//podcastplus.net/feed/podcast~a72a3e4d2f5439f433aa8fa52cc8b58b3361bc0f55df1410c80fa19a21244d02 Unite Immigrant Families is a podcast hosted by Rosemary Vega, an immigration attorney with over 20 years of experience, along with her fellow immigration attorneys, they will be discussing immigration information, updates, and debunk myths. **Disclaimer: No legal advice will be given on this podcast. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:59:20 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b879127d-f292-44b5-b531-63b9f4f47f96/original-converted.mp3 Hi, and welcome back to Unite Immigrant Families. I'm Rosemary Vega, and I'm an immigration attorney in Houston, Texas. And today I have Magali Candler. She is also an immigration attorney in Houston, Texas. Hi, Magali. How are you today? Hi, Rosemary. I'm doing great. Thank you for inviting me. It's a pleasure. It's always fun to have you on. So today I'm super, super excited because we have a new executive order that I think is going to help lots of people in the immigration realm. Um, yesterday President Biden signed an executive order, um, It's a new action to keep families together. Um, this new executive order, he wants to help mixed status families have some peace of mind. He wants to help them stay together in the United States, meaning, you know, so many of the families, they had to, because they entered the United States. Iwi, meaning entry without inspection, without a visa. So many of them had to consular process, meaning they had to leave the United States and they couldn't end consular ... Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b879127d-f292-44b5-b531-63b9f4f47f96/original-converted.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4998beb8-94a9-48ad-a2b2-41bb6932fd79/podcast-SB4.mp3 Hi, and welcome back to United Immigrant Families. My name is Rosemary Vega, and I'm an immigration attorney in Houston, Texas. Thank you for listening to the podcast. And today I want to talk about Texas, a fairly new Texas law called SB4. So Texas passed this legislation in November of 2023, and it was supposed to go into effect on March 5th of this year, 2024. However, this legislation has been, um, in the courts. because the ACLU and other lawyers, other organizations have been, um, filing lawsuits claiming that it is unconstitutional. And let's talk about the law and why Many believe that it is unconstitutional. Okay. So what is SB4? SB4 is a law that states that if a law, a police officer, law enforcement officer has probable cause, if they're, they have a reason to stop you, anyone, right? Then they can ask your immigration status. Texas is claiming that the federal government isn't doing their, their job as far as immigration is concerned. So they're going to do it at least in the state of Texas... Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:30:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4998beb8-94a9-48ad-a2b2-41bb6932fd79/podcast-SB4.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6dd06706-0b63-4b8f-902a-97b848edbfd0/mix-xM9FxwkjozpKevne5mTh-03-22-2024-093142.mp3 Good morning and welcome back to Unite Immigrant Families. Rosemary Vega. I'm an immigration attorney here in Houston, Texas. know it's been some time my last podcast, but I'm back. Um, I felt like it was time that I recorded a podcast, especially right now because new fees that are going to be implemented April 1st. with the USCIS. Um, and some of these new fees are good. Some of them are bad. So, well, not bad, but they're an increase. And some of them are actually going down. So I don't see it as, as a bad thing, you know, but it is a fee change, right? today I have Mariana and she's my legal assistant. Hi Mariana. How are you today? Hi, Rosemary. Good morning. I'm, I'm great. Thanks for asking. And thank you for having me. It is a pleasure for me to be here today. Great. So we are going to discuss the fee changes with, uh, USCIS. And I wanted, I wanted you specifically on today's podcast because You do a lot of the forms and you have a lot of interaction with the clients. I wanted you to talk abo... Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6dd06706-0b63-4b8f-902a-97b848edbfd0/mix-xM9FxwkjozpKevne5mTh-03-22-2024-093142.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/cebbdf6b-385e-4953-b385-2dfedd99776f/new-20law.mp3 Immigration attorneys, Rosemary Vega and Magali Suarez Candler, discuss a new policy memo regarding the three and ten year bars and how it will affect people. Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/cebbdf6b-385e-4953-b385-2dfedd99776f/new-20law.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/cebbdf6b-385e-4953-b385-2dfedd99776f/new-20law.mp3 Immigration attorneys, Rosemary Vega and Magali Suarez Candler, discuss a new policy memo regarding the three and ten year bars and how it will affect people. Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/cebbdf6b-385e-4953-b385-2dfedd99776f/new-20law.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/663120e6-ac75-48ce-92f3-de5747a364a1/Naturalization.mp3 In this episode, immigration attorney, Rosemary Vega, discusses the naturalization process. She also discusses that citizenship is used interchangeably with naturalization, but how the 2 are actually different. She discusses and provides some examples of good moral character issues, especially when dealing with crimes and naturalization. She also discusses how the pandemic caused some people to not qualify for naturalization because they were out of the country for too long and how that affects them. Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/663120e6-ac75-48ce-92f3-de5747a364a1/Naturalization.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/663120e6-ac75-48ce-92f3-de5747a364a1/Naturalization.mp3 In this episode, immigration attorney, Rosemary Vega, discusses the naturalization process. She also discusses that citizenship is used interchangeably with naturalization, but how the 2 are actually different. She discusses and provides some examples of good moral character issues, especially when dealing with crimes and naturalization. She also discusses how the pandemic caused some people to not qualify for naturalization because they were out of the country for too long and how that affects them. Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/663120e6-ac75-48ce-92f3-de5747a364a1/Naturalization.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/339dde29-f9ba-48d6-b72e-3d7a4129d0a1/I751.mp3 Rosemary Vega and Magali Candler, 2 esteemed immigration attorneys discuss the conditional green card or conditional residency. Why is it conditional, and what one needs to do to remove those conditions to get a permanent residency. They also discuss issues that may come up in removing the conditions, such as divorce and timing. Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/339dde29-f9ba-48d6-b72e-3d7a4129d0a1/I751.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/339dde29-f9ba-48d6-b72e-3d7a4129d0a1/I751.mp3 Rosemary Vega and Magali Candler, 2 esteemed immigration attorneys discuss the conditional green card or conditional residency. Why is it conditional, and what one needs to do to remove those conditions to get a permanent residency. They also discuss issues that may come up in removing the conditions, such as divorce and timing. Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/339dde29-f9ba-48d6-b72e-3d7a4129d0a1/I751.mp3 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/96d3fd81-c44c-401d-af06-339738b7534e/evidence-20-1.mp3 In this episode, Rosemary Vega and Magali Suarez Candler, both immigration attorneys, discuss request for evidence and notice of intent to deny, sometimes referred to as RFE and NOID. We discuss the importance of responding in a timely fashion and why USCIS may request more evidence or issue a notice of intent to deny. Wed, 25 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/96d3fd81-c44c-401d-af06-339738b7534e/evidence-20-1.mp3