ROSANNA'S PRESS
As a leading immigration expert, Rosanna continuously tracks, monitors, and reports on changes and trends in the field. She is frequently contacted by media outlets from all over the world including Forbes, The Huffington Post Mexico, The Los Angeles Times, and The National Post (Toronto), to name a few. Contact Rosanna today for a radio, phone, or in-person interview.
WKBW
Why a D.W.I. conviction could now keep you out of Canada
It could now be a lot harder, longer and more expensive to get into Canada if you’ve been convicted of a D.U.I. or D.W.I. It used to be that anyone living outside Canada who has been convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol is banned from traveling to the country for 10 years.
WBEN
New Canadian Law Blocks Convicted Drunk Drivers from Entering Canada
Starting today, a new law takes effect in Canada that can impact your ability to cross the border. That is, if you’re convicted of drunk driving. The Canadian government now considers drunk driving a serious enough conviction to deny entry into Canada.
Buffalo Business First
New wrinkle in Canadian law makes impaired driving a high crime
A change in Canadian law that begins Tuesday will impact how individuals from the U.S. can cross the border if they’ve been found guilty of driving while impaired.
AM800
Snoop wants to be a Canadian citizen by January 2019
Rosanna Berardi, managing partner at Berardi Immigration Law joins Mike and Lisa to talk about the possibility of Snoop Dogg becoming Canadian
WIVB
Entry into Canada to be tougher for drivers with DWI-related convictions
Starting Tuesday, December 18, new laws in Canada will drastically affect non-Canadians trying to travel into the country who have been convicted of DWI-related charges.
Spectrum News
New Law Makes it Harder to Cross into Canada for Americans with DWIs
Canada is cracking down on impaired drivers with a new law that takes effect Tuesday and could prevent some American drivers from crossing the border.
Bustle
What The SCOTUS Travel Ban Decision Means For Immigrants & Refugees
In a blow to immigrant rights advocates, on Tuesday morning the Supreme Court upheld the third iteration of President Trump’s executive order to stop members of seven countries — five of which are Muslim majority — from entering the country.
WBEN
Rosanna Berardi, Berardi Law Firm
Berardi discusses the current state of immigration in the United States.
Bustle
How Trump’s Family Separation Executive Order Leaves Wiggle Room For It To Continue
President Trump has insisted for weeks that only Congress could act to stop the practice of removing immigrant children from their families at the U.S. border. But he issued an executive order to address the subject Thursday that doesn’t actually require that his administration ends the practice.
WBEN
Rosanna Berardi, Berardi Law Firm
Berardi discusses President Trump’s change of course on family separation.
Buffalo Business First
Sessions ruling could impact number of asylum seekers coming to the U.S.
A ruling by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week will severely limit the ability of asylum-seekers fleeing their country of origin from gang violence or domestic abuse to seek asylum status in the United States. Sessions overruled an immigration court’s decision that granted asylum to a Salvadorian woman who said she had been sexually, emotionally and physically abused by her husband.
WKBW Buffalo
Immigration lawyers explain southern border situation
How did the United States get to the point of separating children from their parents at the southern border? 7 Eyewitness News got some clarification from Western New York immigration experts. Rosanna Berardi has been practicing immigration law for decades. She says, the laws haven’t changed, but the implementation of the laws have.
Buffalo Business First
Column: Canada’s marijuana policy could be tricky at border
This summer, our friends north of the border plan to legalize recreational marijuana use. It will be lawful to purchase and smoke marijuana in Canada. This will raise a host of issues when crossing the U.S./Canadian border because the United States treats an “admission” of using marijuana the same as a “conviction” for purposes of admissibility.
Buffalo Business First
Buffalo-area immigration lawyers see range of issues stemming from Washington
Changes made to immigration practices by the Trump administration have created plenty of new issues for clients, Western New York immigration lawyers said.
PLI Current The Journal of PLI Press
Privacy Rights Versus National Security at the Border
This constitutional requirement operates to protect the privacy interests of the American people, but it is greatly relaxed at the border. That is not to say, however, that the border is a Constitution-free zone.
Invest Buffalo Niagara
Rosanna Berardi, on the Can-Am border
Rosanna Berardi is managing partner at Berardi Immigration Law and a cross-border expert. On this episode of Bell Ringer she shares some of that expertise, with some help from special guest Carolyn Powell of Invest Buffalo Niagara.
Buffalo Business First
Law firms join forces on immigration
In an effort to strengthen the immigration and cross-border team at Barclay Damon, the law firm named Buffalo attorneys Rosanna Berardi and Jennifer Behm special immigration counsel. They are managing partner and partner, respectively, of Berardi Immigration Law and will continue at that firm …
RT
Reinstated census citizenship question sparks debate, lawsuit
Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs, Inc
Small Shift in Handling Some Canadian Visas Could Make Big Waves
A Homeland Security Department pilot program is shifting the decision-making process on certain temporary visas for Canadians away from the border. But what is starting out as a relatively small test run could have much broader implications for this and other visa programs if the pilot is expanded …
Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs, Inc
Travel Abroad Could Spell Trouble for Green Card Seekers
There may be a new snag for immigrants in the employment-based green card backlog: an inability to travel outside the U.S. for three or more months at a time. “We’re basically forcing people to be grounded,” Laura Danielson of Fredrikson & Byron in Minneapolis told Bloomberg BNA …
Spectrum News
Reinstated census citizenship question sparks debate, lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t take up the Trump administration’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily keeps the DACA program intact before the case makes its way through the lower courts.
Under an injunction through two lower courts, the Department of Homeland Security must continue to accept renewal applications for the…
Buffalo Business First
Supreme Court won’t hear DACA case, for now
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t take up the Trump administration’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily keeps the DACA program intact before the case makes its way through the lower courts.
Under an injunction through two lower courts, the Department of Homeland Security must continue to accept renewal applicantions for the…
Buffalo Law Journal
Trump and NAFTA: The end to a robust trade agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement was a hot topic of the 2016 presidential election. NAFTA received an unprecedented amount of attention by both candidates. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to “rip up” NAFTA, although his team has since clarified that he is “looking to rightsize it and make it fairer.”
Buffalo Business First
Refugee resettlement agency on Trump’s ban: ‘Our clients are very concerned’
Catholic Charities of Buffalo planned to welcome 19 refugees to Buffalo this week, but instead those refugees are temporarily banned from entering the United States for the next four months. An executive order signed Jan. 27 by President Trump suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days and halts…
Forbes
A Lawyer Aids Immigrants’ American Dreams Through Her Firm
When a mother and stepfather were kept an ocean apart from their teenage son for almost a year by U.S. immigration officials, Rosanna Berardi of Berardi Immigration Law came to the rescue. Marleen Pfeiffer, a Dane, had married a U.S. citizen in June of 2014, and become a permanent resident about a year later, Her son, Mads, joined her in…
Huffington Post Mexico
Nearly 13,000 Mexicans facing the threat of losing their jobs if the US withdraws from NAFTA
Mexicans living and working in the United States are not all illegal or criminal, as President Donald Trump has said, on the other hand, there are almost 13,000 professionals trained, with good jobs and who pay the same taxes as a US citizen : they are Workers with a TN visa product of the North American Free Trade…
LA Times
Trump travel ban is ‘scary’ for Hollywood, which relies on a global talent pool
Los Angeles producer Rossi Cannon relies heavily on foreign directors and cinematographers to make commercials for brands such as Nike. Cannon, 48, never thought that her access to the global talent pool might be limited. Now she’s not so sure.
The election of President Trump, she says, has…
The Lawyers Weekly
There are no digital secrets at the border
Each day, hundreds of foreign nationals travel to the United States for business meetings. Most business travelers carry a laptop and smartphone that contains confidential business information. This information may include e-mails from lawyers, proprietary data and trade secrets.
Imagine this: upon presenting your passport to Customs and Border Protection, you are…
National Post
Northern aliens: Around 100,000 Canadians live under the radar in U.S. as illegal immigrants
It was the late 1990s when the Canadian man crossed the border into the United States, a visitor like millions of others, free to stay up to six months.
Except that he never actually left the U.S., and never obtained U.S. government permission to stick around. He simply made a new life for himself in America. For the last 18 years, the Canadian…
Buffalo Law Journal
Your iPhone at the U.S. border
Imagine this: You’re returning to the United States after a business trip abroad. While going through customs, you are unexpectedly pulled to the side and brought into secondary inspection. The officer asks for your cell phone and the password to access its content. As you travel for work very often, you keep all of your sensitive client and corporate information on this cell phone. You freeze…
Bloomberg Law
Visa Provisions of New Trade Deal Largely Mirror NAFTA
Visas for professionals from Canada and Mexico will continue under the trade agreement the Trump administration reached with the two countries to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The Miami Herald
Kuwaiti neurosurgeon invited to University of Miami denied entry into U.S.
A distinguished Kuwaiti neurosurgeon with ties to the South Florida medical community says he and his wife were singled out by a U.S. federal agent at an airport in Dubai last week and told, without explanation, that they could not enter the United States for vacation.
Buffalo Business First
Column: Friend or foe? Canada’s role in the ‘new’ NAFTA
Outside looking in on Trump’s new deal that nixed NAFTA, Canada is in a tough position.