Categories: General – Posted on September 5, 2011September 5, 2011 Good News for Cohabitating Partners and Other Household Members Based on a recent internal memo, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has taken a friendlier posture in regards to applications … Continue reading >Good News for Cohabitating Partners and Other Household Members
Categories: General – Posted on August 19, 2011August 19, 2011 Homeland Security To Review Deportation Dockets to Exercise Prosecutorial Discretion on Low-Priority Cases On August 18th, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will work together with the Department of Justice to … Continue reading >Homeland Security To Review Deportation Dockets to Exercise Prosecutorial Discretion on Low-Priority Cases
Categories: General – Posted on August 11, 2011August 11, 2011 DHS Secretary Napolitano Announces Job Creation Initiatives via Immigration DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas announced this past week that they are going to look at … Continue reading >DHS Secretary Napolitano Announces Job Creation Initiatives via Immigration
Categories: General – Posted on August 2, 2011August 2, 2011 New Trusted Traveler Program Now Available At Vancouver Airport U.S. Customs and Border Protection continues to expand the reach of its trusted traveler programs, today announcing that Global Entry … Continue reading >New Trusted Traveler Program Now Available At Vancouver Airport
Categories: General – Posted on July 14, 2011July 15, 2011 9th Circuit Overrules Lujan-Armendariz and its Federal First Offender Act Exception Acknowledging that it was out of line with eight other circuit courts, the Ninth has chosen to explicitly overrule its … Continue reading >9th Circuit Overrules Lujan-Armendariz and its Federal First Offender Act Exception
Categories: General – Posted on July 8, 2011July 8, 2011 U.S. Immigration Enforcement Focusing More on Employers U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka ICE) announced last month that the husband and wife owners of a dairy farm … Continue reading >U.S. Immigration Enforcement Focusing More on Employers
Categories: General – Posted on June 23, 2011June 23, 2011 Padilla, Sandoval, and Post-Conviction Relief Many courts are now considering post-conviction relief for noncitizens with convictions where advice on pleas may have been ineffective. To … Continue reading >Padilla, Sandoval, and Post-Conviction Relief
Categories: General – Posted on June 17, 2011June 17, 2011 “Specialized Knowledge”: A Moving Target One common but increasingly difficult nonimmigrant option for employers is the L-1B intracompany status. For qualifying international organizations, it is … Continue reading >“Specialized Knowledge”: A Moving Target
Categories: General – Posted on June 3, 2011June 3, 2011 USCIS Launches Spanish E-Verify Site for Employers E-Verify is an on-line employment authorization system which is optional for most employers, and mandatory for certain federal contractors. The … Continue reading >USCIS Launches Spanish E-Verify Site for Employers
Categories: General – Posted on May 17, 2011May 17, 2011 President Obama on Immigration Reform The 2012 race to the White House has begun. Maybe it began four years ago. Whatever the case, President Obama … Continue reading >President Obama on Immigration Reform
