Green card, visa applicants face greater scrutiny over past traffic, other violations
The American Bazaar features immigration attorney Rekha Sharma-Crawford on a troubling shift in USCIS adjudications: even minor traffic violations and long-resolved issues are resurfacing in green card and visa reviews. Sharma-Crawford points to a physician with no criminal history whose adjustment-of-status application was denied in part over two traffic tickets, warning that otherwise approvable cases […]
“Stay the Course”: Immigration Lawyer Urges Calm Amid US Green Card Anxiety
StratNews Global features immigration attorney Rekha Sharma-Crawford addressing growing anxiety over USCIS guidance that appears to steer more employment-based green card applicants toward consular processing abroad instead of adjustment of status in the United States. She explains why the policy may conflict with existing immigration law, why court challenges are likely, and why affected applicants […]