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Our firm is dedicated to providing individualized legal services to international clients around the world and those in the local Broward County community. Our small-firm design combined with our large-firm legal capabilities allows us to focus on the specific needs of a client and provide them with personalized services, while at the same time enabling us to use our experience and expertise to handle their legal matter in an efficient and innovative manner.

The International Law Office of Gabriel Jose Carrera, P.A. has experience in the area of immigration, Family and International law. We provide both immigrant and non-immigrant visa services to individuals seeking to enter the United States. We handle removal cases or what is commonly known as deportation cases. We manage applications for family based, invitation letters, and various other types of visa applications, including consular visa processing cases. In addition we represent clients in Deportation Court in locations like: Krome, BTC, Glades, Miami Immigration Court, and the Florida Keys. We also offer Immigration appeals with Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals and the USCIS.

In addition to our family based and removal (formerly known as deportation) defense we offer Naturalization applications to obtain citizenship. Our mission is to assist our clients in their efforts to attain residence in the United States.

Our firm emphasizes personal contact with our clients and seeks to establish professional relationships in order to provide personalized services to best meet each client's individual needs.

Whether it is an International matter or a local dispute we treat each client with a sense of urgency to quickly and economically resolve their legal need.

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Cash-strapped homeowners are finding short-sales
are hard to come by

Cash-strapped homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth often try to get out of trouble by selling for less than the mortgage amount and asking lenders to forgive the difference.

It sounds simple. But so-called short sales rarely are.

The deals frequently are exercises in frustration, as lenders take weeks or months to consider offers. Exasperated buyers walk away during the delays, and properties linger on the market, prolonging the housing slump and the recession. Many agents refuse to show short sale homes to clients. Real estate attorneys struggle to penetrate the bank bureaucracy, complaining that files pass from one employee to another. In some instances, lenders approve short sales, only to later reverse the decisions. Meanwhile, banks partly blame borrowers, saying they don't provide necessary information fast enough.

"I'd rather take a herd of elephants through a quicksand bog. It's easier," said Edward Goldfarb, an agent in Broward and Palm Beach counties.


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AILA Welcomes CDC Proposal to Remove HIV from Definition of Communicable Diseases

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) welcomes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proposal to remove "Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection" from the definition of "communicable disease of public health significance" which previously barred individuals from entering the United States. This proposed regulatory repeal follows through on the change in law enacted by a bipartisan Congress and signed by President Bush last July.

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U.S. Government Fast Tracks
Island Cuban's Visas!

In a significant shift in Cuba migration policy, the U.S. government announced Wednesday it was creating a new program that would reduce the long delays many Cubans experience in securing visas to enter the United States. Under the new Cuban Family Reunification Parole Program, Cubans granted permission to travel here by U.S. authorities will no longer have to wait in Cuba to receive permanent residency.

They will now be given a travel document that would ''parole'' them into the United States, so they can wait here for their green card to be delivered to them. Even with the new program, however, there is no guarantee that Cubans with approved parole will enter the country any faster. That's because they still must get an exit permit from the Cuban government.

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NATURALIZATION THROUGH
U.S. MILITARY SERVICE

Members and certain veterans of the U.S. armed forces are eligible to apply for United States citizenship under special provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). In addition, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has streamlined the application and naturalization process for military personnel serving on active-duty or recently discharged. Generally, qualifying service is in one of the following branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, certain reserve components of the National Guard and the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve.

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Undocumented workers
bemoan U.S. crackdown
 

For thousands of South Florida's illegal immigrants, the new year offers more uncertainty, discontent and, for many, resigned departure. From farms in Homestead to day laborer pickup sites in Florida City and Fort Lauderdale, migrant workers are struggling to find work as Homeland Security steps up enforcement after a firestorm of public opinion derailed an immigration overhaul in Congress. That proposal, which failed in the summer, would have eventually legalized millions of undocumented workers.

Adding to the turmoil: a slowing economy. More than two dozen South Florida employers and undocumented workers interviewed by The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald said they worry about tough times ahead. Evidence suggests immigrants are sending less money back to their families in Latin America and the Caribbean. At Global Money Express in Little Havana, money transfers have dropped by a third in the past few weeks.......

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