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	<title>The Golden Door &#187; Citizenship and naturalization</title>
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		<title>Eliminating &#8220;residing in the US&#8221; for military service members &#8211; what it really means</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2019/09/02/signifying-policy-update-children-u-s-military-service-members/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2019/09/02/signifying-policy-update-children-u-s-military-service-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acquired citizenship]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This USCIS Policy Alert, among other things, modifies the USCIS agency's interpretation of the words, "residing in the United States" in a provision of immigration law, INA § 320, that controls how a child born abroad automatically acquires U.S. citizenship AFTER birth.
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		<title>The Advantages of Citizenship</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2014/11/18/advantages-citizenship/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2014/11/18/advantages-citizenship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driver's license]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I-9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage license]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permanent resident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security card]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a permanent resident who intends to live the rest of your life in the U.S. it makes sense to get your citizenship.  You have more rights as a citizen and are safe from deportation.]]></description>
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		<title>Expungements:  What you need to know before you expunge.</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/04/30/expungements-expunge/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/04/30/expungements-expunge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal law and immigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[criminal convictions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be tempting to get your criminal record expunged, but know before you do so that it can greatly complicate your application for immigration benefits because even expunged records must be disclosed in most immigration applications.]]></description>
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		<title>False claim of U.S. citizenship &#8211; beware this pitfall!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/01/19/false-claim-u-s-citizenship-beware-pitfall-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/01/19/false-claim-u-s-citizenship-beware-pitfall-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancellation of Removal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[false claim of US citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I-9]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As an immigration attorney, I find it important to make people aware of this potential pitfall. It may seem like a minor thing.  You, a non-U.S. citizen and lacking working papers, fill out a job application and check the box that says you are a U.S. citizen.  If you don&#8217;t check it, you don&#8217;t have [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Child Citizenship Act &#8211; derivative citizenship through a parent&#8217;s naturalization</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/01/18/child-citizenship-act-derivative-citizenship-parents-naturalization/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/01/18/child-citizenship-act-derivative-citizenship-parents-naturalization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancellation of Removal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Citizenship Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derivative citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naturalize]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently encountered a gentleman who lives under the cloud of a deportation order that cannot be executed.  He spent six months in immigration detention, the end result of which was he was released because while he was ordered removed from the United States his country of origin will not accept him.  So he is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dos Erres:  An international investigation impacting citizenship and asylum</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2012/09/28/dos-erres-international-investigation-impacting-citizenship-asylum/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2012/09/28/dos-erres-international-investigation-impacting-citizenship-asylum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asylum/refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political asylum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a lengthy but fascinating read:  &#8220;Finding Oscar:  Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala.&#8221; It is about a massacre committed by an army unit in Guatemala in 1982, and two young boys who survived the massacre because they were taken by soldiers responsible for the massacres and raised by the soldiers&#8217; families.  One boy, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. citizenship abroad, by birth &#8211; update</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2011/07/19/u-s-citizenship-abroad-birth-update/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2011/07/19/u-s-citizenship-abroad-birth-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration lawyer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here&#8217;s the update on the client who couldn&#8217;t renew his license to carry concealed weapons because he could not produce a U.S. birth certificate even though he is a U.S. citizen by birth. The Philadelphia Police Department&#8217;s Gun Permit Unit re-considered its position, and this gentleman has been issued his license to carry, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Selective Service and Naturalization</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2011/05/07/selective-service-naturalization/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2011/05/07/selective-service-naturalization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 15:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selective Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the draft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. citizenship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For men applying to become American citizens, an issue that often crops up is whether the applicant registered for Selective Service, the registration system for military-aged men so that they can be conscripted into military service if the draft is ever re-instated. Male U.S. citizens (&#8220;USCs&#8221;) and legal permanent residents (&#8220;LPRs&#8221;) born after December 31, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. citizenship by birth, abroad</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2011/05/06/u-s-citizenship-birth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2011/05/06/u-s-citizenship-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 23:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Catch-22 situation surfaced in my practice recently.  A man applying to renew his license to carry a concealed firearm (&#8220;CCF&#8221;) in Philadelphia was asked by Philadelphia Police to produce proof of his immigration status, since he was born abroad.  I&#8217;ll call him the Applicant.  The Applicant produced his valid U.S. passport, but this evidence [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>De Hieu Tran &#8211; another immigration scam artist</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2010/11/11/vietnamese-immigration-attorney/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2010/11/11/vietnamese-immigration-attorney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship and naturalization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[De Hieu Tran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kentwood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnamese]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 12, 2010, a 42-year-old Vietnamese man was arrested in Kentwood, Michigan, for falsely holding himself out to be a U.S. Marine and ICE officer, and for scamming the local Vietnamese community for immigration benefits. Only a licensed immigration lawyer or BIA accredited representative can perform this kind of service, and people seeking citizenship [&#8230;]]]></description>
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