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Joshua Daley Paulin87 Summer Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02110617.482.4669 (English & Spanish)
617.482.3463 (Portuguese)
617.338.6780 (fax)Attorney Paulin's immigration caseload includes: Deportation Defense, Asylum, Cancellation of Removal, Naturalization, Family Visas (adjustment of status and consular processing), Employment based immigrant visas, Nonimmigrant Visas, including: H-1B - Professionals; K-1 - K-4 Fiancee and family member visas; L-1 - Intracompany transferees; O-1 - Aliens of Extraordinary Ability; and R-1 - Religious Workers. He also handles select criminal matters in the Massachusetts courts. Besides his native English, Attorney Paulin speaks Spanish and Portuguese; his staff speaks Italian and French besides the languages mentioned.
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Category Archives: Permanent Residence/Green Cards
How to get a green card when the beneficiary is outside of the U.S.
Posted on March 14, 2007 By Joshua Paulin
Help for victims of abuse
Posted on February 24, 2007 By Joshua Paulin
The Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA is a fairly complex area of immigration law, but simply put, relief may be available if a person (man or woman) can show the following:
He or she is married to – or is an unmarried child under 21 of a person who
has married - a United States Citizen […]
Conditional Residence through marriage to a U.S. Citizen, Part 2
Posted on February 16, 2007 By Joshua Paulin
What about situations where the couple cannot file a joint petition for one reason or another?
As mentioned earlier, some of these situations would be:
separation;
divorce or annulment;
death of petitioner;
extreme hardship; and
spousal/parental abuse.
Separation is the most problematic. If the couple is separated, and there is no final divorce decree, the non-citizen spouse and children cannot file […]
Conditional Residence through marriage to a U.S. Citizen, Part 1
Posted on February 9, 2007 By Joshua Paulin
As mentioned in a previous post, if the foreign national who got a green card through marriage to a U.S. Citizen was married under two years (or if a child got Permanent Residence through his or her U.S. Citizen Stepparent prior to the second wedding anniversary) when the Permanent Residence was granted, the green card […]
Obtaining a green card through marriage to a U.S. Citizen
Posted on February 5, 2007 By Joshua Paulin
When permanent residence, or the “green card” is acquired in the United States, the process is called Adjustment of Status. When it is acquired outside of the United States, in a consulate or embassy, the process is called “Consular Processing.” I’ll be talking about Adjustment of Status today.
As with most immigration processes, there is a […]
