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Attorney Ruby L. Powers is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. The child of a Mexican immigrant, Powers gravitated toward an international life by later marrying a Turkish immigrant. Having lived and studied in Belgium, Mexico, Turkey, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates, Powers speaks Spanish, French, and a hint of Turkish. With a passion for service and justice coupled with cultural understanding and interest in immigrants, dedicates her law practice to immigration law. Outside of the office, she loves spending time and traveling with her family.

Dr. Connell is the Connell Immigration Law Group founder and the senior immigration attorney for the firm. He is a first-generation American whose parents came to the U.S. from Barbados and the Dominican Republic.

He was raised to believe that America represents the crossroads where work, faith, and persistence come together to yield success and make the American dream a reality. His firm prepares family-based petitions, adjustment of status applications, consular processing, removal of conditions on residence petitions, citizenship applications, fiancé(e) visas, and immigration waivers.

They also petition for victims abused by spouses who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Dr. Connell is admitted to practice before The United States Supreme Court, New Jersey Supreme Court, The District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States District Court, Federal District of New Jersey and the United States District Courts, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York as well as The Executive Office for Immigration Review (Immigration Courts).

He graduated from the City University School of Law In New York, has earned a doctoral degree in psychology, and is an ordained minister with over 30 years of ministry experience.

He is a member of AILA, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and is a trustee of the Camden County Bar Association of New Jersey. Dr. Connell is also a co-chairman of the Immigration Law Committee for the Camden County New Jersey Bar Association, a member of the Christian Legal Society, and a college professor teaching at the graduate level. He has conducted numerous classes in various venues and discussed immigration issues on television and radio programs and talk shows.

In this episode, we had the honor of hosting Drew Miller from Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska to discuss what they do (the organization in general), why they do it (provide immigration services), and how they are preparing for the changes in the USCIS, including the removal of TPS, scheduled for 2021.

Your weekly immigration news update, from the Cerenade Snacks team, for the week of August 31.

In this first episode of Cerenade Snacks, Cheikh and Ray hosted Shannon M. Shepherd, attorney at law at Immigration Attorneys, LLP to discuss the USCIS fee increase, the I-944 form, and a few other things.

In this episode, Cheikh and Ray discuss the new USCIS immigration fees increases, the news on form I-994, and Netflix's 'Immigration Nation.'

Today, immigration is one of the hottest-button topics not only in America, but all over the world.

Navigating through some of immigration laws can be a daunting and a complex task.

In a breakthrough new podcast series called Cerenade Snacks, me—Ray— and my co-host—Cheikh—will help you navigate these complexities more effectively.

Each podcast episode will feature perspectives and personal stories from legal experts, immigration clients, doctors, and other stakeholders, and we will discuss everything from breaking immigration news to complicated legal issues.

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Having a career as a lawyer, especially with a law firm where one must meet deadlines and deal with several clients’ needs, usually mean long working hours, beaming stress, and missed family vacations. It can be so much that you feel like calling it quit from all the frustrations and multitasking.

These can tamper with your intellectual welfare as a lawyer and even your level of relationship with people outside your workplace. Your relationships with people begin to dwindle and may eventually relapse to an irreversible level, whether with your friends, family or spouse without you even noticing. You start to cut people off; though not intentionally, it is as a result of the looming deadlines you must meet as a lawyer, coupled with the ton of workload you must get off yourself.

Research has shown that when one goes through stress for an extended period without the space to unwind or time to cool off, one’s intellectual welfare can be affected. This situation is especially true when such person does not create time to talk to others about work, or the level of stress one has been passing through at that time. Therefore, taking time to hang out and talk to loved ones can help to ease out stress, in addition to helping one function well at work.

As a lawyer, it is crucial for you to be conscious of your intellectual welfare if you don’t want to burn out. You need to ensure that you are in the right frame of mind before you take on any job or attend to a client to ensure efficiency and productivity in proffering solutions to the client’s needs.

Often, many lawyers shy away from admitting their sufferance from psychological burnouts, for they like to believe are in absolute control of everything happening around them. When they commit to acting on something new or different, when they are unsure of the outcome or wonder if they are up to the challenge, they experience stress and move into actions which usually require courage and psychological activities.

Psychologically, you start to feel like things are going out of control. It makes it all too easy to feel helpless under the weight of anxiety and depression. The most important thing to know and understand is that in many cases, you are not, and you are not alone, and indeed your intellectual welfare is something you can influence and change for the better by ensuring you engage yourself in activities that require your physical effort on improving your overall health and fitness as often as possible.

Exercise is also a prime factor to consider as a lawyer; regular exercise is one of the best decisions you can make in lifting off accumulated stress and boosting your intellectual welfare to be able to multitask efficiently. Apart from improving your mood and the outlook of your relationship, exercise can also help in giving fresh ideas to cater to the needs of your clients. It is an essential aspect of your intellectual welfare that cannot be overemphasized or overlooked because it serves as a necessary routine, which will help boost your mental health and produce a new level of productivity needed to battle with client’s daily demands.

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