Other Legal Services

At the Baton Rouge law office of Goldie C. Domingue, APLC, we represent clients in family and business immigration matters, as well as immigration matters for healthcare professionals, and student and exchange visitors. We also handle temporary protected status matters, visa waivers, and citizenship and naturalization matters.

Students and exchange visitors

Our firm offers legal advice and services to students and exchange visitors – including the following visa statuses:

• F (student),
  
• M (students attending vocational schools and other nonacademic institutions),
  
• J (exchange visitors),
  
• Q (cultural exchange visitors)

We can advise students about extension of post-degree employment authorization.

We handle J-1 visa waivers – based upon "no objection letter", exceptional hardship to U.S. or lawful permanent spouse or child; probability of persecution upon return to home country; Interested Government Agency (IGA) waivers; and Conrad 30 and IGA waivers Foreign Medical Graduates.

We can also handle your change of status to work visa status, as well as labor certification and other petition processes for permanent residency (green card).

Temporary Protected Status

From time to time the U.S. government determines that citizens of a certain country cannot safely return to their country due to conditions in that country. Citizens of that country who are in the United States, and their spouse and children, if eligible, can apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). We can help you determine whether you are eligible for TPS, and assist you with the application process.

Visa waivers

There are a number of categories within the U.S. immigration statute that define reasons why an individual may not be admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa, or may not be eligible to permanently immigrate to the United States. However, the U.S. immigration statute also provides a waiver for some of these categories of inadmissibility, including

• J-1 visa waivers,
  
• waivers of the 3 or 10 bars to admissibility,
  
• waivers of certain health-related grounds of inadmissibility
  
• waivers of certain criminal-related grounds of inadmissibility
  
• waivers of inadmissibility due to false statements and misrepresentations

We can assist you in requesting a waiver of these grounds of inadmissibility if they apply to you or your family member or your employee.

Citizenship and Naturalization

Our services include:

• Application for Naturalization;
  
• Determination of whether U.S. citizenship status has been derived through parent born in the United States;
  
• Application for Consular Report of Birth Abroad and passport application for child of U.S. citizen born abroad.
  

Contact us for legal representation by an experienced and successful immigration attorney.