Our office will close for the holidays on December 16, 2011 and will reopen on January 2, 2012. Clients and prospective clients may contact us by leaving a message at our (714)441-3400 number, or by e-mailing us at chowhamilton@gmail.com. We will likely only respond to emergencies of existing clients during our vacation, but will promptly respond to all contacts upon our return in January.
We wish you all well for the season and especially thank our clients who have sent us warm holiday and thank-you cards, or have told friends and associates about us this year.
Happy holidays and a prosperous new year to all.
By: Duane M. Hamilton
Thursday, December 15, 2011
CHOW & HAMILTON YEAR-END REPORT
Today was to be my last immigration trial of 2011, but the case was continued to next year, due to illness of the prosecutor. We are happy however to announce the following:
* We succeeded in winning immigration relief which would place our clients on a pathway to US Citizenship (such as asylum), in every completed immigration trial in 2011;
* We received Asylum Office grants in several Kenyan asylum cases (though we take our more complex asylum matters - those filed more than one year after the alien's arrival in the US, and where the alien is failing to maintain status - directly to Immigration Court these days, bypassing the Asylum Office);
* All of our adjustment of status interviews in 2011 based upon marriage were approved with an award of lawful permanent residence to our clients;
* We won terminations of Removal Proceedings in several cases in which our clients were wrongfully being prosecuted for deportation, and secured re-adjustment of status in one complex criminal related matter in which deportation was sought against our Lawful Permanent Resident client based upon the Government's allegation that our client had been convicted of certain Crimes Involvoing Moral Turpitude (CIMTs);
* We were able to reopen two incredibly difficult cases in which deportation orders and Federal Warrants of Deportation had long been issued and all appellate time frames for our clients to appeal had apparently expired under the representation of prior counsel;
* Mr. Chow has succeeded in receiving critical discovery in our Hemet CALDOJ shooting case, Abel v. State of California, and we are moving into 2012 well positioned for mediation, arbitration or trial of this important case.
* Mr. Chow and I have also made significant progress in other civil litigation matters, which are moving towards mediation, arbitration and/or trial, including, but not limited to several Family Law and Wrongful Termination matters.
To those we have served this year, we thank you for your business, and are heartened by the success we have had for you in those cases we were able to complete this year.
By: Duane M. Hamilton
* We succeeded in winning immigration relief which would place our clients on a pathway to US Citizenship (such as asylum), in every completed immigration trial in 2011;
* We received Asylum Office grants in several Kenyan asylum cases (though we take our more complex asylum matters - those filed more than one year after the alien's arrival in the US, and where the alien is failing to maintain status - directly to Immigration Court these days, bypassing the Asylum Office);
* All of our adjustment of status interviews in 2011 based upon marriage were approved with an award of lawful permanent residence to our clients;
* We won terminations of Removal Proceedings in several cases in which our clients were wrongfully being prosecuted for deportation, and secured re-adjustment of status in one complex criminal related matter in which deportation was sought against our Lawful Permanent Resident client based upon the Government's allegation that our client had been convicted of certain Crimes Involvoing Moral Turpitude (CIMTs);
* We were able to reopen two incredibly difficult cases in which deportation orders and Federal Warrants of Deportation had long been issued and all appellate time frames for our clients to appeal had apparently expired under the representation of prior counsel;
* Mr. Chow has succeeded in receiving critical discovery in our Hemet CALDOJ shooting case, Abel v. State of California, and we are moving into 2012 well positioned for mediation, arbitration or trial of this important case.
* Mr. Chow and I have also made significant progress in other civil litigation matters, which are moving towards mediation, arbitration and/or trial, including, but not limited to several Family Law and Wrongful Termination matters.
To those we have served this year, we thank you for your business, and are heartened by the success we have had for you in those cases we were able to complete this year.
By: Duane M. Hamilton
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