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	<title>The Golden Door &#187; U.S. citizenship</title>
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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>Rumblings of immigration reform&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/02/01/rumblings-immigration-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read through the &#8220;Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform,&#8221; put together by a group of eight U.S. Senators, and the White House&#8217;s four-point platform on immigration reform, both statements which are (deliberately, no doubt) fairly similar in substance. My first impression: Good things:  both statements agree that (1) there should be a route for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Selective Service and Naturalization</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2011/05/07/selective-service-naturalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 15:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the draft]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 23:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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		<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. 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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