USCIS Announces TPS for South Sudan and Extension for SudanUSCIS announced an 18-month TPS designation for South Sudan and extension for Sudan, as well as an automatic EAD extension for current TPS beneficiaries. Both the designation and the extension are in effect from November 3, 2...
October 19, 2011ICE FY2011 Removal NumbersICE announced that in FY2011, it removed 396,906 individuals, with 90 percent of removals falling into a priority category. ...
October 19, 2011USCIS To Restore Prior I-797 Mailing ProceduresUSCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas announced on October 20, 2011, that the prior I-797 mailing procedures will be restored in approximately six weeks and that original notices will once again go to the attorney of record, with copies to t...
October 19, 2011Dayton, Ohio Passes Plan to Revitalize Economy through Immigrant IntegrationBusiness,Demographics,Economics,Employment,Entrepreneurship,Immigration Blog,Integration,Reform by Geena JacksonShortly after Alabama began implementing their anti-immigration law (HB 56), Dayt...
October 13, 201118-Month Extension of Temporary Protected Status for SomaliaCurrent TPS Beneficiaries Also Granted AutomaticExtension of Work AuthorizationReleased Oct. 13, 2011WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security JanetNapolitano extended the Temporary Protected Sta...
October 13, 2011Restrictionist GOP Members Rely on Scare Tactics in Hearing on Prosecutorial DiscretionAdministration,Congress,Department of Homeland Security,Enforcement,Hearings,Immigration Blog,Prosecutorial Discretion,Restrictionists,Rhetoric,Undocumented Immigration by Mary GiovagnoliThe...
October 13, 2011The Facts (and Numbers) Don’t Matter in AlabamaThe Facts (and Numbers) Don’t Matter in AlabamaCopy Cat Legislation,Economics,Enforcement,Immigration Blog,Restrictionists,SB 1070,State and Local Immigration Law,Undocumented Immigration by Wendy SefsafAs e...
October 13, 2011Governor Jerry Brown Signs Immigration Bills that Help, Not Hurt, California’s EconomyDREAM Act,E-Verify,Economics,Enforcement,Immigration Blog,State and Local Immigration Law,Undocumented Immigrationby by: Seth HoyTake note, Alabama. Over the weekend, Governor Jerry Brown sig...
October 13, 2011California Governor Signs Second Half of Dream ActCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill giving illegal immigrant college students access to state-funded financial aid, the second half of two-part legislation known as the "Dream Act."The controversial measure, w...
October 9, 2011Instructions for the 2013 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2013)For DV-2013, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply because the countries sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants each to the United States in the previous five years:Banglade...
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