Thailand Visa USA: The G28 At the time of writing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is to enact a new form G-28. This form is used to indicate the presence of a lawyer or an authorized representative in a case pending before the USCIS or another branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. Citizens date, the court, and marry people from countries other than the United States. Therefore, a significant number of immigration applications are submitted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Often, the beneficiary and petitioner decided to deal with the immigration issue by themselves, in this case, the G28 will not need to be made as there is no lawyer involved. A G-28 is a method of informing the government of the United States as an accredited representative has entered an appearance in the case, it is usually presented by a lawyer from the United States.
An important difference between the old and the new version of the form G28 is that the new form requires the states in which agency the matter is pending. For example, if the case raises the Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP), then the attorney will check the box that states that the attorney is representing the client in a case before the PBC. If the lawyer represents a client who had been apprehended by the organization known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), then he or she will be required to indicate that the G28 is made in the context of a pending case to the ICE.
When a G28 is presented together with a U.S. visa, it is general practice to the USCIS to send a copy of all correspondence relevant to both the plaintiff and counsel for the petitioner. In addition, if the U.S. Embassy sent correspondence to the recipient non-citizen, the U.S. Attorney will generally be provided with a copy of the correspondence.
As mentioned in previous articles, the form submission G28 is a way to make sure that we are dealing with a lawyer because only a lawyer can be paid to the government to appear before immigration. In addition, the current form requires the prosecutor to disclose their G28 license status and number of bar. Do not feel embarrassed to ask for a copy of credentials of a lawyer. All U.S. immigration practitioner who is unable to produce a kind of license (license status bar, the state Supreme Court to license, the Federal Court of license, etc.) should be regarded with caution.
Posted on February 24, 2010.