Adjustment of Status for Derivative Asylees
Many of my nunc pro tunc asylum clients find their way to my blog post and ultimately retain my law firm after finding out that they are ineligible to adjust status. In most cases, the applicants are taken by surprise and learn of their ineligibility by a written decision from USCIS, denying their adjustment application,…
Adjustment of Status for Nunc Pro Tunc Asylees
As I explained in a previous blog post, there are a variety of ways that derivative asylees may lose their eligibility to file for adjustment of status. This can happen, for example, when the principal asylee becomes a U.S. citizen (or dies), or where the derivative asylee gets married. In these situations, while the derivative…
Nunc Pro Tunc Asylum Procedures
While not used very frequently, the Nunc Pro Tunc Asylum filing procedure is a huge benefit for derivative dependent aliens who are unable to adjust status because they have lost their relationship with their principal, usually inadvertently or through no fault of their own. “Nunc Pro Tunc“ is just a Latin phrase that means “now…
