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David Isaacson

About David Isaacson

David A. Isaacson is a Partner at Cyrus D. Mehta & Associates, PLLC where he works on immigration and nationality law matters. David's practice includes a variety of family-based and employment-based applications for both permanent residence and nonimmigrant visas, as well as waivers, naturalization and citizenship matters, asylum cases, other removal proceedings such as those stemming from criminal convictions or denied applications for adjustment of status, and federal appellate litigation.

David received his J.D. in 2004 from Yale Law School. Following law school, David clerked for the Honorable Leonard B. Sand of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. David is a graduate of Princeton University, where he earned an A.B. in Economics, summa cum laude, and also received certificates in Finance, German Language and Culture, and Political Economy. He is the author of Correcting Anomalies in the United States Law of Citizenship by Descent, 47 Ariz. L. Rev. 313 (2005), reprinted in 26 Immigr. & Nat'lity L. Rev. 515 (2006), and Waiving Goodbye to Unappealable Decisions: Indirect AAO Jurisdiction, or Why Having Your Appeal Dismissed Can Sometimes Be a Good Thing, 20 Bender’s Immigr. Bull. 831 (Aug. 1, 2015).

David is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, in the Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits, and in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. He is a co-chair of the Federal Practice Committee and the CBP Committee of the New York Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and has spoken on panels at the AILA Annual Conferences in 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2010, as well as other AILA events, regarding family-based immigration, citizenship issues, ethics, criminal immigration issues, removal proceedings and federal court review. He is included in Chambers USA, New York Super Lawyers (Rising Stars), and the 20th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. (These listings are not approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.) He was counsel for the petitioner in Pareja v. Att’y Gen., 615 F. 3d 180 (3d Cir. 2010).

Entries by David Isaacson

Travel Ban: FAQs – Updated 07/19/2017

July 19, 2017/0 Comments/in News & Articles/by David Isaacson

These updated FAQs reflect the situation with regard to President Trump’s executive orders entitled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” banning entry to the United States by certain individuals traveling from Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, as of 3 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on July 19, 2017. […]

Travel Ban: FAQs – Updated 07/14/2017

July 15, 2017/0 Comments/in News & Articles/by David Isaacson

These updated FAQs reflect the situation with regard to President Trump’s executive orders entitled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” banning entry to the United States by certain individuals traveling from Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, as of 5 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on July 14, 2017. […]

Travel Ban FAQs – Updated 06/27/2017

June 28, 2017/0 Comments/in 2017, News & Articles/by David Isaacson

These updated FAQs reflect the situation with regard to President Trump’s executive orders entitled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” banning entry to the United States by certain individuals traveling from Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, as of 8 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on June 27, 2017. […]

Entry Ban: FAQs – Updated 2/14/2017

February 15, 2017/2 Comments/in 2017, News & Articles/by David Isaacson

These updated FAQs reflect the situation with regard to President Trump’s executive order, “Protecting the Nation From Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nations,” banning entry to the United States by individuals traveling from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, as of 6 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on February 14, 2017. New developments continue […]

Entry Ban: FAQs – Updated 02/10/2017

February 11, 2017/0 Comments/in 2017, News & Articles/by David Isaacson

These updated FAQs reflect the situation with regard to President Trump’s executive order, “Protecting the Nation From Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nations,” banning entry to the United States by individuals traveling from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, as of 5 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on February 10, 2017. New developments continue […]

Can Some Returning Nonimmigrants Challenge an Expedited Removal Order in Court? How Recent Case Law May Provide a Window of Opportunity

February 24, 2011/1 Comment/in 2011, Blog, News & Articles/by David Isaacson

Under section 235(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”),[1] U.S. immigration officers may order certain non-citizens[2] who are arriving in the United States to be removed on an expedited basis, without any appeal or meaningful judicial review.  This “expedited removal” process can lead to unfair results, but the conventional wisdom has been that it […]

FILING AND ADJUDICATION OF MOTIONS TO REOPEN AND RECONSIDER AFTER DEPARTURE FROM THE UNITED STATES

September 13, 2010/0 Comments/in 2010, News & Articles/by David Isaacson

As interpreted by the Board of Immigration Appeals (ТBIAУ), regulations in effect for more than 50 years have long been thought to prevent an alien who has departed the United States under an order of removal from filing a motion to reopen or reconsider a decision of the BIA or an Immigration Judge (ТIJУ), or […]

A Preliminary Look At Some Of The Constitutional And Practical Problems With Arizona’s New Immigration Law

April 27, 2010/1 Comment/in 2010, News & Articles/by David Isaacson

On April 23, 2010, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed into law SB 1070, a multipronged effort by the Arizona legislature to, in the words of the statute, “discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the United States.”1 Among other things, SB 1070 creates […]

NEW USCIS POLICIES REGARDING HAITIAN ORPHANS: A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT DO THEY GO FAR ENOUGH?

February 8, 2010/0 Comments/in 2010, News & Articles/by David Isaacson

Following the devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti, the Department of Homeland Security has announced a number of measures to aid both Haitian nationals already in the United States, and certain Haitians who were in the process of coming to the United States as relatives of U.S. citizens. This article does not attempt […]

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