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Attorney Ruby L. Powers is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. The child of a Mexican immigrant, Powers gravitated toward an international life by later marrying a Turkish immigrant. Having lived and studied in Belgium, Mexico, Turkey, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates, Powers speaks Spanish, French, and a hint of Turkish. With a passion for service and justice coupled with cultural understanding and interest in immigrants, dedicates her law practice to immigration law. Outside of the office, she loves spending time and traveling with her family.

Dr. Connell is the Connell Immigration Law Group founder and the senior immigration attorney for the firm. He is a first-generation American whose parents came to the U.S. from Barbados and the Dominican Republic.
He was raised to believe that America represents the crossroads where work, faith, and persistence come together to yield success and make the American dream a reality. His firm prepares family-based petitions, adjustment of status applications, consular processing, removal of conditions on residence petitions, citizenship applications, fiancé(e) visas, and immigration waivers.
They also petition for victims abused by spouses who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Dr. Connell is admitted to practice before The United States Supreme Court, New Jersey Supreme Court, The District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States District Court, Federal District of New Jersey and the United States District Courts, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York as well as The Executive Office for Immigration Review (Immigration Courts).
He graduated from the City University School of Law In New York, has earned a doctoral degree in psychology, and is an ordained minister with over 30 years of ministry experience.
He is a member of AILA, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and is a trustee of the Camden County Bar Association of New Jersey. Dr. Connell is also a co-chairman of the Immigration Law Committee for the Camden County New Jersey Bar Association, a member of the Christian Legal Society, and a college professor teaching at the graduate level. He has conducted numerous classes in various venues and discussed immigration issues on television and radio programs and talk shows.

In this episode, we had the honor of hosting Drew Miller from Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska to discuss what they do (the organization in general), why they do it (provide immigration services), and how they are preparing for the changes in the USCIS, including the removal of TPS, scheduled for 2021.

Your weekly immigration news update, from the Cerenade Snacks team, for the week of August 31.

In this first episode of Cerenade Snacks, Cheikh and Ray hosted Shannon M. Shepherd, attorney at law at Immigration Attorneys, LLP to discuss the USCIS fee increase, the I-944 form, and a few other things.

Today, immigration is one of the hottest-button topics not only in America, but all over the world.
Navigating through some of immigration laws can be a daunting and a complex task.
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