The Secret to Passing Your “Green Card” Interview:

Each year over 400,000 people apply for permanent status as a United States resident. Each year, over half of those people fail to pass their Green Card interview for one reason or another.If you are interested in learning everything you need to know about the Green Card interview process and then you need “The Secret to Passing Your Green Card Interview.”

As an immigration attorney, I have seen it all and know why so many people fail during the interview process. This is the first initial step to becoming a United States Citizen, and the most important. With years of experience under my belt I have put together this guide to help anyone understand how to successfully pass their Green Card Interview.

Who is the author of this course?

My name is James Sarpong, an experienced immigration attorney from Denver, Colorado. I have helped thousands of people get their card green card and citizenship through my law offices at www.sarponglaw.com – I have been hired for thousands of immigration cases and have sat through hundreds of green card interviews. I know exactly what the interviewers ask and what they look for. I have put all my knowledge into an easy to read and understand course that anyone can follow to pass their green card interview – with or without an immigration attorney.

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Sarpong Law Offices represents Immigration clients throughout the United States from Los Angeles California to Philadelphia Pensylvania. Our Immigration Lawyers and Attorneys counsel clients with regard to Green Card Applications, US Citizenship, Non-Immigrant Visas, Family and Employment Visas, and Immigration Court Representations.

US dismisses Rwanda genocide immigration case:

WICHITA, Kansas — An elderly Rwandan immigrant accused of genocide reacted with joy Thursday to news that the US government has dismissed all charges against him, his lawyer said.

Lazare Kobagaya, 84, “can live out his days as a grandfather in Topeka, Kansas, and watch his great-grandchildren grow up,” defense attorney Kurt Kerns said.

“He won’t be deported. He won’t be jailed. He won’t be put on probation. His life is basically restored.”

US prosecutors had charged Kobagaya with lying about his actions during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in order to gain entry to the United States and eventual citizenship.

While he cannot be tried in a US court for crimes committed in Rwanda, Kobagaya could be deported if convicted of lying to immigration officials when he denied participating in genocide.

His family said that deportation to Rwanda is tantamount to a death sentence.

In May, jurors found that Kobagaya made a false statement on his visa application about his whereabouts in 1994.

They deadlocked over whether he misled officials on a citizenship application by denying he took part in genocide.

On Thursday, however, prosecutors filed a motion seeking to set aside the verdict and dismiss all charges against Kobagaya.

Prosecutors said they had failed to inform defense attorneys of an immigration official’s statement that Kobagaya’s mere presence in Rwanda in 1994 would not have barred him from entering the United States.

Judge Monti Belot granted the motion to throw out the case against him.

To read more about this topic, click on the following link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJMoz36n4bG3lv0MdqIoahQB3Uhg?docId=CNG.833bfd94605fae0dd1f45d20ba50b0af.1c1.

Sarpong Law Offices represents Immigration clients throughout the United States from Los Angeles California to Philadelphia Pensylvania. Our Immigration Lawyers and Attorneys counsel clients with regard to Green Card Applications, US Citizenship, Non-Immigrant Visas, Family and Employment Visas, and Immigration Court Representations.

Alabama’s immigration travesty:

YOU’D THINK that Alabama, crucible of the civil rights movement, would be wary of enacting legislation whose effect is to marginalize, ostracize and demonize people based on their ethnic or racial origin. But notwithstanding official protestations from Montgomery, that’s exactly what is likely to happen starting next Thursday when the state’s poisonous law targeting illegal immigrants takes effect.

As described by Micky Hammon, Republican majority leader of the state’s House of Representatives and the measure’s chief sponsor, the legislation was patterned after a similar bill in Arizona — but with “an Alabama flavor.” Part of that “flavor,” as Mr. Hammon explains it in a video available on YouTube, involves requiring residents to produce IDs to establish their immigration status in “every aspect of a person’s life.”

To read more about this topic, click on the following link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alabamas-immigration-travesty/2011/08/25/gIQA0M69iJ_story.html.

Sarpong Law Offices represents Immigration clients throughout the United States from Los Angeles California to Philadelphia Pensylvania. Our Immigration Lawyers and Attorneys counsel clients with regard to Green Card Applications, US Citizenship, Non-Immigrant Visas, Family and Employment Visas, and Immigration Court Representations.

Immigration Tariff: Reforming a Broken System:

America’s immigration system is broken. Years of overregulation aimed at micromanaging the system has produced nearly 100 different types of visas, each with its own complex rules, regulations, and requirements. These rules and regulations hold back American economic growth by discouraging the hardworking and entrepreneurial to come to this country. With unemployment persisting above 9 percent and escalating government deficits, an immigration tariff to replace the current regulatory labyrinth is both sensible and pragmatic.

The immigration tariff is a fee levied on every work visa or green card issued. The tariff approach would streamline immigration procedures, increase federal revenue, and remove most of the cumbersome, economy-killing immigration restrictions now on the books. Ideally, the government immigration services would just interdict criminals, suspected terrorists, and those with deadly transmittable diseases. All others would be eligible for work visas or green cards, for which they would pay the tariff.

Our immigration laws are crammed with silly requirements and anachronistic rules that prevent entrepreneurial immigrants from setting up shop here. For example, EB-5 visas, which are issued to entrepreneurs, require that applicants invest between $500,000 and $1 million in a new U.S. commercial enterprise depending on the region of the country, directly create 10 new jobs within two years, or significantly expand an existing U.S. business. No wonder EB-5 visas are underused.

These problems are compounded by quotas, which create a massive backlog in the migration process. Quotas are rigid in the face of an increasingly dynamic economic reality. Replacing visas like the EB-5 visa with a background check and a tariff of, say, $10,000 makes things a lot easier on American business and foreign investors. For example, if the wages for computer programmers were to skyrocket because American firms are expanding, current quotas do not adjust to accommodate the increased demand. But if a computer programmer had merely to comply with a background check and pay an immigration tariff, he would be able to fill the spot in no time.

To read more about this topic, click on the following link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-nowrasteh/immigration-tariff-reform_b_937065.html?ir=Politics.

Sarpong Law Offices represents Immigration clients throughout the United States from Los Angeles California to Philadelphia Pensylvania. Our Immigration Lawyers and Attorneys counsel clients with regard to Green Card Applications, US Citizenship, Non-Immigrant Visas, Family and Employment Visas, and Immigration Court Representations.

Justice Department Sues Ala. Over Immigration Law:

Reaction was swift in Alabama on Tuesday after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit to block a new immigration law set to take effect next month.

Alabama’s new law — considered the toughest in the country — requires authorities to confirm the status of anyone they stop if there’s reasonable doubt that person could be in the U.S. illegally. The law makes it a crime for undocumented immigrants to work, rent an apartment or get a driver’s license.

Just before noon on Tuesday, Birmingham police dispatcher Carol Bryant had already fielded more than 100 calls. Bryant and other dispatchers would be responsible for checking records with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement — or ICE.

“It would, like, be more work, you know, doing the ICE check when it goes into effect,” Bryant says. “Then they’ll probably give us some kind of heads-up, you know, about [looking] for the extra workload.”

In the lawsuit filed Monday, Birmingham’s police chief said his department would have to reallocate scarce resources for something that’s not a city priority. The Justice Department argues the law unconstitutionally interferes with the federal government’s authority over immigration.

A group of religious leaders has also filed suit, claiming the law inhibits free exercise of religion. They cite one provision that makes it a felony — punishable by up to 10 years in prison — to transport undocumented immigrants.

To read more about this topic, click on the following link: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138935775/justice-department-sues-alabama-over-immigration-law.

Sarpong Law Offices represents Immigration clients throughout the United States from Los Angeles California to Philadelphia Pensylvania. Our Immigration Lawyers and Attorneys counsel clients with regard to Green Card Applications, US Citizenship, Non-Immigrant Visas, Family and Employment Visas, and Immigration Court Representations.