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We take the
tough cases--and win. B & W attorneys have successfully
represented a broad range of clients in the field of
business immigration, family and citizenship,
political asylum, removal defense, criminal
immigration issues and federal immigration litigation.
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Mr. Wichmer
has been quoted on immigration issues in the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, KMOX and KTRS radio, and on
television interviews with KSDK, KMOV, FOX, and KPLR.
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Ashcroft Grants Asylum, Reverses AWO (PDF, 315K)
In a decision
dated February 13, 2004, Attorney General John
Ashcroft reversed a Board of Immigration Appeals
opinion and granted asylum to a B & W client on account
of imputed political opinion. This client helped save
the lives of 14 U.S. Marines in the aftermath of the
terrorist attack on the Marine barracks in Lebanon in
1983.
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Eighth Circuit Finds IJ Curtailed Petitioner's
Testimony and Grants Asylum
Mr. Wichmer
represented an applicant for political asylum before
the U.S. Court of Appeals after an Immigration Judge
denied his asylum claim. The Court ruled that the
Judge violated the immigrant’s constitutional right to
due process of law and ordered a new hearing. This
case is published as Al-Khouri v. Ashcroft, 362 F3d
461 (8th Cir. 2004).
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Mr. Wichmer is
currently fighting an appeal on behalf of a business
start-up company challenging current USCIS
interpretation of wage and profitability issues.
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Mr. Wichmer
successfully blocked a removal order from the Board of
Immigration Appeals when the United States Court of
Appeals held that his client was able to establish a
bona fide marriage to her U.S. Citizen husband.
This case set a new precedent on the type of
documentation needed to establish marriage in good
faith.
Patel v. Ashcroft, 2004 WL1555183
C.A. 8 (2004)
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Mr. Wichmer
represented an immigrant who was unlawfully detained
by the INS because he was ordered removed due to
country conditions which arose after his political
asylum hearing. This lawsuit was successful, the
immigrant was released, and this case was reported in
the national immigration law reporter, Interpreter
Releases, May 2001.
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Mr. Wichmer
was able to help prevent the
deportation of an immigrant who served in the United
States Army by providing advice and expert testimony
in a motion in the Missouri Circuit Court to set aside
a plea made by the immigrant without knowledge of its
immigration consequences.
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In 2004, Mr.
Wichmer successfully argued that an immigrant who
petitioned the Courts to review her removal case
should be able to stay here previously-granted period
of voluntary departure. To date, the 8th Circuit
is on of only two Circuit Courts of Appeal to find in
favor of immigrants on this issue.
Rife vs.
Ashcroft, 2004 WL 1496971 C.A. 8 (2004)
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Mr. Wichmer
also successfully defended an immigrant who was
lawfully present in the United States for forty years,
but who faced removal due to a criminal offense. After
pursuing the client's rights in Immigration Court, the
U.S. Court of Appeals and the Missouri Court of
Appeals, Mr. Wichmer was able to have the immigrant's
guilty pleas set aside and to have the removal
proceedings terminated.
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In 1999-2000,
Mr. Wichmer teamed with two family law attorneys in
the Elian Gonzalez case in Miami, appearing in the
Federal Court on his family’s behalf and successfully
helping to reunite the boy and his father.
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B & W attorneys
have represented clients successfully in removal
hearings on hundreds of occasions, obtaining
cancellation of removal, adjustment of status, waivers
of removal, political asylum, withholding, voluntary
departure and other forms of relief.
