CILG In the News: Bad Credit and Immigration

A recent article for Yahoo Finance entitled, Can a Bad Debt Get You Deported? discusses the implications of bad credit or unpaid bills to the immigration process.    Founder and principal attorney Dimo Michailov was consulted for article and quoted throughout the article.

“Normally, the United States does not look at credit” when considering visa applications, says Washington D.C.-based immigration attorney Dimo Michailov.

If a bad debt winds up in the court system, it is usually a civil proceeding that does not have to be disclosed. If criminal activity were involved, it would be a different matter, he says. As a general rule, though, being unable to pay your debts is not a criminal matter.

Full article at Yahoo Finance.

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About the Author: Dimo Michailov

Dimo Michailov
Dimo has over 15 years of experience in US immigration including employment-based immigration benefits, corporate compliance and family based immigration. He represents corporate and individual clients in a wide range of cross-border immigration matters including mobility of key foreign executives and managers, specialized knowledge workers, and foreign nationals with extraordinary ability.

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