Steven Pham's Legal Blog

Today, a Federal District Judge, the Honorable Sam Lindsay, ordered a permanent injunction prohibiting Farmers Branch, a Dallas Texas suburb, from enforcing Ordinance 2903 which was passed by a 2 to 1 vote to prohibit apartment complexes from renting to undocumented aliens.  A group of property management companies, residents, and advocacy groups filed suit in […]

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The USCIS today announced that Form I-751 Petition To Remove Conditions on Residence, which is placed on some permanent residence’s green card (Form I-551), will soon be amended.  In addition, the filing procedures are also being changed.  Previously, the Petition To Remove Conditions on Residence, is filed in the Nebraska and Texas Service Centers.  The […]

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When one fisherman asks another fisherman, who often fish the brackish and salt-water off of the Texas coast, whether the “Red” (short for red-drum) he was describing, “has a dot in the back?” it is pretty insulting, and yet funny at the same time.  Well my friends, I did just that about 2 weeks ago.  You […]

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One of the primary responsibilities of a Real Estate Transaction Attorney is to draft and to prepare necessary legal documents for the purchase and sale of the real property.  These documents include but are not limited to preparing the Residential Contract Agreement, the Commercial Contract-Improved Property Agreement, Deed of Trust, the Warranty Deed, and other […]

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We often go through life without taking the time to to think about our love ones, family, friends, and coworkers.  Within the past couple years, it has trully been a roller-coaster ride for my wife and I.  Throughout this time, the person who helped me celebrate the good times, to share my thoughts and feelings, […]

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We often have clients come to us with commercial lease agreements to review.  Unfortunately, most of these clients already signed these leases prior to contacting us.  Some of these contracts were pre-existing spaces while others were under constructions.  Regardless whether the contracts are based on pre-existing spaces or under constructions, the law remains the same and require that an […]

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Every once in awhile, the USCIS would do something on its own accord that make you wonder about all the bad publicity that you hear. On May 6, 2008, one of those rare events happened.  The USCIS announced on May 6, 2008 that it has changed its guideline as to how it would interpret the […]

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 The U.S. Supreme Court is considering two cases in which the 11th and 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals have denied two appeals from two Chinese men who sought asylum based on China’s one-child law and the practices of forced abortions.  Under the current Asylum law, which is part of the Illegal Immigrant and Immigrant Responsibility […]

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You may be asking yourself, “What in the world does Steven writing a blog at 2:39am?”  If you ask my friends, they would tell you that it’s because Steven is psycho, a term of endearment in which my college friends amiably call me from time to time.  However, I am writing this blog at this […]

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