Episode 195

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Published on:

16th Jul 2024

Virtual Assistants Beware

It’s a terrible law.

Imagine you’re a virtual assistant – who works from home – from a country outside the United States.

You visit a cousin in the United States.  You enter on a tourist visa.

While, you’re here, you turn on your laptop, and you do some work for a client who lives in England, Canada, or Singapore.

Once you turned on your computer to help one of your clients, you’re deemed to be in violation of your visa.

And this could lead to a finding of being inadmissible, several years later, even as the spouse of a U.S. citizen.

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Episode 102: Immigrants Do Not Come To America To Steal Jobs

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Recommended Links For More Information:

Four Insights About The Economic Contributions Of Immigrants In The United States

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The Immigration Mastermind is a podcast for immigrants and their families that shares tips, insights, and tidbits to help guide the quest for permanent residence and citizenship in the United States. The podcast strives to build knowledge, while dispelling myths in short bite-sized, easy-to-understand snippets of pull-no-punches information.

Designed for both immigrant families who have already started the immigration process and those just starting to think about their journey, the Immigration Mastermind provides a mix of expert tips about legal rules, insights about breaking news, and tidbits to help immigrants and their families to keep their chin up, even when the road to success seems to be a never-ending road.

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Carlos Batara

Carlos Batara is an immigration lawyer, author, educator, public speaker, and online talk show host. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he has cared for, protected, and guided immigrants from over 100 countries on their journeys to the United States. His goal is to help at least one family from every nation in the world before he calls it quits.

With family roots from Mexico, Spain, and the Philippines, as well as Native American, Greek, and Turkish ancestry, he brings a broad multicultural background to the practice of immigration law.

Combined with knowledge gained from advanced studies in international relations and constitutional politics, Carlos is always willing to speak his mind openly on immigration issues.