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Know your obligations:

As a visitor to Roby Law Associates, PLLC seeking legal advice you should know that legal services are strictly on a case-by-case basis, and also that:

• You are not a client. You have not retained our firm to provide any legal services to you. As such, you alone are responsible for your legal situation.

• Changes in facts change the nature and cost of our legal services.

• Timely action is the mainstay of good immigration and citizenship practice. There may be an expiry date after which you could be prejudiced.

• Nonimmigrant aliens should always maintain lawful status in the U.S. Failure to do so may be excused by USCIS or other governmental agency but, typically, only when there are unusual circumstances sufficient to excuse such failure.

• If you are unlawfully present in the U.S. for more than 180 days, voluntarily departing from the U.S. may actually trigger in many cases an alien’s legal inadmissibility of 3 years. This is known as a “three year bar”. If you are unlawfully present in the U.S. for more than 1 year, voluntarily departing from the U.S. may actually trigger in many cases legal inadmissibility for 10 years, known as a “ten year bar”. There are, however, special rules for victims of trafficking or violence which may excuse certain legal mistakes. Each period of inadmissibility is subject to limited rights to a Form I-601 or other waiver of inadmissibility which is complicated and generally difficult to obtain (e.g., based on extreme hardship to a USC/PR spouse/parent and, possibly, USC/PR child).

• Immigration and citizenship issues are complicated because of changing administrative agency rules, police enforcement decisions, new federal statutes and regulations, Presidential Proclamations, federal and U.S. Supreme Court decisions, agency appellate decisions, and because of emergent world political or economic events.

• As immigration law is subject to so many internal and external forces, legal advice given today does not necessarily hold true tomorrow or the day after. We recommend two governmental sources of general information on U.S. immigration law, uscis.gov & travel.state.gov.