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Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

US Is Lifting Some Travel Restrictions In Early November

The United States announced on September 20 that it is lifting Covid-related travel restrictions for 33 countries in early November: • will lift the ban on most travelers from 33 countries including the European Union, China, Iran, South Africa, Brazil...

DACA

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

Dreamers Eligible for Pandemic Relief

The Biden Administration announced on May 10 that all students, including Dreamers and undocumented students, will be eligible for Federal COVID-19 pandemic relief if they've been enrolled at a U.S. college or university since March 13, 2020. Refugees, asylum-seekers and...

Trump Visa

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

Guest Worker Visa Restrictions Extended Through March

On December 30 President Trump extended an executive order that temporarily adds new immigration restrictions on guest workers during the COVID pandemic. Work visa suspensions were first put into effect for 60 days on April 22, 2020; then on June...

Immigration News

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

Los inmigrantes indocumentados son elegibles para la vacuna COVID

Con el lanzamiento de 2 vacunas COVID aprobadas por la FDA en diciembre, se alienta tanto a las personas que aún no han tenido el coronavirus como a las que ya han tenido un caso confirmado de COVID a vacunarse....

Deportation

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

La corte impide que Trump expulse a niños migrantes durante una pandemia

Un juez federal de los EE. UU. Dictaminó el miércoles que la administración Trump no puede expulsar a niños migrantes no acompañados como parte de las órdenes pandémicas del gobierno. El juez federal de distrito Emmet Sullivan dictaminó que la...

Deportation

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

Court Blocks Trump From Expelling Migrant Children During Pandemic

A U.S. federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration cannot expel unaccompanied migrant children as part of the government's pandemic orders. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the COVID pandemic was being used as an illegal tactic...

Deportation ICE

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

Do You Have COVID Concerns For a Loved One Detained By ICE?

Calling it 'a stain on our country,' a professor at Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health says ICE is failing to stop the spread of COVID in detention centers. Detainees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention...

Illinois Immigration

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

Undocumented Status Doesn’t Prevent Free COVID Tests

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot reminded residents that an undocumented status or a lack of money shouldn't prevent anyone from getting tested for COVID. In Chicago, every resident can get a free COVID-19 test at city sites. Any resident who had...

Immigration

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

Inspecciones a viajeros serán implementadas a través de la revisión de Redes Sociales

Los oficiales de la salud en Chicago implementarán la revisión de redes sociales de aquellas personas que se crea han visitado o viajado a través de estados con altos números de casos de COVID, y no hayan seguido el mandato...

Illinois Immigration

Mario Godoy - Owner/Attorney

Chicago COVID Travel Quarantine Enforced By Social Media Checks

Chicago health officials will implement social media checks on the accounts of people they believe have visited or traveled through states with a high number of COVID cases, and have not followed the city's 14-day self-quarantine mandate. The city of...

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