King County Bar: Adam Boyd: A Rising Star in Immigration Law

King County BarPosted on: May 1, 2023Bar Bulletin Blog: Profile Halfway through his thirties, Adam Boyd has racked up a surprisingly extensive list of professional accomplishments. He has sailed out of the trenches of public defense work in Massachusetts into a crim-imm focused solo practice in Tacoma and straight on to the top of the career ladder as managing…

DHS Announces Extension of REAL ID Full Enforcement Deadline

Release Date: December 5, 2022 DHS has indicated that it will delay the full implementation of the REAL ID act until May 2025. This has major implications for domestic travel and will still allow individuals with non-enhanced Washington driver’s licenses to pass through airport security on domestic flights. This provides a huge relief to undocumented individuals…

Supporting litigation with American Immigration Council

When the U.S. government told immigrants who had been waiting for years that they couldn’t become American citizens because their records were locked in government caves, we sued. Earlier this year, we filed a lawsuit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the National Archives. The agencies dragged their feet in retrieving people’s immigration files…

Immigrants and Their Advocates File Class Action Lawsuit Against USCIS and DHS for Unlawful Delays in Adjudicating Applications for Employment Authorization

Seattle, WA – Last Friday, three immigrants and two immigration service providers filed a nationwide class action lawsuit here in Seattle against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for unlawfully delaying the adjudication of their applications for employment authorization. Filed by the American Immigration Council, Northwest Immigrant Rights…

Federal District Court Orders Department of State to Issue Passport

The federal court in Seattle recently found that Washington resident Carlos Acosta was a U.S. citizen and ordered the State Department to renew his passport.  Acosta was born in a relative’s home in Colorado, and then returned to Mexico shortly thereafter.  Because the birth was registered both in Colorado and Mexico, the court considered family…

Seattle Federal Court Finds USCIS and Department of State Manipulated the Record and Abused the Judicial Process in J-1 Waiver Litigation, and Awards Bad Faith Attorney’s Fees

In a recent federal court case in Seattle, District Judge Ricardo Martinez harshly criticized the USCIS and State Department for manipulating the record and consistently making misrepresentations to the court about the evidence that it considered in a J-1 waiver adjudication. The court awarded over $50,000 in attorney’s fees to Linda Guerra and her husband…

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