About
Shahid Haque dedicates his exercise to assisting immigrants reap prison fame inside the United States and pursue all that the u . s . has to provide. Mr. Haque assists clients with a wide type of immigration subjects, together with applications with the consulates abroad and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, representing customers arrested by the Department of Homeland Security, and defending immigrants in deportation complaints in Immigration Court.
Mr. Haque represents well over a thousand immigrants and their households all across Montana, and has been in touch with over a thousand other immigrants in Montana thru his advocacy efforts. He has internalized their memories, understands their emotions and anxieties, and is one of the few humans in Montana who has a broad and clean image of the numerous immigrant communities at some point of Montana, from Glacier to Yellowstone — and in all the small communities all alongside the way.
Mr. Haque facilitates customers with a extensive type of own family and employment based visas. He has won asylum for over twenty refugees who fled from their home nations to break out torture, persecution, and death due to their political or religious ideals. He has also won cancellation of elimination for severa customers in contested deportation complaints — one of the maximum tough varieties of remedy to win because of its excessive burden of evidence.
In 2013, he filed a category movement lawsuit against the Montana Highway Patrol to task its exercise of detaining Latino drivers and passengers solely for the cause of checking into their immigration reputation. In 2015, he prevailed with a judgment in his choose. Under a brand new coverage, soldiers can not ask about immigration fame based completely on someone’s race, ethnicity or language competencies. Nor can they demand drivers or passengers tell them their immigration status or detain people who pick out no longer to reply. Montana is now one of the handiest states with a clean coverage prohibiting this conduct.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Citizenship and Naturalization
- Criminal Immigration Violations
- Worksite Compliance with Immigration Laws
Costs
Certificates
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Languages
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Managing Partner
Border Crossing Law Office, P.C.
2008 - Director
Montana Immigrant Justice Alliance ("MIJA")
2008 - Associate Lawyer
Browning, Kaleczyc, Berry & Hoven, P.C.
2007 - Associate Lawyer
Howrey LLP
2007 - Associate Lawyer
Jenner & Block, LLP
2005
Educations
Graduation year: 2002
