FOREIGN AFFAIRS MANUAL

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                    [Title] => What to do if your visa is refused/denied (Part 2)
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In a previous article, I discussed some items or suggestions that could possibly increase your chances of obtaining a visa, avoiding a refusal, or overcoming a refusal.
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                    [Title] => 'Humanitarian parole' for minor or special children being left behind
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Dear Attorney Gurfinkel:
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                    [Title] => ‘Alien smuggling’ requires an affirmative act of assistance
                    [Summary] => Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (which is one level below the U.S. Supreme Court) held that a person was not guilty of alien smuggling, despite being fully aware that an illegal alien was in the trunk of the car in which she was riding, and she knew fully well that the alien was trying to enter the U.S. in violation of U.S. immigration laws.  


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                    [Title] => Beware of adoption fraud
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My husband and I are US citizens, and have been trying to have a child for several years now. My unmarried niece in the Philippines is pregnant, and is about to give birth. She is very poor and could not afford to raise the child.  I know that I will be able to provide a good life for her child.  I was thinking of flying to the Philippines when the child is about to be born, and have the child’s birth certificate registered, showing me as the natural mother. 


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Visas for fiance(e)s of non-immigrants?

By IMMIGRATION CORNER | By Michael J. Gurfinkel | November 6, 2011 - 12:00am

I am in the US, working for an employer under my H-1B visa. I left behind my long-time girlfriend in the Philippines, whom I hope to marry one day.

Opinion

What to do if your visa is refused/denied (Part 2)

By IMMIGRATION CORNER | By Michael J. Gurfinkel | February 22, 2009 - 12:00am

In a previous article, I discussed some items or suggestions that could possibly increase your chances of obtaining a visa, avoiding a refusal, or overcoming a refusal.

Opinion

'Humanitarian parole' for minor or special children being left behind

By IMMIGRATION CORNER | By Michael J. Gurfinkel | September 7, 2008 - 12:00am

Dear Attorney Gurfinkel:

Opinion

‘Alien smuggling’ requires an affirmative act of assistance

By IMMIGRATION CORNER | By Michael J. Gurfinkel | January 8, 2006 - 12:00am

Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (which is one level below the U.S. Supreme Court) held that a person was not guilty of alien smuggling, despite being fully aware that an illegal alien was in the trunk...

Opinion

Beware of adoption fraud

By IMMIGRATION CORNER | By Michael J. Gurfinkel | September 12, 2004 - 12:00am

Dear Attorney Gurfinkel: My husband and I are US citizens, and have been trying to have a child for several years now. My unmarried niece in the Philippines is pregnant, and is about to give birth. She is very...

Opinion