By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano The new stimulus bill as it stands, increases the existing child tax credit (CTC) to as much as $3,600 per child -- that's in addition to the $1,400 per dependent in the stimulus check. It would also let families receive the...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano The governments' support for the Covid-19 pandemic in Cares Act provides stimulus checks of $1200 initially and another $600 thereafter. Then there is the coming stimulus bill in Congress , the American Rescue Plan, providing for $1400 stimulus checks for most...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 submitted to Congress this month contains various proposals to change the U.S. Immigration law. We will discuss this time the Family-Based Immigration. The most significant change would be Family members of U.S. citizens and green card...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano President Biden directs the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop the deportation of illegal immigrants. In addition, he wanted a 100 days moratorium on deportation. Only those who are threat to our national security and public safety should be deported. Press secretary...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano The comprehensive immigration reform bill has not been filed in Congress because there is a developing plan to include the reform bill as part of the Covid Relief Package. The reason is because adding the reform bill to the relief package...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano The Biden Administration submitted to congress its proposed bill on immigration reform that will give undocumented persons a Pathway to U.S. Citizenship. Certain undocumented individuals who have paid their taxes and passed criminal background checks would be able to apply for...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano President Joe Biden will fulfill a promise to release on day one a bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration system that offers undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, expands use of technology at the southern border instead of relying on a...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has recommended that “all individuals in the United States and its territories should receive the vaccine…irrespective of their legal status,” but little explicit planning has been devoted to vaccine distribution among undocumented people....
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano As part of the $900 billion coronavirus relief package passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump the U.S. government will allow mixed-status households with undocumented family members to receive stimulus checks that they were denied under the first round of legislation in...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano President Elect Joe Biden Promised during the campaign to reform the immigration system of the United States in the first 100 days in office. As this year comes to an end and the inauguration of Joe Biden as the next president of...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano While the executive actions that Trump used to restrict immigration may be reversed in one day by President elect Joe Biden, the Asylum processing at the southern border will take a while. President-elect Joe Biden's incoming administration warned that any transformational...
By Atty. Chris Caday Lozano With the primary purpose of restricting legal immigration, Trump has repeatedly said that he wants to end birthright citizenship, the constitutional guarantee to all children born in America, regardless of their parents’ nationality, which he sees as a factor that draws...