Episode 6 - Interview w/ Immigration Attorney, Guru, Professor, Author and Advocate Stephen Yale-Loehr,

Host John Khosravi's Interview and Discussion with Immigration Guru, Attorney, Professor, Author & Advocate Stephen Yale-Loehr (http://www.millermayer.com/) To learn more about the Immigration Lawyers Podcast, please visit www.ImmigrationsLawyersPodcast.com Show Notes:00:00 Overview01:00 Introduction01:36 Personal Background & Professional Beginnings03:30 What does it mean to be Of Counsel and his role in his firm04:25 Asylum Processing Times (Newark Asylum Office) and Detention times05:53 EB-5 (I-526) Processing Times and the EB-5 Program07:05 Steve's EB-5 cases and trends (for example, third party loans). IIUSA (https://iiusa.org/) 09:06 Amount time for Family v. Business Practice for the firm and Steve. One-off complex cases, witness testimony, pro bono (asylum) Half of practice is EB-5 related now10:00 How Steve does his book writing10:50 Where Steve gets his information (AILA.org, Lexis, Dan Kowalski Daily online publications Bender's immigration bulletinhttp://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsro... / various listservs)11:57 Practice management: in-house case management system Access database w/in house IT team12:31 Kind of complex cases he is working on (J-Visa, Asylum, EB-5)14:15 Issues with Immigration: multiplicity of agencies and opinons and inability to be proactive in anticipating constantly shifting workload16:25 How immigration reform would happen / points system used by other countries19:20 Career: things that shaped who he is / clients that affected him22:00 Affect of stress of the cases: managing client expectations23:30 Dealing with case issues (ombudsmen, email or congressional inquiry)24:35 Parting words: helping new immigrations come, opportunity here for them and lawyers