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2010
February/March
- The Broken Asylum Clock: New Report Calls for Important Reforms to the Employment Authorization Asylum Clock System
- H-1B Cap For Fiscal Year 2011 Allows for Filings on April 1, Don't Delay!
- Continuing Challenges Linger with E-Verify Electronic Employment Verification Program, Highlight Urgent Need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- and more…
January
- What Could Be More Important than Stimulating the Economy and Bolstering National Security? Making the Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Securing an L-1B - What's Knowledge Got to Do With It?
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Opines on "Appropriate" Employer-Employee Relationships for H-1B Purposes
- and more…
2009
December
- What Does USCIS' Fraud Detection Unit Want From You?
- HIV Positive Immigrants'Applications For Inadmissability Waivers To Be Held In Abeyance
- Hopeful Progess In Resolving Surviving Spouses Limbo
- and more…
October/November
- Long Wait Continues for Employment-Based Green Card Applicants
- The Best and the Brightest Fleeing America - Why We Urgently Need Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- FY 2010 H-1B Cap Count Jumps 7,000 in one month to 52,800
- and more…
October - Special Alert
- Customs and Border Protection Warns of Tougher Stance on Returning Lawful Permanent Residents with Criminal Convictions
- and more…
September
- What Does USCIS' Fraud Detection Unit Want From You?
- HIV Positive Immigrants'Applications For Inadmissability Waivers To Be Held In Abeyance
- Hopeful Progess In Resolving Surviving Spouses Limbo
- and more…
August
- E-Verify Set to Take Effect September 8, 2009
- A Potential Crack in the Armor Against Granting Asylum to Those Who Resist Induction into Gangs
- Below average performance by U.S. students in math and science portends a continued need for foreign workers
- and more…
July
- DHS Secretary Napolitano Highlights Administration's Support for E-Verify, Requirement for Use by Certain Government Contractors by September 8
- ESTA Application Poses Dilemma for Certain Short-Term Business Visitors
- First Preference Immigrants from China and India Encouraged to File Petitions Immediately Given Looming Threat of Priority Date Retrogression
- and more…
June
- LATEST GRIM VISA BULLETIN PROJECTIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT-BASED GREEN CARDS ILLUSTRATE NEED FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM
- DHS AND CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS OFFER HOPE THAT SURVIVING SPOUSES OF US CITIZENS WILL ACHIEVE PARITY UNDER IMMIGRATION LAWS
- SUMMER TRAVEL ALERT
- and more…
May
- THE SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY REJECTS THE MISUSE OF FELONY AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT AGAINST FOREIGN WORKERS
- SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT TRADITIONAL STANDARD APPLIES TO STAYS OF REMOVAL FOR CASES UNDER APPELLATE REVIEW
- IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR EMPLOYERS OF H-1B VISA HOLDERS
- and more…
February
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE'S VISA BULLETIN REFLECTS SUSTAINED HIGH DEMAND FOR EMPLOYMENT-BASED IMMIGRANT VISAS NUMBERS
- U.S. SUPREME COURT ADDRESSES PERSECUTOR BAR IN NEGUSIE V. HOLDER
- WIDOWS OF U.S. CITIZENS FILE CLASS ACTION SUIT CHALLENGING THE "WIDOW PENALTY"
- and more…
January
- USCIS ANNOUNCES H-2B CAP REACHED FOR FY 2009
- AG DECISION IN MATTER OF COMPEAN DECLARES IMMIGRANTS IN REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO COUNSEL
- E-VERIFY REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS IS DELAYED AND FATE OF E-VERIFY PROGRAM UNKNOWN
- and more…