Originally From
Immigration Practice - Fifteenth Edition
Appendix D
FREQUENTLY USED GOVERNMENT FORMS
AND SUGGESTIONS FOR COMPLETING THEM
[The following is a pared down listing of the departments forms for which a host of useful internet web site URLs are provided. Beginning with §D-2 below, are the specific forms for which line-by-line guidance for completion is provided.]
§ D 1. Internet Locations (URLs) of Government Forms and Fees
§ D-1(a). Department of Homeland Security (USCIS, ICE, CBP) Forms and Fees
§ D-1(b). State Department Forms and Fees
§ D-1(c). Department of Labor Employment Training Administration Forms
§ D-1(d). Department of Justice (Attorney General/EOIR/ATF) Forms
§ D-1(e). Social Security Administration Forms
§ D-1(f). Department of Treasury/IRS/OFAC Forms
§ D-1(g). Other Agencies’ Forms
§ D 2. Form G 28: Notice of Entry of Appearance as Attorney or Representative
§ D 3. Form I 129: Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker
§ D 4. Form DS–156: Nonimmigrant Visa Application
§ D 5. Form I 539: Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status
§ D 6. Form I 130: Petition for Alien Relative
§ D 7. Form I-360: Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er), or Special Immigrant
§ D 8. Form I 140: Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker
§ D 9. Form DS-230 Part I: Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration
§ D 10. Form DS-230 Part II: Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration
§ D 11. Form I 134: Affidavit of Support
§ D 12. Form I 485: Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status
§ D 13. Form AR-11: Alien’s Change of Address
§ D 14. Form N 400: Application for Naturalization
§ D-15. Form ETA 9089: Application for Permanent Employment Certification
Robert C. Divine is a Partner and leader of the Immigration Group of Baker Donelson, a law firm of over 550 lawyers and public policy advisors with offices in 13 cities from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans.
Mr. Divine has over 25 years of immigration law experience and served in Washington, D.C. from July 2004 until November 2006 as the first presidentially appointed Chief Counsel of United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), the world's largest immigration services agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). From July 2005 until July 2006, he served as Acting Director and then Acting Deputy Director of USCIS. In early 2004 he served as an expert for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom evaluating the impact on asylum claims from DHS' implementation of expedited removal procedures.
He has practiced immigration law since 1986 and in the last several years has chaired the American Immigration Lawyers Association's "Inter-Agency" Committee and its Liaison Committee to the U.S. Department of State. He has served as an expert witness in U.S. and foreign courts.
His practice includes all aspects of U.S. immigration law, representing large and small international and domestic employers, investors, developers, regional centers, family sponsors, and individual foreign nationals. He has also litigated significant business matters, including class action employment discrimination, contract, commercial, product liability, antitrust, ERISA benefits, business torts (including RICO, misrepresentation, Consumer Protection Act), and immigration-related criminal matters.