The key to getting into the type of law you want to practice is getting an internship in the area of law you wish to practice. In order to do that, take classes that will be relevant to immigration law, including international law and tax classes. Even if there aren’t a lot in your area, try to find internships in other cities (if you can afford to travel there for the summer). Then, start your own firm when you pass the bar! Or, take the bar in a state that does a lot of immigration work, like California, Florida or Texas. Best of luck!

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He should probably get papers… it’s not about “using” you its about keeping yer family together and giving your son a better life… if he really loves you and his son you should tell him to take a humility pill and do what needs to be done for the family regardless of the hit his pride takes…

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I would hire a lawyer. You’ll need to file paperwork and prove also that your marriage is not just to obtain a green card if you plan on staying in the US with your spouse.

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Canada Leads the Property Pack

We all know just how grim the final months of 2008 were in the international property market. Prices plummeted, estate agents boarded up their shopfronts and the economic pundits predicted more gloom. As the UK left the “noughties” and entered the “twenty-tens”,  the situation remained unglowing: at the end of 2009, home prices in the UK were down 1.6% from the same time in 2008, and in the US they dropped by 3.6%. Leading the global real estate recovery, however, is Canada, where home prices rose by 19%.  Good news for sellers, not so good news for buyers, especially buyers coming new to the property market there, looking to buy their first home or holiday home in Canada.

However, the situation is set to brighten for buyers intending on purchasing in the second half of 2010 or in 2011.  A rising number of new properties coming on the market will give buyers more choice, the anticipated rise in mortgage rates in July could slow down turnover and the introduction of HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) in British Columbia and Ontario on 1 July means the current race to buy property there before the deadline will end. All of these factors should cool the heated demand for homes, which, combined with solid increases in the number of properties being offered for sale, means that buyers will be in a stronger position.

Of course, Canada is one big country, with big variations in the real estate markets province by province. Average house prices vary wildly as you move from the Pacific to the Atlantic. At the higher end of the market, the current hotspots are Kelowna, British Columbia, and Montreal in Quebec, followed by Victoria, BC, and Ontario’s main city of Toronto. Meanwhile, Vancouver continues to be the most expensive city in Canada in which to buy property, with the average house price sitting at C$693,482 (almost £450,000). In Alberta, on the other hand, the cost of the average house in Calgary rose by a comparatively small 8% during 2009. [See table at end of article.]

The continuing strength of the Canadian dollar to the pound means that cost of buying property in Canada for Britons is not the bargain it once was. Certain regions of the country still offer excellent value for money, however, for those who cannot afford the BC lifestyle (and prices). On the far side the country from the multi-million-dollar oceanfront homes of British Columbia, Nova Scotia on the Atlantic offers the millionaire lifestyle at very reasonable prices. Just outside of the sailing mecca of Chester and only 45 minutes from Halifax is a luxury waterfront villa development, where you can purchase an off-plan custom designed three-bedroom, two-bathroom villa for just over £250,000 and admire your yacht from your terrace. Or, if award-winning architecture, lots of land and lake frontage plus a private island is more to your taste, outside of Yarmouth is a spectacular post-and-beam timber frame home that sits on more than 57.3 lakefront acres, including a private two-acre island, on the market for under £650,000.

AVERAGE COST OF A HOME

(Canadian Real Estate Association CREA MLS statistics for March 2010)

British Columbia

516,970

Yukon

292,966

Alberta

362,231

Saskatchewan

239,716

Northwest Territories

318,222

Manitoba

219,046

Ontario

349,405

Quebec

241,566

New Brunswick

155,110

Newfoundland

234,403

Prince Edward Island

139,938

Nova Scotia

211,172

Buying property in Canada is a more civilized and efficient process than it is in the United Kingdom, with laws in place to protect the buyer and the seller. Anyone trading in real estate has to be professionally qualified and licensed, and each provincial board licenses its own agents, who are known as realtors. The MLS or Multiple Listing System is an excellent initial search tool to find out what’s available and what it costs. The public portal to this proprietary database is www.realtor.ca. The huge advantage of the MLS system, from a buyer’s perspective, is that you don’t have to go along a high street visiting every estate agent in town to ensure that you’ve seen everything on the market that might suit you. Use a licensed estate agent to help you through the process. Their services are free to buyers, and they’ll know the questions to ask that you don’t about any given property. This is a mistake I made when I purchased my first home in Canada: I saw an ad for a property I liked in the local newspaper, rang the agent and made an appointment to view; liked it even more and put in an offer, without conditions. Why? Because I didn’t know the appropriate conditions to ask for, or even that I could attach conditions. Why? Because the agent was representing the seller, not me the buyer, and while he had to deal with me honestly and fairly, I wasn’t his client and it wasn’t his duty to protect my interests or to advise me. And I found myself with a cottage where the well dried up every summer. In any property transaction in Canada you want to be the client, not the customer. Like lawyers, realtors owe their client a duty of care that they don’t to a customer. If you are only their customer, they cannot negotiate on your behalf, or recommend a price other than the seller’s asking price.

There is a growing number of estate agents in Canada who are relocation specialists, working long-term with new and potential immigrants not just with their home purchase, but coordinating with recommended immigration and property lawyers, accountants and contractors, as well has helping entrepreneurial immigrants acquire turn-key businesses. In Nova Scotia, for example, you can live and work on a beach that is so picturesque it once featured on the Canadian $50 bill. The eco-friendly four-star cottage complex even comes with a detailed operating manual, all for just over £500,000. Or if you fancy running a bed and breakfast with a professional chef’s kitchen just steps from the ocean and deep water moorage, there’s one new to the market at approximately £255,000.

The forecast for the Canadian economy, which grew by 5% last year, is good and inflation is running at 2%. And, with a more balanced real estate market just around the corner, acquiring property in Canada in the near future is an excellent investment in preparation for a new life.

Kilmeny Jane Denny is the UK’s only licensed Nova Scotia property consultant and the director of Second Home Nova Scotia. www.secondhomenovascotia.com

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Kilmeny Jane Denny is the UK’s only licensed Nova Scotia property consultant, helping British buyers find homes, businesses and a new life in Canada’s Atlantic Playground

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i lived with my husband many years in egypt as contractor. many mixed marriages i have seen and many green cards to the usa for egyptians.
you marry him there! but not at embassy, you must go to the shar el akari (he will know, where it is). then you proceed the papers to us embassy and after your marriage is recognized and all papers translated he will get a visa to usa. fiance visa takes forever later to get the green card.
the whole process will take you at least 2 month in egypt and later in usa he will wait about a year for his greencard, ssn and workpermit.
but open speaking…. don’t marry him! the cultural differences are way to big and in my friends it turned out to be at least 70 % divorce rate. plus be prepared, that you have to convert to muslim to marry him. if you don’t have a problem with this fact, ok……

Immigration Attorney Helps Others Realize The American Dream

A criminal arrest can seriously impede your success in life. Even if the courts found you to be not guilty, the fact that you have an arrest record, that you were a defendant in a criminal case, particularly for a felony, makes it harder to get a job and to obtain licensure for certain professions. An immigrant may face deportation and his or her status application denied if there’s an arrest record. Who would not want to seal their arrest record or make it disappear if they could?

Under certain circumstances your criminal arrest records may be sealed or expunged. To expunge something means to wipe it out, obliterate it, erase it, and that’s what happens with expungement. While state laws vary, typically an expunged record is actually physically destroyed. A sealed criminal arrest record is literally sealed in an envelope and locked in a secure place without access. Whether your records are expunged or sealed, the effect is the same: no one can legally access your criminal record without a court order.

You must file an application for expungement with the courts. You do not have to hire an attorney to do this for you, but it may be worth it. Experienced attorneys know the laws and procedures to follow in their states and how best to get an application through the court system successfully.

In Florida, for example, you can have your arrest record expunged if the charges against you were dropped, if you were found not guilty, if the charges against you were dismissed, or if the court decides not to file charges against you. As long as you were cleared of the charges either by being found not guilty or by having your case dismissed, dropped, or not filed, you may be able to get your record expunged. If you pled guilty or no contest or have been found guilty, you may be able to have your arrest record sealed if the judge “withholds adjudication,” which means the court found you guilty but did not convict you. You may have to be on probation or perform community service, but if your arrest resulted in “adjudication withheld” your record may qualify for expungement. There are exceptions, and that’s where an experienced attorney can be of assistance.

In Florida there is no statute of limitations on expunging or sealing past arrest records. An individual can, however, get an expungement or sealing of a criminal record only one time. Certain juvenile cases or cases of mistaken arrest can be expunged without being considered as your one opportunity for expungement.

Under certain circumstances you may have to reveal your criminal record even if it has been expunged. These situations include, among others, applying for legal or criminal justice work or applying for jobs working with children, the elderly, or people with developmental disabilities. While there are some limits to the effectiveness of sealing or expunging your criminal record, it the majority of situations it can give you a new lease on life; you can resume your life with a clean slate.

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1st Step – Decision to move

During the last couple of years the Dominican Republic became a home of higher quantities of foreign investors or whole families coming here from abroad.

Which are the principal reasons why to choose Dominican Republic?

• Very stable economy
• Unlimited business opportunities in industry production, services, tourism, export and import
• Nice tropical weather whole year
• Variable and in many places still virgin beautiful nature
• Friendly and helpful local people

2nd Step – Prepare documents to submit your application

Which documents are necessary to submit your application for Dominican residency and work permit?

• Medical exams (it must be done here in Santo Domingo by Immigration doctors)
• Full copy (all pages) of your passport
• Three sets of your photographs (front and side)
• Notarized, officially translated into Spanish and legalized Birth Certificate
• Dominican citizen who is required by the local authorities as a personal guarantee for your application
• Postal address in Dominican Republic

3rd Step – Immigration process

It is strongly recommended to start the process as soon as you reach the country and settle, because you can start your immigration during the turist visa. The first step is to visit the Immigration Office with all the papers for application, you will pass the medical exams (Blood-test and X-ray). At the moment of the acceptation of your file in the Immigration Office, you will receive four digit registration number (which is the number of your file in the Dominican Immigration system) and based on this number you can start immediately to work or do business in Dominican Republic because you are officially considered as a person who has his application in process.

Tip! Is better to bring with you an Spanish speaking, the staff in Immigration Office is really nice and mostly they can speak English with you, but with Spanish you will really speed things up.

4th Step – Settling in new country

Now you have time to settle in and make yourself comfortable in your new home.

Because Dominican Republic is an island, it have own problems – reliable supply of power or water has not yet been achieved. When you will rent or buy an apartment or a house ask everytime for own alternate sources: Planta (gas generator), Inversor (backup power in batteries – like UPS) and for Tinaco (water tank in top of building). When the power goes down for 2-3 hours, it is good to have at least one backup to run the basic (light, fridge, TV, etc.).

Tip! Find a local person to help you with ads for apratment or house, will achieved better prices.

5th Step – Business company

The time to finish your residency process vary from 3 – 4 months from the moment that you submit your application. You can use this time to open a Dominican local business company with bank account, get needed licences for special type of business, such as import or export of medicaments or other controlled products by the state.

What do you need to open a business company with bank account?

• According to the new Business Law of the Dominican Republic 2 persons as owners of the company (before there had to be seven persons)
• Copy of your passport or new Dominican ID “cedula”
• Postal address in Dominican Republic for your company

6th Step – Naturalization (citizenship)

You are living in a new environment and culture, you have a new life, business company and new experiences. You felt in love with Dominican Republic and you want to become a citizen with full rights and advantages of this country?

You can apply for the Dominican citizenship normally after two years of obtaining the permanent residency in the country but the substantial advantage consists in the fact that you do not need to be physically in the country all the time. There are also some exceptions determined by Dominican authorities, for example in case of foreign investors, when you can apply for the Dominican citizenship practically after one year.

What you will get with citizenship?

• Full citizenship and not only so called “economical” citizenship which is offered in most of Caribbean and Central American countries
• Same rights as native Dominican with only one exception – you can not be elected as president of the country
• Free travel visa for example to Israel, Japan, South Korea, Uruguay, Argentina, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador and others
• Your Dominican ID card “cédula de identidad” will be changed for new one, the same as any native Dominican has
• New Dominican Birth Certificate
• Your Dominican travel passport

7th Step – Last step is your first step to become a citizen of Dominican Republic

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Many countries nowadays are taking fewer immigrants due to the receding economy but for Canada, immigration has remained steady. The projected figures for 2009 are between 240,000 and 265,000 new permanent residents. This is about the highest the country has seen in the past 15 years. Canada remains committed to its immigration program that balances the types of immigrants between economic, humanitarian, and family reunification. Most immigrants come in the economic category at a projection of 156,000 for 2009, whilst the family category is expected at 71,000, and 37,400 in the humanitarian category.

2008 also had a high number of Canada immigrants, at 247,202 permanent residents. This was 70,000 more than a decade ago. Many more immigrants came in the form of students or temporary workers, bringing the total to 519,722. With the labour market having a high demand for temporary foreign workers, this number met the employers’ needs. However, many believe that Canada should reduce such figures. Those in the Ministry say that they will not follow that advice. They are maintaining previous goals and believe that by limiting Canada immigration, this would decrease supply in the labour market and limit multiculturalism.

However, Canada has somewhat tightened its immigration policy due to the recession. These restrictions are to try to increase immigrants in certain industries, but with only so many available positions, this limits those who do not meet the requirements. The Action Plan for Faster Immigration outlines 38 high demand occupations such as health, skilled trades, and finance. If an immigrant doesn’t fall into that category, have an offer arranged with an employer, or is not already living in Canada, immigration will be limited. The list of 38 was developed from consultations with province and territory officials as well as with business owners. These new regulations bring Canada closer to its main competition for skilled labour; New Zealand and Australia, who have both recently managed to eliminate backlogs of unqualified immigrants.

The creation of a new Experience Class of immigrants also opened up to workers and students who wish for Canada immigration. This is a new way for temporary foreign workers and graduates with advanced degrees to enter the country, or remain there after completing their education or duration of work, for permanent residence. It allows an applicant’s time in Canada to be a key deciding factor in their immigration application process. The hope is to remain competitive in attracting and retaining skilled individuals.

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