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Immigration Minute 2-22-2021

In our weekly series Immigration Minute, immigration attorney Mario Godoy gives you the week’s immigration news and updates in 1 minute. Mario shares this week’s immigration update on February 22, 2021.

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Welcome to the Immigration Minute with Godoy Law Office, where we give you the recent immigration updates in a minute.
This week we cover the U.S Citizenship Act of 2021. On February 18th the White House introduced its immigration reform bill.
The proposed law includes:
• A plan for an eight-year pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the U.S prior to January 1st of 2021. Now, Dreamers, farmworkers and TPS holders would immediately be eligible for a Green Card.
• Visas would be immediately available for the spouses and children under the age of 21 of Green Card holders.
• It removes the three and ten-year bars to re-entry for individuals that previously lived illegally in the United States. This provision alone will keep more immigrant families together.
• There are more protections for children and other vulnerable people in the immigration courts, providing funds for an attorney and eliminating the one-year limit for filing asylum cases.
• Increased protections for immigrants, reporting work violations and stiffer penalties for employers that knowingly hire undocumented immigrants.
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Mario Godoy
Mario Godoy
Immigration Lawyer and Illinois Crimmigration Attorney

Immigration Attorney Mario Godoy has years of experience guiding clients with immigration issues through the immigration process along with guiding clients through the criminal case. Godoy focuses on family-based immigration law, business immigration law, removal defense, and criminal defense representation of immigrants. A criminal charge or conviction can be devastating to your immigration case. With over a decade of immigration law experience and memories of family members who were deported due to bad legal advice, Godoy is committed to helping other immigrant families receive the legal justice they deserve. As a legal entrepreneur who practices immigration law, criminal law, estate and probate law, and running two successful law firms, Mario Godoy understands the importance of keeping families together and making a home and future in America.

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