From Green to Gold to Platinum Cards: Immigration Attorney Jason Levy’s Insights

The Essential Tax Podcast with Mishkin Santa, Season 2, Episode 12

In this episode of The Essential Tax Podcast, Mishkin Santa speaks with Jason Levy, JD, Counsel at Grossman, Young & Hammond. Jason has been practicing law in the United States for over 28 years. Previously, Jason served as Senior Attorney with the Office of the General Counsel, Immigration Law Division at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). While at DHS, Jason advised policy, operational, and legal leadership on a wide array of immigration-related rulemakings and policies instituted by DHS and its component agencies (USCIS, CBP, and ICE), with a primary focus on employment-based immigration policies.

Tune in for these key takeaways:

• A brief history of the development of immigration law in the US

• Ways to obtain permanent residency with the US

• When the US government might change or update the current US Immigration statutes, and when they won’t

• In-depth discussion of different types of US Visas, how to obtain each one, and speculation of how the criteria may change in the future

• Discussion about the status of the US government’s Gold Card and Platinum Card initiatives and how they might affect US immigration law and tax residency

• Common misconceptions and certain facts about how a person might inadvertently surrender their US Green Card and options for those individuals to maintain or preemptively protect their LPR status

Learn more about Jason Levy:

• Visit the Resources page on Grossman Young & Hammond’s website: https://www.grossmanyoung.com/resources/

• View Jason Levy’s profile on Grossman Young & Hammond’s website: https://www.grossmanyoung.com/attorneys/jason-levy/

• Connect with Jason Levy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-levy-5776a41/

• Follow Grossman, Young & Hammond on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grossmanyoung/

• Visit Grossman, Young & Hammond’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@grossmanyounghammondllc73

• Follow Grossman, Young & Hammond on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grossmanyoung/

Further Resources:

• US DOJ Executive Office of Immigration Review - https://www.justice.gov/eoir

• US DOJ Matter of Lok (1981) - https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2012/08/14/2878.pdf

• Matter of Wong (1977) - https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2012/08/17/2549.pdf

• Gold Card Website - https://trumpcard.gov/

• Matter of Kane (1975) - https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2012/08/17/2371.pdf

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In each episode of The Essential Tax Podcast, Mishkin Santa takes on the complex world of tax — all the jargon, acronyms, and stuff that makes your eyes glaze over, and explains it in an impactful way to understand the complex and unknown areas.

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