AnalysisSeveral states have recently passed legislation outlawing persons who are not attorneys from providing immigration services, but few have actually enacted laws permitting nonattorneys to provide such services. New York’s new regulations are similar to California’s, which allow operation of bonded “immigration consultants.” However, it is not clear whether this new law will give New York immigration assistants any more authority than does California law, which only allows such assistants to perform only secretarial and transcription functions.
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