A huge segment of the legal community thinks that international law equals immigration law. My local bar association even conflates the two ideas in its committee structure, which is so baffling that both the international lawyers and the immigration lawyers in town have given up trying to convince everybody
I’m off to Montreal this week– a much-anticipated trip– for meetings and a conference, then on to Oxford next week to give a CLE lecture. When I come back, I anticipate a bit of a
“So, Aaron, what kind of law do you handle?” ”
Anything in litigation that crosses a border.
“Oh. Immigration?” [After a few dozen times hearing that, I
I hate to be the guy who breaks this to you, I said to the client, but there is no chance that you’ll be able to get that notice of hearing served in time. Not properly, anyway.
Poor fellow was a first-year associate, trying to get a notice of a guardianship hearing served on an
A couple of years ago, I ran into a law school classmate at a happy hour hosted by our local bar association. “Hey, you handle service of process in other countries, right?” Yeah, I answered. Quite a bit of Hague Service Convention stuff.
“Great. Let me ask you a question…”
He was handling
[Originally published at vikinglaw.us]
Immigration attorneys seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status for their clients must seek an order of guardianship in state court before an Immigration Court will confer SIJ classification. In order to establish that guardianship, they (or co-counsel who practices family law) must put the child’s biological parent(s) on notice of
