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	<title>The Golden Door &#187; Family-based immigration</title>
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		<title>Same-sex marriage cases post-Windsor</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/08/01/same-sex-marriage-cases-post-windsor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that DOMA's definition of marriage as being limited to a union between a man and a woman has been held unconstitutional, USCIS is now accepting applications from same-sex married couples. ]]></description>
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		<title>Eulogy for my Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eulogy for my dad, delivered at his funeral, and a coda to my prior post about his life.]]></description>
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		<title>Fraud or misrepresentation &#8211; a small mistake can derail a case</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/03/29/fraud-misrepresentation-small-mistake-derail-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished an adjustment of status case which should have been straight-forward.  It involved an elderly couple, both originally from Jamaica.  They had been married for decades, then divorced after wife moved to the United States and they grew apart.  She re-married, to a U.S. citizen, and got her permanent resident status and then [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Do you have anyone I can marry?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2012/02/03/do-marry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you have who found true love with a foreign national, it can be bewildering how much paperwork you have to file to get permanent resident status for your spouse so that you can both live together here in America. You may think, &#8220;We love each other and want to live together.  This [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Can I send her home?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2011/05/16/can-send-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 03:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The flip side of marriage-based immigration is when the marriage goes sour. For couples who have been married less than two years by the time the petition for permanent resident status is filed, the immigrant spouse gets what is known as conditional permanent residency for a period of two years.  At the end of this [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Operation Morning Glory&#8221; &#8212; Marriage fraud in Salt Lake City</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2010/09/25/operation-morning-glory-marriage-fraud-in-salt-lake-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In August 2006, during a sting dubbed &#8220;Operation Morning Glory,&#8221; federal immigration agents raided the homes and businesses of dozens of Vietnamese-Americans suspected of involvement in a large-scale marriage visa fraud ring.  During that sweep, the feds netted 24 to 31 Vietnamese-Americans in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, who had recruited Utahns to enter [&#8230;]]]></description>
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