divided DHS into three separate branches: U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Service [...]
At LGBT Film Festival, Navid Joins Immigration Panel
LGBT individuals around the world are often tortured or executed, including in my home country. Alongside other experts and community leaders, I was honored to discuss the related immigration [...]
On CNN, Navid Dayzad Explains US-Mexico Border Crisis
On CNN, Navid explains the ongoing immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. He dismantles the false narrative that all families arriving at the U.S. border are doing so illegally. [...]
Trump Nominates Lee Francis Cissna as USCIS Director
Trump’s nomination for USCIS Director, Lee Francis Cissna, sat for his confirmation hearing last month before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Currently the Director of Immigration Policy at the U.S. [...]
New Executive Order on Travel Ban
The President today issued a new Executive Order. It replaces his Executive Order of January 27, 2017 which mandated a travel ban on the nationals of 7 predominantly Muslim [...]