On December 15, 2009, Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL), introduced a bill in the House of Representatives, entitled Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity (CIR ASAP) Act of 2009. Click here to read the comments Rep. Gutierrez, chair of the CHC Immigration Task Force, made at a press conference introducing the bill.
While the actual text of the legislation is more than 600 pages, here is a brief summary of CIR ASAP. Of course, this is only the preliminary proposed legislation and there are no new laws as of right now. Keep checking back on our blog for further updates as they become available.
Ruchi Thaker is New York City-based immigration attorney with extensive experience and excellent reputation for effective legal representation in simple and difficult immigration cases. I have experience in areas of deportation defense (criminal and non-criminal), federal court litigation, representation on appeals and motions with the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals, family-based immigration, asylum, naturalization, and consular processing.
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