Individual Legal Services

The Law firm of Garces & Grabler, P.C. is an established law firm with an Immigration Practice Group that prides itself with meeting the special needs of each client in the complex and ever changing field of immigration and naturalization law.

Our central immigration office is conveniently located at 20 Green Street, 2nd Floor, Newark, New Jersey, within a block of the Federal Buildings: Federal Courthouses, Rodino Federal Building (containing the Immigration Court and the U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Services).

We are also conveniently located near Penn Station and other forms of public transportation.

Other essential immigration services located near the firm are:

• USCIS support center
• Offices of Immigration Removal and Investigation
• Immigration at Newark Airport
• Elizabeth Detention Facility/Court

We have other offices conveniently located throughout New Jersey in Elizabeth, Freehold, New Brunswick, Trenton, Perth Amboy and Plainfield.

The Immigration Department of Garces & Grabler, P.C. understands the complexity of immigration laws and regulations and their attorneys and staff have in excess of twenty years experience servicing the needs of individuals from all countries, ethnic groups, cultures and religions.

Permanent Residency
Temporary Visas
Naturalization — Becoming a US Citizen
Removal — Deportation/Exclusion
Administrative Review
Employer Sanctions

Our multilingual attorneys and staff are there to assist you in Immigration Court Proceedings, Appeals, Family Petitions, Business related applications, Asylum, Naturalization, Citizenship, and a multitude of various immigrant and non-immigrant visas.

We have experience in representing both complex and simple immigration matters for clients from all over the world.

We have a high approval rate in successfully representing individuals in removal and deportation/exclusion proceedings before the Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals, and other Federal Courts.

In today’s climate, any matter concerning immigration requires representation by competent legal counsel. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) may disqualify a person from benefits for even a simple indiscretion, minor infraction of criminal/civil law, using a false social security number or name or utilizing fraud to obtain a government benefit.

Our multilingual staff will assist and guide you through the complicated procedures to gain the “American Dream.” Our staff will first evaluate each client’s particular situation. Once evaluated, your case is assigned to an attorney best suited for your individual circumstances.

Whether you already have family here or wish to assist family, friends or workers in coming to the United States; or avoid removal from the United States; or need assistance in becoming a United States citizen, our competent and highly experienced attorneys and staff will assist you in your search for the “American Dream.”

What our offices can do for you or your business in all fifty (50) states, U.S. possessions and U.S. consulates:

• Obtaining a permanent visa (“Green Card”) for yourself or your family
• Filing for PERM to obtain permanent visa thru an offer of employment
• Filing for Diversity lottery and processing of case if selected
• Filing for Registry
• Filing for Naturalization/U.S. Citizenship
• Filing for temporary visas
• Obtaining Treaty Investor and Treaty Trader visas (E visas)
• Obtaining a professional work visa (H-1(b))
• Obtaining Nurses visa (H-1(c))
• Obtaining foreign correspondence status (I visa)
• Obtaining a fiancé visa (K visa)
• Opening a branch office for a foreign company (L visa)
• Obtaining visas for performers, entertainers and athletes (O & P visas)
• Obtaining religious visas (R and Special Immigrant)
• Obtaining a family visa under the LIFE act (V visa)
• Obtaining Temporary Protected Status
• Extension of tourist visas
• Changes or extensions of other non-immigrant visas
• Fighting an Exclusion, Deportation, or Removal case
• Waivers of inadmissibility, waivers of removal
• Filing for Cancellation of Removal for Lawful Permanent Residents and Illegal Aliens
• Filing claims for political asylum, withholding of removal, and withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT)
• Helping your company comply with the Immigration Laws (Employer Sanctions-How to avoid them)
• I-9 Compliance and Employer Sanctions
• All other Immigration Matters

Permanent Residency

• Obtaining a Permanent Visa (“Green Card”) for yourself or your family
• Filing for PERM to obtain a permanent visa through an offer of employment

Non-Immigrant Visas/Temporary stay in the U.S.

• Filing for Temporary Visas
• Filing for Naturalization/U.S. Citizenship
• Extension of Tourist Visas
• Changes or extensions of other Non-immigrant Visas
• Fighting an Exclusion, Deportation or Removal
• Appeals
• Helping your company comply with the Immigration Laws (Employer Sanctions - How to avoid them)
• I-9 Compliance and Employer Sanctions
• Obtaining Treaty Investor and Treaty Trader Visas (E visas)
• Obtaining a Professional Work Visa (H-1(b))
• Obtaining Nurses Visa (H-1(c))
• Opening a branch office for a foreign company (L visa)
• Obtaining foreign correspondence status (I visa)
• Obtaining visas for performers, entertainers and athletes (O & P visas)
• Obtaining a Fiancé Visa (K visa)
• Obtaining Religious Visas (R and Special Immigrant)
• Filing claims for Political Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT)
• Filing for Cancellation of Removal for Lawful Permanent Residents and Illegal Aliens
• Obtaining Temporary Protected Status
• Filing for Registry
• Waivers of inadmissibility, waivers of removal
• Filing for Diversity Lottery and processing of case if selected
• All other Immigration Matters

Visas

A Visa is a permit to apply to enter the United States. It classifies your visit or stay in the United States. For a temporary visit you need to obtain a non-immigrant visa. For permanent residency you need to obtain an immigrant visa.

Legal Status for Haitians in the United States

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians is now available due to the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Napolitano has stated “this is a disaster of historic proportions and this designation will allow eligible Haitian nationals in the United States to continue living and working in our country for the next 18-months. Providing a temporary refuge for Haitian nationals who are currently in the United States and whose personal safety would be endangered by returning to Haiti is part of this Administration’s continuing efforts to support Haiti’s recovery.”

To qualify you must:

1. Be a Haitian National, or a person without nationality, who last habitually resided in Haiti;
2. Have continuously resided in the United States since January 12, 2010;
3. Have continuously been physically present in the Unites States since the date of the Federal Register Notice publication of January 21, 2010;
4. Properly complete and file the TPS registration;
5. Meet other immigration requirements; and
6. File before registration ends! If you fail to file by the deadline of July 20, 2010, you will be disqualified!

Note: There will be potential scams by non-attorneys looking to take advantage of Haitian nationals, so it is important to utilize experienced TPS immigration attorneys in order to ensure that your filing is performed in a timely and proper manner.

Benefits of TPS Filing:

1. You will receive valid immigration status;
2. You will obtain permission to work in the United States;
3. You may be able to stop deportation;
4. You may be able to still adjust your status or apply for any other immigration benefit or protection for which you may be eligible.

We at Garces & Grabler, P.C. have employees and friends that have been affected by the earthquake in Haiti. Our hearts go out to the people of Haiti. If you, a friend or a loved one may benefit from the TPS, please contact us at 1-800-923-3456, or any of our seven local offices, to file for TPS and work authorization.

Our most recent Immigration successes

Permanent Residence Obtained for Undocumented Immigrant

New Jersey immigration attorney David M. Wasserman, Esq. of the Law Office of Garces & Grabler, P.C., represented a Mexican man, G.M., who had been living and working in the United States since 1990. Mr. Wasserman successfully proved before the U.S. Immigration Court that G.M. should not be removed from the United States, because of the extraordinary hardship to his U.S. citizen children.

G.M. was pulled over by police for a broken taillight, and the police arrested him for presenting a driver’s license from Washington State. New Jersey’s policy regarding undocumented immigrants led the police to notify the Department of Homeland Security. DHS then placed G.M. in removal proceedings.

Mr. Wasserman applied for cancellation of removal for G.M., a defense available because of his 20-year period of residence in the United States and his U.S. citizen children. Thanks to Mr. Wasserman’s efforts, G.M. will not be removed from the United States and is now on the path to U.S. citizenship.

Mr. Wasserman and the other immigration attorneys at Garces & Grabler, P.C. represent non-citizens from all walks of life before immigration courts and agencies in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

To contact an immigration attorney, call us toll free at 1–800–923–3456 or contact us online to discuss your legal matter today.

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