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	<title>The Golden Door &#187; citizenship</title>
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		<title>The Advantages of Citizenship</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2014/11/18/advantages-citizenship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>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>
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		<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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		<title>Double jeopardy if your father, rather than your mother, is a U.S. citizen</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2010/10/03/citizenship-transmission-gender-discrimination-nguyen-v-ins-flores-villar-v-u-s/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2010/10/03/citizenship-transmission-gender-discrimination-nguyen-v-ins-flores-villar-v-u-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flores-Villar v. United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flores-Villar v. US]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In law school, I remember reading Nguyen v. INS (U.S. 2001).  This was an immigration case in which a young man, born out of wedlock in Vietnam to a U.S. citizen father and a Vietnamese mother and who had lived in the United States since he was six, was ordered deported after being convicted of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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