Ron Abramson began his career with the New Hampshire Public Defender Program before establishing himself as one of the State's preeminent immigration lawyers. In a career spanning 23+ years, Ron has handled a multitude of immigration, criminal defense, civil litigation, and international legal matters. Ron has also served as an international trade consultant, and as a law professor in the U.S. and abroad.
As a naturalized United States citizen, Ron's passion and main professional focus is immigration law. He has successfully obtained all manner of business and family-based visas, has taught at national training programs, and has litigated a number of cases all the way to the U.S. Circuit Courts.
From 2004-2006, Ron returned to his native Chile as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, where he taught courses relating to Chilean criminal justice reforms. While in Chile, Ron also was appointed New Hampshire's Commercial Consul to Chile by then-Governor John Lynch, serving as an international trade consultant. In addition to his immigration practice, Ron advises businesses concerning the implications of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (as well as other multi- and bilateral trade agreements), ITAR, distribution agreements, and contracts. He is one of the area's few native Spanish-speaking lawyers and is conversant in (slow) French.
Ron also participates in a number of Latino/Hispanic community initiatives, has coached youth sports, and currently serves as Secretary of the Board of New Hampshire Public Television. Ron maintains his work-life balance by being an avid distance runner, and has undertaken a number of extreme running challenges on behalf of selected causes over the years. Run has run blindfolded in order to raise awareness and money for the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired's Team With a Vision; he has guided disabled runners through Team with a Vision and Achilles International, serving as a sighted guide at the Boston Marathon, New York City Marathon, the National Blind Half-Marathon Championships, the Bay State Marathon, and the Ragnar Cape Cod Relay; he ran two marathons and two ultramarathons in a month to raise money for chairty.
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2018 was a tumultuous year by virtually any measure. U.S. immigration law and policy continued to be a mishmash of greater restrictionism, heightened enforcement, and devastating family separations at the Southern Border.
In a development which took the much of the immigration law community by surprise, a Federal trial court in Northern California has issued an injunction against the Executive Branch, breathing new life into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. On January 9, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup issued a 49-page decision, ruling as follows:
We have just learned that the current administration has terminated Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for citizens of El Salvador, effective September 9, 2019. While not surprising in light of the rhetoric and action coming from the White House, the Attorney General, and the Department of Homeland Security, this is a disappointing decision for the citizens of a country ravaged by natural and other disasters, many of whom have been in the United States working, paying taxes, and otherwise...
Moments ago, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA. The rescission of DACA has been billed as a necessary way to enforce the "Rule of Law", and has been promoted as an "orderly winding down" of the generally popular program established by President Barack Obama in 2012.
While gift-givers everywhere brave long lines to find and buy presents for their friends, families, co-workers, and others, our thoughts turn to a different sort of line. One that seems to snake endlessly around virtual bureaucratic blocks, and which - for too many people - never move fast enough to make a difference. That would be the "approved visa petition" line, which is a real doozy.
