The authors
Who writes this blog
Three attorneys at Usher Law Group P.C. in Brooklyn. Each post carries the name of the lawyer who wrote it.
Mikhail Usher, Esq.
Founding & Managing Attorney · Admitted in NY, NJ, FL
Mikhail Usher founded Usher Law Group in 2013 and has represented immigrants for more than 15 years. He tries removal cases in immigration court and takes them to the Board of Immigration Appeals and the federal courts of appeals. Before opening the firm he clerked for Judge Amy Steele Donner in Dade County, Florida, and built the criminal division of a Brooklyn firm.
Posts (15)
- The frivolous application warning: why every word in your asylum form must be true
- Particular social group claims in 2026: what the newest Board decisions changed
- Missed your fingerprint appointment? What happens to your asylum case
- Nexus: why the reason you were harmed matters as much as the harm
- Your Notice to Appear: what it must say, and what to check first
- After the Board says no: the petition for review and its 30-day deadline
- Credible fear and reasonable fear interviews: what they are and what has changed
- Past persecution: the presumption it creates and how it can be rebutted
- The $105 Annual Asylum Fee: who owes it, when it is due, and what happens if you do not pay
- Your asylum case was sent to immigration court without an interview. Now what?
- After A-B- and L-E-A- came back: domestic violence and family asylum claims
- From asylee to green card: adjusting status after asylum is granted
- The asylum work permit in 2026: when you can apply, what it costs, and what changed
- The BIA appeal deadline is 30 days, in every case
- Credibility in asylum cases: why small inconsistencies can matter
Alexander Susi, Esq.
Executive Senior Associate · Admitted in NY, NJ, PA
Alexander Susi handles immigration matters from deportation defense through asylum, along with civil and commercial litigation. He is admitted in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in the Second Circuit, and before the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. He studied at New York University and Boston University School of Law.
Posts (14)
- Voluntary departure: leaving without a removal order, and the deadlines that come with it
- You moved. The immigration court needs to know within five days.
- Three Supreme Court immigration cases to watch this term
- The judge denied your asylum case. What happens to your work permit?
- Humanitarian asylum: when the danger at home has passed, but what happened to you has not
- Moved to another state? How to move your immigration court case
- How to count immigration court filing deadlines
- Which New York immigration court is my hearing at?
- Your asylum work permit renewal no longer extends your card. Here is what that means.
- The individual hearing: what happens at your asylum trial in immigration court
- The bars to asylum: what can stop a case before the facts are weighed
- The one-year asylum deadline: what counts, and the two ways around it
- Mullin v. Al Otro Lado: the Supreme Court upholds metering at the border
- Urias-Orellana v. Bondi: the hearing is where asylum cases are won
Mitchell Bromberg, Esq.
Senior Associate · Admitted in NJ, NY
Mitchell Bromberg's practice centers on deportation defense, detained clients, bond proceedings, appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and motions to reopen removal orders. He earned his law degree at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and was admitted in New Jersey in 2023 and New York in 2024.
Posts (9)
- Can you travel while your asylum case is pending? Read this before you book a ticket
- Corroboration: when your word is enough, and when the judge can ask for proof
- Interpreters at your asylum interview and your court hearing: who provides one, and who cannot
- Your spouse and children in your asylum case: what the rules say
- Your first immigration court hearing: what happens at a master calendar hearing
- Asylum, withholding of removal and CAT: how the three forms of protection compare
- The $100 I-589 filing fee: what it covers, where you pay it, and how a missing fee can cost you your filing date
- Missed your immigration court hearing? How an in absentia order can be reopened
- You get one motion to reopen. Make it complete.
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