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Handling Domestic Violence Safely and Obtaining Legal Protection

These key steps will enable you to stay safe and secure when dealing with a domestic violence incident. One of the main ideas to keep in mind is to plan ahead before a future incident. Gathering extra clothes and storing them at another person’s house, getting extra cash or a credit card for emergencies and making a copy of your car keys are all ways you can plan ahead before a future occurrence. This is crucial for your safety in case the aggressor creates an extreme situation where you cannot escape. Having this all planned in advance will allow you to get away from your aggressor quickly and safely and get to a safe place to then call the police. Make sure you do not wait or hesitate to call the police. Often domestic violence victims feel that they can handle or manage their abuser. That maybe this situation was out-of-character and will not happen again and that they can “fix it” or help “heal” their abuser. However, if this has become a pattern in your relationship, chances are that this kind of confrontation will occur again.

If the person who is …

Immigration Attorney N.M.Gehi Describes Basics of Obtaining US Citizenship

U.S. citizenship can be obtained in one of four ways:

-birth in the United States or its territories -birth to U.S. citizen parents -naturalization (the grant of citizenship after an application and exam), or -naturalization of one’s parents.

How can one obtain citizenship through his/her parents?

A child born with one or both parents being U.S. citizens can acquire U.S. citizenship. The law on citizenship acquired through parentage has changed over the years. Currently, for those born from November 14, 1986 to the present, the following rules apply:

If at the time of birth, both your parents were U.S. citizens and at least one had a prior residence in the United States, the child automatically acquires U.S. citizenship with no conditions for retaining it. If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of the child’s birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least five years, two of which must have been after the age of 14. No other act need be done to keep this type of citizenship. If one U.S. citizen parent is the father and the child was born outside of …