Sunday, August 31, 2008

Cheap Lawyers USA Immigration

I heard from a immigration lawyer that did a lot of work in Asia in the refugee camps in the 80’s that the job of the US Customs and Immigration services (USCIS) and the employees at the US Embassy’s around the world, that are part of the US Visa process for foreigners, that their main job is to keep people out, not to help people get immigration visas in! I was surprised to hear this as I have this concept of the Statue of Liberty and the stuff I learned in history classes that the welcomes immiagrants with open arms, today this is no longer true.

Today to get visas into the US you need to be a professional like doctor’s nurses or technical experts in areas where there are not enough qualified people in the US to fill the jobs. Or you need to be a real cultural asset like a ballet star or be outstanding in some area that makes you a treasure of sorts. Another way is to be real lucky as they have a USA Visa lottery every year and they allow so many from each country to come in but even these visa lottery winners need to meet certain qualifications that for most in the 3rd world are out of reach.

Probably the easiest way to get an immigration visa to the USA is to marry a US Citizen in that regard the easiest way for many is to get a fiancée visa and then get married in the US then the paperwork later on is easier.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

US Cheap Lawyers Protect your legal rights!

Do not incriminate yourself

I love to hate to watch cop shows on TV or the movies where the bad guys tell the cops everything. I want everyone who reads this post to take only one thing away from it and it is this. The police main job is to arrest people despite what it says on the side of the car, so why would you tell them anything or help them in any way when they ask you questions when they are trying to their job which is to find a reason to arrest you?

Ask for a lawyer!


The police will ask you questions to confirm or to get more information to make a decision whether or not to arrest you, IF they have enough information they will arrest you regardless of if you talk or not! But if you don’t give them any additional information, by asking for a lawyer to be present during questioning, and they do not have enough evidence to arrest you, or they have marginal evidence to arrest you, you make the amount of work for your lawyer, who you pay for their time less, so you get cheaper lawyer fees.

Make the District Attorney Work For His Money!

If you are arrested, the District attorney (DA) will need to take the information that he has been given by the police and make a decision should they take it to court or not. District attorneys and assistant district attorneys are busy people and they like to be efficient, so given a choice many times they will dismiss the charges and you have escaped the machine for a lot less money than if you were a good citizen and gave the b everything that they needed to convict you and make the job of your attorney that much harder and that much more expensive.


Protect Your Legal Property Rights


Remember if a cop asks you for permission to do something like can you open the trunk or can you open the glove box up for me, tell them politely No, even if there is nothing in there. If they don’t need permission they are going to open it anyway! If you tell them no they need to decide if they have enough probable cause to search, if they search and they do not have a strong enough reason, any and all evidence that they gather will in most cases not be able to used against you. Basically as I understand it if you are not under arrest they can only search to protect there safety, so if you are speeding and do not resist in any way and they ask to search your trunk and you refuse to let them you could have 500 pounds of pot in there and they would in most cases not be able to use it in court if they opened the trunk with out your permission.

Monday, August 25, 2008

US Immigration - Cheap Shots

An Immigration law issue that we at Cheap Lawyers USA have taken an active interest in is the returnees. The current US administration has been using Immigration laws to reduce prison population & recidivism by deporting what we feel are in reality US citizens in that they have spent the majority of their lives in the USA and have no memories or experiences living anywhere else. We feel that the system has failed to protect the most vulnerable, underage children, which is for many a corner stone of democracy.

Refugee families from countries like Cambodia, Viet Nam & Nicaragua and other places that have had wars come to the United States to live a better life and to escape persecution. In many cases these families have kids that are younger than the age of 7, In many instances the families speak very little English if any and live in the poor neighborhoods with out adequate access to legal advise. The parents will not be aware nor are they made aware that if they do not get citizenship for their kids that should the kids be convicted of a crime like possession of a very small amount of drugs or drunk driving charges as young adults or older that they can and are now being deported back to the country that they cane from, which for these kids they have no experience and most times don’t speak the language or have any family or social connection in the country that they were born. We feel strongly that this is cruel and unusual punishment.

We feel strongly that there should be legislation created that if a child that is under the age of 7 and has lived in the USA for more than 7 years that they be given automatic citizenship or a automatic irrevocable status that protects them from being deported against their will.

We would like to see also included a proviso that would allow those who have been deported a hearing to reassess and determine whether or not that the circumstances that they find themselves in would qualify them because of persecution to refugee status with provisos that will allow them to gain citizenship even if they have a prior felony conviction after demonstrating through a probationary period if they meet the qualification of came to the US before the age of 7 and lived in the USA for the majority of their life.

How do you feel about it? please write your comments we publish all points of view and encourage debate.