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  • Jan. 11, 2012

    Mom can stay in U.S. while deportation case is reviewed

    A woman who was scheduled to be deported to Mexico today after living illegally in metro Detroit since she was 11 will instead be free to go home while her case is under review. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials granted Leslie Hernandez, 25, a temporary stay of deportation on Monday. ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls confirmed today's scheduled release in a statement, saying "ICE has administratively halted this removal pending further review." After Hernandez is released from the St. Clair County Jail, she will be required to report to ICE periodically, Walls said. She... Read More

  • Aug. 18, 2011

    Deportations to focus on people who have been convicted of crimes or pose a security risk

    Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced an agency-wide expansion of prosecutorial discretion guidelines that will hopefully allow immigration officials to focus their enforcement efforts on targeting dangerous criminals. DHS also announced the creation of a joint committee with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that will review nearly 300,000 immigration cases currently in removal proceedings to determine whether cases are low priority enough to be closed. The factors for determining low priority cases were outlined last June in a memo issued by Immigration and Customs ... Read More

  • Aug. 2, 2011

    Initiatives to Promote Startup Enterprises and Spur Job Creation

    WASHINGTON: —Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas today outlined a series of policy, operational, and outreach efforts to fuel the nation's economy and stimulate investment by attracting foreign entrepreneurial talent of exceptional ability or who otherwise can create jobs, form startup companies, and invest capital in areas of high unemployment. "The United States must continue to attract the best and brightest from around the world to invest their talents, skills, and ideas to grow our econo... Read More

  • Dec. 6, 2010

    Detroit woman facing deportation given reprieve

    A native of Mexico who has lived in Detroit for 20 years had faced deportation as soon as this week. But Immigrations and Custom Enforcement granted a three-month extension after intervention by Congressman John Conyers, along with a group of protesters outside the immigration building in Detroit Monday morning. Celene Hernandez, would have been separated from her American-born children, one of which has cerebral palsy. She tells WWJ’s Ron Dewey her child would not have been able to get treatment back in Mexico. “It’s impossible to get treatment in Mexico; I want to stay here wi... Read More

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    Immigration Daily News

    Find out what are the most stringent immigration law issues and stay informed by reading daily news from ILW.com, a well-known immigration law publisher. George P. Mann & Associates PC | Michigan immigration lawyers| is a law firm based in Farmington Hills representing clients throughout Michigan, the United States and around the globe. With a multilingual staff fluent in Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Albanian, Hungarian, French, Italian and Latvian, we assist clients in obtaining green cards based on family, employment... Read More

  • Apr. 29, 2010

    Summary of Immigration Reform proposal

    On April 29th, Congressional Senators Reid, Schumer and Menendez released an outline of a Comprehensive Immigration Reform proposal called “Real Enforcement with Practical Answers for Immigration Reform” (REPAIR) Act to repair the nation’s broken immigration system. The full Immigration Reform Bill is expected to be formally introduced shortly. Some of the highlights of the immigration-related provisions include: family-immigration backlog reduction, reclassification of spouses and children of Green Card holders as "Immediate relatives", Permanent partners of U.S. citizens and Green Ca... Read More

  • Feb. 7, 2010

    Man Risks Life for Country Not His Own

    Naji Chammout says the U.S. government trusts him enough to translate for top military commanders in Iraq, but not enough to become a U.S. citizen. "I've waited and waited and waited since 2002 for them to approve my citizenship request, and it's never come," said Chammout, 42, of Dearborn. He and his lawyer, George Mann of Farmington Hills, said Chammout has spent $20,000 in application fees, legal charges and travel expenses on a request that should have cost no more than $1,500 and taken less than a year to approve. They said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS, won... Read More

  • May 21, 2006

    Farmington Hills lawyer’s roots help him help others

    The sign on George Mann’s desk says: “We specialize in the impossible”. For better part of two decades, the 58-year-old Romanian-born immigration lawyer in Farmington Hills has been doing just that, helping hundreds of immigrants obtain political asylum, avoid deportationand obtain documents to live and work in the United States. “The key to this country’s greatness is its mix of people from all over the world with different customs and the common dream to do something to improve their lives” Mann said this month after his selection as litigator of the year by the 300-member Mich... Read More