I have written, here  and here about a lawsuit filed in November 2010 by the City of San Francisco and by former clients of unlicensed attorney Martin Resendez Guajardo. Guajardo was accused of representing and advising clients after he resigned from the State Bar of California. Further, the class action alleged that Guajardo and San Diego-based attorney Christopher Stender, Immigration Practice Group, a law firm owned by Stender, and potentially others committed fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and other related…

On December 3, 2013, President Obama’s uncle, Onyango Obama, was allowed to become a permanent resident of the United States. News reports, as nearly always happens, are not entirely accurate in their explanation of events and the law (there is an old adage that the more a reader knows about a topic, the more a newspaper account is wrong), I will read between the lines and try to lay out what happened. It appears Mr. Obama (the uncle), came to…

Government agencies. There are lots of them. Their functions overlap. People uninvolved from day to day with the interaction of government agencies and learn about them from the media are probably most aware of the interactivity of the intelligence agencies. A fault found after 9-11 was the failure of the many intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies with intelligence functions to interact. Immigration law execution and enforcement are controlled by several agencies in different departments. There is the Department of…

When I first started practicing immigration law, I would advise clients who were not U.S. citizens or permanent residents not to fly into the United States at Detroit. The officers, I was told, were treating people unfairly though I had no first-hand knowledge of problems there. Then, one day, I got a call from a gentleman who had come to see me about an investor visa, an E-2, to invest in an enterprise in La Jolla, California. He told me…