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Gavel Gavel

Podcast von Thomas Smith

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Gavel Gavel is the podcast that takes you inside the courtroom! Comedian Thomas Smith asks questions and cracks jokes while real legal experts with actual trial experience provide unique analysis.

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Episode GG70: A Consummating Professional Cover

GG70: A Consummating Professional

Part 3! In this very special episode, Thomas and Lydia Smith celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in the most normal and romantic way possible: subjecting themselves to an extended interrogation about their marriage by a federal agent. After setting the scene in a (very slightly) parallel universe in which Thomas was born in Canada and committed a series of Nickelback-related misdemeanors before overstaying his student visa, Matt draws from his twenty years of experience in sitting through hundreds of immigration interviews to play out an unscripted simulation of what his clients and their U.S. citizen spouses go through when they are applying for residency through marriage. We then reconvene to review how the Smiths did, and Matt takes us through some of the legal issues raised in this interview as well as some of the more interesting aspects of the residency process generally. Finally, we discuss some of the weirder aspects of the law surrounding immigration through marriage beyond the facts of this interview, including (among many others): --Do you really have to prove to the satisfaction of an immigration officer that your marriage includes sex? --Why might the US government refuse to recognize a prior divorce from your home country? --Will federal immigration authorities really recognize a Zoom wedding conducted from completely different continents? --Can you bring multiple partners if you are coming from a country where polygamy is legal? 1. "Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status," [https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-485.pdf] U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (1/20/2025 edition) 2. "Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity," [https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45151] Congressional Research Service (5/28/21) 3. Matter of Peterson [https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2012/08/27/1845.pdf], 12 I&N Dec. 663 (BIA 1968) 4. "Kicking the INA Out of Bed: Abolishing the Consummation Requirement for Proxy Marriages [https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1339&context=hwlj]," 22 Hastings J. Gender & L. 55 (2011) 5. "Second Wives Club: Mapping the Impact of Polygamy in U.S. Immigration Law," [https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1122267?ln=en&v=pdf] Claire A. Smearman, Berkeley Journal of Immigration Law (Dec. 2009)

5. Mai 2026 - 52 min
Episode GG69: The Most Dangerous Newlywed Game Cover

GG69: The Most Dangerous Newlywed Game

Part 2! In this very special episode, Thomas and Lydia Smith celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in the most normal and romantic way possible: subjecting themselves to an extended interrogation about their marriage by a federal agent. After setting the scene in a (very slightly) parallel universe in which Thomas was born in Canada and committed a series of Nickelback-related misdemeanors before overstaying his student visa, Matt draws from his twenty years of experience in sitting through hundreds of immigration interviews to play out an unscripted simulation of what his clients and their U.S. citizen spouses go through when they are applying for residency through marriage. We then reconvene to review how the Smiths did, and Matt takes us through some of the legal issues raised in this interview as well as some of the more interesting aspects of the residency process generally. Finally, we discuss some of the weirder aspects of the law surrounding immigration through marriage beyond the facts of this interview, including (among many others): --Do you really have to prove to the satisfaction of an immigration officer that your marriage includes sex? --Why might the US government refuse to recognize a prior divorce from your home country? --Will federal immigration authorities really recognize a Zoom wedding conducted from completely different continents? --Can you bring multiple partners if you are coming from a country where polygamy is legal? 1. "Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status," [https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-485.pdf] U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (1/20/2025 edition) 2. "Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity," [https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45151] Congressional Research Service (5/28/21) 3. Matter of Peterson [https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2012/08/27/1845.pdf], 12 I&N Dec. 663 (BIA 1968) 4. "Kicking the INA Out of Bed: Abolishing the Consummation Requirement for Proxy Marriages [https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1339&context=hwlj]," 22 Hastings J. Gender & L. 55 (2011) 5. "Second Wives Club: Mapping the Impact of Polygamy in U.S. Immigration Law," [https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1122267?ln=en&v=pdf] Claire A. Smearman, Berkeley Journal of Immigration Law (Dec. 2009)

1. Mai 2026 - 59 min
Episode GG68: Extremely Married Cover

GG68: Extremely Married

In this very special episode, Thomas and Lydia Smith celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in the most normal and romantic way possible: subjecting themselves to an extended interrogation about their marriage by a federal agent. After setting the scene in a (very slightly) parallel universe in which Thomas was born in Canada and committed a series of Nickelback-related misdemeanors before overstaying his student visa, Matt draws from his twenty years of experience in sitting through hundreds of immigration interviews to play out an unscripted simulation of what his clients and their U.S. citizen spouses go through when they are applying for residency through marriage. We then reconvene to review how the Smiths did, and Matt takes us through some of the legal issues raised in this interview as well as some of the more interesting aspects of the residency process generally. Finally, we discuss some of the weirder aspects of the law surrounding immigration through marriage beyond the facts of this interview, including (among many others): --Do you really have to prove to the satisfaction of an immigration officer that your marriage includes sex? --Why might the US government refuse to recognize a prior divorce from your home country? --Will federal immigration authorities really recognize a Zoom wedding conducted from completely different continents? --Can you bring multiple partners if you are coming from a country where polygamy is legal? 1. "Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status," [https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-485.pdf] U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (1/20/2025 edition) 2. "Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity," [https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45151] Congressional Research Service (5/28/21) 3. Matter of Peterson [https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2012/08/27/1845.pdf], 12 I&N Dec. 663 (BIA 1968) 4. "Kicking the INA Out of Bed: Abolishing the Consummation Requirement for Proxy Marriages [https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1339&context=hwlj]," 22 Hastings J. Gender & L. 55 (2011) 5. "Second Wives Club: Mapping the Impact of Polygamy in U.S. Immigration Law," [https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1122267?ln=en&v=pdf] Claire A. Smearman, Berkeley Journal of Immigration Law (Dec. 2009)

1. Mai 2026 - 50 min
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