DACA Renewal

The USCIS has released guidelines for renewing your DACA application. If you became DACAmented and your DACA will expire soon we can help with the renewal process.

Who Can Renew?

If you were granted DACA and continue to meet the guidelines for DACA, you may submit an application to renew your DACA. You must also meet the following requirements in order to qualify for DACA renewal:

a. You must not have departed the U.S. on or after August 15, 2012, without first having been granted advance parole.
b. You must have resided continuously in the U.S. from the time you submitted the initial request for DACA up until the present time.
c. You must not have been convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or three or more misdemeanors, and must not otherwise pose a threat to national security or public safety.

When should you Renew your DACA?

You may apply for to renew your DACA any time before the date your current DACA and employment authorization document (EAD) expire. However, we recommend that you not submit your renewal application more than 150 days (or 5 months) before your DACA expiration date. USCIS may reject and return any DACA renewal application submitted more than 150 days (5 months) before the applicant’s DACA and EAD expire.

To find your DACA expiration date, do either of the following:

Look at the I-797 Notice of Action under “Notice Type”
Look at your EAD under “Card Expires”
USCIS expects that if you submit your renewal application approximately 120 days before your DACA expiration date, it will be able to review your application and either grant or deny it before your DACA expires. However, if you file a renewal application at least 120 days before the expiration date and USCIS doesn’t grant or deny the renewal before the expiration date, USCIS may extend your DACA and work authorization for a short period of time until your renewal request is adjudicated. Therefore, it is very important that you submit your renewal application no later than 120 days before your DACA and EAD expire.

There are a very small number of people who were granted DACA by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) before August 15, 2012, while they were in detention or removal proceedings.[4] These people are allowed to apply to renew their DACA right away.

Call our office to set up an appointment to help you renew your DACA application. If you haven’t applied for DACA and you feel that you may qualify, call our office to set up a consultation!

Welcome Morgan de-Haro Brown to The Garibay Law Office!

Circle of life? Today, Morgan de Haro Brown, a former dancer in my wife’s dance troupe joins my office as an attorney. No one would have foreseen that this teenager who danced with my sons in the group, Danzantes de Durango, would years later join me in my law office as an attorney. A former Peace Corp. volunteer and grad of Univ. of Wyoming Law School, Morgan is a passionate advocate for immigrants and for abused women. Welcome aboard!Circle of life? Today, Morgan de Haro Brown, a former dancer in my wife’s dance troupe joins my office as an attorney. No one would have foreseen that this teenager who danced with my sons in the group, Danzantes de Durango, would years later join me in my law office as an attorney. A former Peace Corp. volunteer and grad of Univ. of Wyoming Law School, Morgan is a passionate advocate for immigrants and for abused women. Welcome aboard!

-Guillermo Garibay

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Steve King Amendment Passes House To Deport More Dreamers

imagesWASHINGTON — The House voted 224-201 on Thursday to end Department of Homeland Security discretion policies that allow it to delay deportations for young, undocumented immigrants and other people deemed low-priority, effectively demanding the government force out Dreamers who came to the United States as children.

The amendment, offered by immigration hawk Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), was approved mostly along party lines. However, three Democrats — Reps. John Barrow (D-Ga.), Nick Rahall (D-W.V.) and Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) — supported the amendment. Six Republicans — Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), David Nunes (R-Calif.), Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), David Valadao (R-Calif.) — opposed it, while nine members did not vote.

To read the full article from The Huffington Post click here. 

Eric Cantor Attacked From All Sides On Immigration

obama-is-announcing-a-new-100-million-spending-project-today--and-eric-cantor-actually-agrees-with-itRICHMOND, Va. — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) faced two competing attacks on Wednesday near his home district in Richmond. The first: That he’s a liberal on immigration posing as a hardliner just to get primary election votes. The second: That he’s one of the biggest impediments to immigration reform in the House.

Facing a June 10 primary challenge from longshot Republican Dave Brat, Cantor’s campaign boasts that he blocked a comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by the Senate, bolstering his tough-on-immigration credentials. As majority leader, Cantor has given no immigration reform measures a chance for a vote in the House, either as a comprehensive bill or in smaller measures, like the recently-blocked Enlist Act.

Read the full article from The Huffington Post here. 

Lack of Immigration Reform Means Worker Shortage for Colorado Builders

Shortage of skilled workersAntonio Ledezma has been trying for four months through online and newspaper ads and employment agencies in three states to hire about a dozen new laborers for his road- and bridge-building crews.

He’s had only a handful of applications for the $15- to $18-an-hour entry-level concrete finishing and carpentry jobs at the Commerce City-based company he heads, Jalisco International Inc. With an uptick in projects due to an improving economy and the coming of spring — and with no movement on immigration reform — Ledezma, like many contractors, is growing increasingly worried.

Read more: Lack of immigration reform means worker shortage for Colorado builders – The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24881507/lack-immigration-reform-means-worker-shortage-colorado-builders#ixzz33DuXzIer

VP Biden lands in Colorado, urges immigration bill

628x471DENVER (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Republicans should pass an immigration overhaul now that the party is ending its potentially divisive primary season.

Biden made the remarks in a conversation with a handful of Colorado politicians and Hispanic religious leaders at a Denver coffee shop. He noted that Republicans, who refused to bring immigration to a vote in the House of Representatives, have suggested they may move a bill once their primaries ended.

 

Read the full article from WesportNews here. 

Harry Reid: Presiden Obama May Have to Act on Immigration Reform

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that the Obama administration will have to act alone on stemming deportations if the House doesn’t move on immigration reform by this summer’s end.

The comments from Reid appeared to be the most definitive that the Senate’s top Democrat has given on the politically thorny question of whether the administration should use executive authority to halt deportations. That’s a top demand of pro-reform advocates, particularly from those who are skeptical the House will end up doing anything on immigration this year.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/harry-reid-obama-immigration-reform-house-white-house-act-alone-107005.html#ixzz33DrYFz92

Former Immigrant Detainee Begins Career in Law Enforcement/Ex Detenido Inmigrante Comienza su Carrera como un Agente de Policia

My former immigration client stopped by the office after he had just gotten off work.  He is wearing the uniform of the sheriff’s department he now works for.  Some years back this same former client was an in-custody detainee with an immigration hold facing charges related to allegations he used his brother’s id.  Once the state charges were resolved he was turned over to ICE and the immigration court where faced removal to Mexico. Although he was born in Mexico, his legal permanent resident father had brought him to the United States when he was very young.  The father returned to Mexico and abandoned my client who was in middle school at the time.  He was left in the care of the father’s ex-girlfriend who neglected the then young boy.  This young man, with the assistance of several carrying families, basically raised himself.  Against all odds, this abandoned young man graduated from a Colorado high school with honors.  An application for cancellation of removal was filed in immigration court.  This is an application for a form of discretionary relief that an immigration judge can give: if the applicant has been in the United States for ten years, if the applicant is of good moral character, and if his removal would cause extreme hardship to US citizen or legal permanent resident family members.  During the immigration court hearing on this case, my client testified  as to the circumstances of his entry into the United States.  His testimony was that because his father was a legal permanent resident, US customs and border officials also allowed him to cross the border even though only his father had legal paperwork allowing lawful entry.  The judge noting that there was law holding that, despite one lacking a proper visa to enter the country, if the border authorities stopped the person at the border and then allowed that person to enter the country, then the person was lawfully admitted.  If my client was lawfully admitted, his wife could then apply for his green card in this country (adjustment of status).  The advantage of applying for adjustment of status was that it did not require the showing of extreme hardship to family members that was requited for cancellation of removal. The immigration judge then continued the case so as to allow us to file an application for adjustment of status.  Several months later the immigration court hearing reconvened in this matter and to the delight of my client, his wife, and their beautiful twin  two year old daughters, the immigration judge approved my clients application and he became a legal permanent resident.  Without question the immigration judge was impressed by this young man and the small rural Colorado community that helped raise him. The key to his success was his own hard work/determination and the rural community that adopted him as their own.

Mi ex cliente de inmigración llegó a la oficina después de que acababa de salir del trabajo. Él llevaba el uniforme de el departamento del sheriff donde ahora trabaja. Hace algunos años este mismo ex cliente fue detenido bajo custodia con una retención de inmigración y enfrenta cargos relacionados con las alegaciones de la utilización de la identificación de su hermano. Una vez que se resolvieron los cargos estatales que fue entregado a ICE y la corte de inmigración donde se enfrentaba la deportación a México.

A pesar de que nació en México, su padre residente permanente legal le había traído a los Estados Unidos cuando él era muy joven. Su padre regresó a México y abandonó a mi cliente que estaba en la escuela media en el momento. Se quedó en el cuidado de la ex-novia de su padre, que descuida el niño. Este joven, con la ayuda de varias familias que cuidan, básicamente, cuidó de él. Contra todo pronóstico, este joven abandonada se graduó de una escuela secundaria de Colorado con honores.

La solicitud de cancelación de la deportación fue presentada en la corte de inmigración. Esta es una solicitud para una forma de alivio discrecional de que un juez de inmigración puede dar si el solicitante ha estado en los Estados Unidos durante diez años, si el solicitante es de buen carácter moral, y si su eliminación causaría dificultades extremas de Ciudadano o EE.UU. miembros de la familia residentes permanentes legales. Durante el corte de inmigración audiencia sobre este caso, mi cliente testificó sobre las circunstancias de su entrada en los Estados Unidos. Su testimonio ha explicado que también ya que su padre era un residente legal permanente, Aduanas deEE.UU. y los funcionarios de fronteras le permitió cruzar la frontera a pesar de que sólo su padre tenía documentación legal que permite la entrada legal. El juez señaló que, a pesar de que una persona que carece de un visado adecuado para entrar en el país, si las autoridades fronterizas detuvieron a la persona en la frontera y luego se deja a esa persona para entrar en el país, a continuación, la persona fue admitida legalmente. Si mi cliente fue admitido legalmente, su esposa podría entonces solicitar su tarjeta de residencia en este país (ajuste de estatus). La ventaja de la aplicación de ajuste de estatus fue que no requería la demostración de dificultad extrema a los miembros de la familia que se requieren para la cancelación de la deportación.

El juez de inmigración continuó el caso a fin de que podamos presentar una solicitud de ajuste de estatus. Varios meses más tarde, el corte de inmigración se volvió a reunir en esta asunto y para el deleite de mi cliente, su esposa y sus dos hijas hermosas gemelas 2 años de edad, el juez de inmigración aprobó la solicitud de mi cliente y se convirtió en un residente permanente legal. Sin duda el juez de inmigración quedó impresionado por este joven y la pequeña comunidad rural que ayudó a criarlo. La clave de su éxito fue su propio trabajo duro y la determinación y de la comunidad rural que lo adoptó como propio.

Welcome to The Garibay Law Blog!

Thank you for visiting Garibay Law! We are a Immigration and Criminal Defense Law Office based out of Pueblo, Colorado. We proudly serve all of Southern Colorado and we look forward to serving you as well!

Although we are new to the world of bloging we are no strangers to the worlds of justice, criminal defense and immigration law and reform. Through this blog we will be able to tell some amazing stories from some of our past cases, discuss local and national news stories with an emphasis on how they relate to the people and share other great bits of information that will help you understand your rights more clearly.

Please feel free to browse our website at http://www.garibaylaw.com to learn about our services. If you have any questions you can reach us by phone or email.

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