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Finding an immigration lawyer that cares about education is hard to find.  Read below and see for yourself exactly what I  mean.

Tras descubrir dos casos de salvadoreños amparados por el Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS), a quienes el Departamento del Trabajo de California (EDD) les suspendió el pago de beneficios de desempleo porque su tarjeta aparecía vencida, abogados y representantes consulares temen que el problema pueda ser más amplio de lo que parece.

Estas tarjetas fueron renovadas automáticamente por seis meses por decisión del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS), mientras los solicitantes de extensión al TPS reciben sus nuevos permisos de trabajo. Pero el EDD insiste en que esa extensión "no es automática" y que las personas deben demostrar que reinscribieron y fueron aprobados por el DHS.

Parece una diferencia semántica, pero que podría estar costando sus beneficios de desempleo o quizá hasta sus trabajos a muchos salvadoreños y tal vez a otros amparados por el TPS .

La información del DHS parece aún no haber llegado a los encargados del EDD, quienes aparentemente tampoco han leído un memo de la Oficina de Derechos Civiles del Departamento de Justicia, que establece claramente que "cuando hay una extensión amplia de los permisos de trabajo, no se pueden pedir documentos adicionales".

En resumen, EDD estaría actuando en contra de la ley federal.

Todo comenzó cuando el abogado Nelson Castillo estaba en el consulado de El Salvador haciendo trabajo pro bono (voluntario), asesorando a personas de ese país sobre temas de inmigración, cuando Miguel Ángel Méndez se le acercó para consultarle un asunto.

"Me dijo que necesitaba velozmente su nuevo permiso de trabajo del TPS porque el estado le había cortado su beneficio de desempleo", comentó Castillo. "Yo le dije que según lo indicaron las autoridades, ese permiso fue extendido automáticamente por seis meses".

Se puede leer todo el artículo en la Opiñion y el artículo se llama "Temen Riesgos para quienes vence el TPS."  La fecha es 6 Noviembre de 2010.

The GED Hotline has told the immigrant, both documented and undocumented, that people who have never earned a high school diploma should do the GED in their first year in this country.  Why?  People should advance toward better jobs quickly and into higher education.  Among the best examples is a man I met in the Bronx from Perú who took the GED after being in this country for only three days.  Teddy Acevedo of Brentwood, New York is featured in one of my articles for signing up for English language courses after being in the United States for a few days and earning his GED in Spanish after six months.  I have told the undocumented immigrant it does not matter if you came here with a visa or crossed the border with a "coyote" (the person escorting people across the border for hire), everyone should do the GED in his or her first year in this country and do it in the stronger language.  One of the distinguised Salvadorans in my campaign is Nelson Castillo.  Nelson was working in a gasoline station in New York when a woman spoke to him gently and appropriately.  She told him that even though he had stopped going to high school, he could take the GED test and progress by having the diploma.  Nelson studied some and took the test and passed it.  Nelson Castillo was elected the President of the National Hispanic Bar Association a few years back.  He is now practicing law in Los Angeles.  He is one of the great "poster boys" of the education, but I want my friends in the Salvadoran and Hispanic community (all over the United States) to know that Nelson has been one of the great friends and founding members of my GED campaign.  Nelson Castillo has repeatedly distinguised himself in New York and El Salvador.  When reporters interviewed him in El Salvador at the first Presidential Forum of President Elias Antonio Saca, he brought the reporter(s) over to me, always looking out for the education of his people.  He was at my first GED Roundtable in the offices of ASPIRA of New York.  Any lawyer or individual who wanted to study law was given help by Nelson Castillo, both in his private practice and as President of the National Hispanic Bar Associaton.

All immigrants needing help may contact Nelson Castillo in his office in Los Angeles. 

 Immigration AttorneyNelson A. Castillo
Immigration Attorney | Abogado de Inmigración
Member of the New York Bar | Miembro del Colegio de Abogados de Nueva York
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1605 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 1045, Los Angeles, CA 90015
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As you read about immigration think how much better life could have been if millions of immigrants had earned a diploma and learned English.  Here is a free website where all immigrants can get started.

 www.usalearns.org

You can avoid fraud but I know how hard it is to find an immigration lawyer that is committed to the community.  I urge peple in California to contact Nelson Castillo.  He can recommend people to you that he knows in states where you or your family members live.

See his contact information on this page.