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Hi, and welcome back to Unite Immigrant Families. I'm Rosemary Vega, and I'm an immigration attorney in Houston, Texas. And today I have Magali Candler. She is also an immigration attorney in Houston, Texas. Hi, Magali. How are you today? Hi, Rosemary. I'm doing great. Thank you for inviting me. It's a pleasure.It's always fun to have you on. So today I'm super, super excited becau

Hi, and welcome back to United Immigrant Families. My name is Rosemary Vega, and I'm an immigration attorney in Houston, Texas. Thank you for listening to the podcast. And today I want to talk about Texas, a fairly new Texas law called SB4. So Texas passed this legislation in November of 2023, and it was supposed to go into effect on March 5th of this year, 2024. However, this leg

Good morning and welcome back to Unite Immigrant Families. Rosemary Vega. I'm an immigration attorney here in Houston, Texas. know it's been some time my last podcast, but I'm back. Um, I felt like it was time that I recorded a podcast, especially right now because new fees that are going to be implemented April 1st. with the USCIS. Um, and some of these new fees are good. Some of

Immigration attorneys, Rosemary Vega and Magali Suarez Candler, discuss a new policy memo regarding the three and ten year bars and how it will affect people.

In this episode, immigration attorney, Rosemary Vega, discusses the naturalization process. She also discusses that citizenship is used interchangeably with naturalization, but how the 2 are actually different. She discusses and provides some examples of good moral character issues, especially when dealing with crimes and naturalization. She also discusses how the pandemic caused s

Rosemary Vega and Magali Candler, 2 esteemed immigration attorneys discuss the conditional green card or conditional residency. Why is it conditional, and what one needs to do to remove those conditions to get a permanent residency. They also discuss issues that may come up in removing the conditions, such as divorce and timing.

In this episode, Rosemary Vega and Magali Suarez Candler, both immigration attorneys, discuss request for evidence and notice of intent to deny, sometimes referred to as RFE and NOID. We discuss the importance of responding in a timely fashion and why USCIS may request more evidence or issue a notice of intent to deny.

In this episode, Elizabeth Mendoza and Rosemary Vega discuss TPS, Temporary Protected Status. What it is, who qualifies and how to go about doing applying if you qualify.

In this episode, Rebecca Kitson, Ana Maria Schwartz, and Rosemary Vega discuss waivers in the immigration context. we discuss what is a waiver, and when someone may need a waiver. We also discuss when there is not a waiver available.

In this episode, I have Chiqui Sanchez Kennedy and Vanessa Perez from GHIRP (Galveston Houston Immigrant representation project) we discuss Modern Day Slavery and immigration, in other words, human trafficking and how immigrants can get help in those situations. We talk about what is human trafficking, we discuss who can be trafficked and what can be done. We also discuss the T vis