Delia de la Garza's Legal Blog

Living and working in Harris, Montgomery and other surrounding counties, I have become accustomed to clients in county jail facilities being held due to an immigration hold.  In Harris county, ICE has an officer assigned to interview detainees and figure out their immigration status, whether they are US citizens, lawful permanent residents or have no […]

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I received a decision just recently from an immigration judge in Houston granting an old client of mine cancellation of removal under the Violence Against Women Act(VAWA).  This decision essentially grants her a green card (lawful permanent resident status).  The decision took quite a while to obtain, but who could complain about the wait when the […]

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Recently, there was an attorney in Houston indicted on immigration fraud charges for allegedly assisting Chinese immigrants with filing false asylum claims.  Unfortunately, many people, whether attorneys or not, have found it easy to prey on the immigrant community.  Often times they promise more than can be delivered, and even worse they charge very unreasonable […]

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Dear fellow blog readers, I began writing this blog just a short time ago, and at first I was hoping noone would read my blogs, but then I wrote about some issues that I really care about.  All of the articles I have written have been mostly about immigration in some shape or form, and […]

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Many people ask  me this question.  It is also usually accompanied by “Isn’t is just filling out paperwork?”  The short of it is that immigration law is not just completing paperwork.  While the application or petition may be the end result of what the client sees, there is actually much thought and legal analyses that […]

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