1 Lone Star

I have not been able to say much these last three days, because I am having to deal with more pressing matters on our home front, as far as our business is concerned.  I can say no more, of course, but I wanted to get something written down.

Big story for me as an attorney:  I just want the U.S. Senate to get all this stuff about judges brought to a vote.  Either George Bush gets to appoint who he wants to the federal judiciary, like every other president has done, or we are going to let a small group of ya-yas, led by Ted Kennedy decide that judges are kings and that democracy is only going to work the way the political Left wants it.  Oh, well, it never ends. 

Well, there are new changes now going on in the field of U.S. Immigration Law.  Among them is the news that Senators John McCain (Republican-Arizona), John Cornyn (Republican-Texas), and Edward Kennedy (Democrat-Massachusetts), are about to formally introduce the proposed new guest worker immigration law to the U.S. Congress for consideration next week, beginning in the U.S. Senate, of course.  There will be huge changes within the country as a result of this law, which we now hear has the votes to pass the U.S. Senate, which is the harder place to get the proposed law passed into law.  The truth is, in spite of the fact that more noise is made on the subject by the racist element in the U.S. House of Representatives, the sufficient number of votes is available to pass successfully there, and we now know that there are at least a majority in the Senate now. 

The full story on the proposed law is on the Visalaw immigration newsletter, which also includes news on the major changes being made in what is called H-2B temporary visas.  A law was passed through the U.S. Senate last week, which will make it easier for health care workers to obtain at least a temporary (non-immigrant) work visa to continue working here while their permanent legal resident (LPR--EB-3 immigrant visa) is waiting a decision from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.  This is really important in light of the fact that nurses are in critically short supply here in the U.S., and foreign nurses, and to a lesser extent, doctors, are badly needed.  A new law, called PERM, was supposed to make review of the work eligibility of applicants for permanent work visas, and for most categories, it has.  But for medical workers, it has had the opposite effect, pushing waiting lists from 3 months to over 3 years, devastating the interests of the immigrants and the health care organizations alike.  There are two different articles that deal with both the PERM law and its effect on health care workers, especially nurses.  To read them go here, in the Visalaw.com newsletter printed for this week, and especially here, to the article written by my friend, attorney Carl Shusterman. 

There is more that is not so pleasant.  In the haste to secure our borders, the Congress is likely to agree to the REAL ID Act, which, while it contains some common sense items to protect Americans from the use by potential terrorists and criminals of IDs like drivers licenses to gain access to airports and other potential targets, has some really bad, bad elements to it.  At the top, is the ability by U.S. immigration enforcement agents to deport legitimate applicants for political asylum back to their countries, when their cases are on appeal after an initial denial by a lower immigration review.  And that can be done without any judicial interference in that deportation, before a ruling on their appeal happens!  In some cases, that is tantamount to a death sentence for the individual or family!  That definitely has to go down among the dumbest things the U.S. Congress has done lately.  You can go here to read that article, Carl Shusterman writes very eloquently about it.  If you go here you can get the real story about the difficulties in the REAL ID Act. 

Well, that's enough for now.  I'll be working on some necessary administrative reports that I have to do that won't wait.  So I'll be around in a couple of days, talking about intellectual property, and maybe some other things that are a little more personal.  Adios for now, and God bless.

I am really amazed at what I missed.  I never got much wise encouragement to develop myself in advanced mathematics and hard sciences.  I was totally into history, government, politics, speech, religion.  All of that was fine, but with never above a "B" in science, and nothing above a "C" in geometry and triginometry was indicative of how little help or encouragement I got.

Well, I am starting to learn more about nanotechnology.   I had heard about what nanotech was, that it was something that promised to be a leap forward in the world of technology, but other than the fact that it seemed to have a lot to do with the biological, biochemical, and medical businesses, it didn't say much.

Then I saw an article a month ago in the San Diego Union Tribune.  It described, on the eve of the biggest international convention on nanotech, some of the features in its promise and problems arising from this future industry.  I was quick to notice that this is something that a smart person should be a part of.  So, gradually, I will be.  You'll be reading me talking about it at least once every two days.  And I hope that I'll be a sympathetic ear for would-be inventors and small researchers.  I'll explain when I blog again.

In the meantime, for anyone who wants to know, here is a good website for you, Nanotechnology.  It's good for the newcomer and person who wants to get and stay highly knowledgeable in this industry. 

Well, that's all for now.  I'll be talking more about more things later.  Adios and God bless.

I am happy to be able to work on something as varied as the Internet.  It gives me so many opportunities to learn more things about the law than I would have imagined when I first entered the profession in law school more than 20 years ago.   I want to share some things that I have learned just recently concerning the field of U.S. immigration law that I am still developing skill in.  In particular, section 245i of the Immigration and Nationality Act allows a large number of people the ability to apply for and obtain legal status in the USA who may have come here illegally, that is without coming through a regular port of entry via the legal immigration process.  The law was passed originally in 1994, and has helped many people come into the light of legal status whose only crime was to have come to the USA to jobs noone else would do.

Here it is, the law allows people who may have come illegally, but who had a parent or close family member, or an employer, sponsor them on a legal application for permanent residency or another visa, to come and file an "adjustment of status" petition to the government to gain permission to live in the USA based upon another visa petition.  A fine of $1,000 has to be paid, but the opportunity to become a legal resident is available.  The time cutoff is that the person filing the original application for the now-illegal must have done so by April 30, 2001, and the individual now seeking the legal resident status adjustment must have been in the States by December 21, 2000.

Seems confusing?  Yeah, and that's why so many illegal immigrants keep hiding, because the confusion in the law, which was supposed to help people along.  And they are afraid to show their faces to CIS for fear of deportation anyway.  But a proper understanding of the law may reveal that living illegal may not be one's only option.  Other immigration lawyers I've read have said the same thing.  For more on the story, click here for this article.  The Immigration Service just put out a statement last month to clarify common questions about section 245i, you can read it here.  And if you want to know more of how you, or a loved one trying to come here in the USA, can get help with their problems, just  e-mail me at the following e-mail address:  FJ.Fernandez@gmail.com .

Well, I'll be back on intellectual property tomorrow.  I'll see you guys, bye for now, God bless..

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), has been established by treaty to create a vehicle under the World Trade Organization (WTO) to give an easier way for inventors and creators of intellectual property to protect their works from piracy.  The opportunities for such people are tremendous:  to have their works recognized as protected in 190 nations that have signed the WIPO treaty, and its parent organization's WTO treaty, which the USA ratified in 1994, without the necessity of applying in other countries outside their own, or relying upon the bilateral treaties that its own country have negotiated with other countries.

I will be in the process of researching ways to approach inventors and artists to gain their participation in the process of preserving the integrity of the works that they labored so hard to create.  It is said that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," but it is the deadliest form of theft.  An entire nation's ability to compete and progress in the marketplace and science can be destroyed by piracy and ineffective protection of the creative worker's actions.  We'll be talking more about it in the future.  Adios for now.

This day I have been busy trying to endure the continuation of our financial struggle.  The running to the bank and back, not even being able to use my van--it is just more than a man can handle in trying to work.  I won't quit though.  There are a couple of places that people can look for new and important information on things they should know if: 1) they want to immigrate to the USA, and; 2) they want to submit an invention of the digital or computer-based kind for the grant of a patent by the U.S. Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): 
1)--www.shusterman.com (Immigration law office)
2)--www.zura.com (Patent lawyer from Chicago with great knowledge of much of intellectual property law in general).

I talked with Peter Zura today.  A more congenial man you will not find who is also a lawyer who is a leader in his field.  That is, with the possible exception of Carl Shusterman, who is one of the best immigration lawyers in America, and therefore the world, and is recognized by Los Angeles Reader as the best immigration lawyer in Los Angeles (which is awesome to say in that polyglot city representing every nation under heaven).  I hope to be able to find ways to work with both of them.  I just need to make myself sufficiently marketable to become appealing to them.

I am just now finding the information on the proof about Jesus' historicity.  I'll be adding that to the group in Multiply.com Does God Exist?  What is unreal is that there are so many scholars among the less than 1 percent that think that the man never existed.  They truly will go to incredible lengths to support their lies.

Well, later I'll supply some links to support what I said there on this webblog.  In the meantime, I've got to go.  Hasta la tarde.

I am once again, late.  I have a blazing headache, and I am floundering in the sea of things not yet done.  Tax reports, contacting potential business associates, dealing with a problem with a family member, trying to meet a continuing financial state of emergency, trying to start a law practice once again, trying to make two-day old promises happen of getting documentation to people who I am trying to persuade simply to consider the claims of Jesus.  Some of those self-appointed experts in ancient history has the nerve to assert that the man NEVER EVEN EXISTED!  As if an entire history of the largest faith in the history of the world, an entire set of principles, built upon eyewitness testimony and substantiated by the recognition of historians, that has irrevocably changed and transformed all civilization, is based upon a fictitious character!  Unbelievable!  I can handle discussing whether his claims to divinity are valid, that's honest inquiry.  But "prove to me that the greatest man who ever lived actually lived?"  That's when I begin to scream....and I mean shriek like a banshee!  You don't want to know the thoughts I have.  The people on that group on Multiply are simply either deliberately ignorant, or maliciously dishonest....I go for the latter of the two.

Well, I am going to return fire.  They don't know what they have run into.  They think I've quit.  Oh how wrong they are!

In the meantime, the more I read about the new Pope Benedict XVI, the more I like...a lot.  If it wasn't for a handful of doctrines that I could never accept, I would consider Catholicism.  Alas, the handful of doctrines are such that I would go positively nuts.  I definitely prefer my freedom as a Christian.  However, his moral stands and his determination to passionately defend the basic gospel which all true Christians everywhere do agree on, evoke my deep respect.  And like John Paul the Great, his love of music and culture, as well as his knowledge of so many languages, inspire me to drive forward with new fervor.

I am an advocate of Jesus Christ.  Yes, that title is something that I will embrace.  Little stirs my passion, if anything at all, more than those words.  I find myself unable to relate to the tired, dusty words "evangelist", "apostle", "pastor", what are they anyway?  They are religious words, that evoke something either bigoted or a throwback to a bygone era.  But to persuade people to believe, in a way that empowers and dignifies them, it is embodied in the word "advocate."  And so I am.  The name attached to a lawyer is transformed into the essence of what a Christian is to the world.  Urbi et Orbi---the City and the World.

I am an advocate of Jesus Christ.  I will do my best, in the time I have left, not to fail him. 

Well, hello.  I am once again completely zoned out.  I need sleep.  I need time to work.  I have spent most of my day getting involved in chasing around town trying to take care of bill and bank problems.  Did so.  I'll be back in a little while.  Hasta luego, baby.

Oh, and way to go Franz Josef Ratsinger.  You the man.  You are Benedict.  You are the best man, and I think you will surprise everybody. 

Hi.  This has become my blog....at least for now.  I have a pathetic time adding on links---anywhere.  I have tried lining up links on my blog on Blogger, and it is a big time hassle.  So, I'm going to see how this works.

I have done precious little to get the business started today, but plenty to fight off the green-eyed evil creditor monster.   I really want to see changes in my life right away.  If that's being selfish, so be it.  Well, I have to go already.  Gotta help Gail treat the pets with their medicine.  Adios.

Well, hello.  I have tried some of the other blog hosts.  I'm not happy at all.  So, I'm going to try this one here.  Let's she how it goes.  Adios.

Well, for just starters, here is the first link.  Try reading this, if you want information about U.S. immigration law. (click here).