Is Arizona's Rejection of Anti-Immigrant Measures a Bellwether for Other States?Last week, Arizona’s business community worked with state Senators to kill an omnibus package of anti-immigrant bills—bills which included provisions to limit citizenship to the U.S. born children of immi...
March 27, 2011Immigrant Entrepreneurs May Speed Up Our Economic RecoveryAs America’s economic recovery continues to be a national priority, leaders on both sides of the aisle are finally beginning to look at reforming our nation’s immigration system as a strategy for promoting job creating and gro...
March 27, 2011ICE Temporarily Suspends Removal of Japanese NationalsAILA has learned that in light of the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has temporarily suspended the removal of Japanese nationals from the United States. ICE will continue ...
March 24, 2011ICE: Missouri woman sentenced to 12 months for employing illegal aliensST. LOUIS, Mo. - A local woman was sentenced Tuesday to a year in prison for transporting, harboring and hiring illegal aliens to work at the Chinese restaurant she managed. This sentence resulted from a worksite ...
March 24, 2011USCIS - H-1B Cap Exemptions Based on Relation or AffiliationWASHINGTON— U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today, in response to recent stakeholder feedback, that it is currently reviewing its policy on H-1B cap exemptions for non-profit entities that...
March 24, 2011VWP ADJUSTMENT UPDATE COMING SOONFOLLOWING REPORTS FROM AILA CHAPTER: USCIS LIAISON INFORMS THAT A FAVORABLE RESOLUTION ON THE QUESTION OF ADJUSTMENT ELIGIBILITY FOR VISA WAIVER PROGRAM (VWP) ADMITTEES HAS BEEN REACHED. AILA LIASON HAS CONFIRMED THAT USCIS HEADQUARTERS HAS ...
March 8, 2011BALCA held that the use ofICE press release announcing that Frediberto Pineda was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and 10 years of supervised release, for drug possession charges, and unlawful re-entry to the U.S. after deportation. Pineda will be deported after serving his active se...
March 8, 2011BALCA Says Use of "Not Qualified" to Document Rejection of Applicants Is InsufficientBALCA held that the use of "not qualified," without more, was insufficient for the CO to make a proper determination under 20 CFR §656.17(g)(2) that the applicants were rejected for l...
March 8, 2011•FY2011 H-2B Cap Count (Updated 03/01/11)As of 3/4/11, USCIS receipted 17,242 petitions toward the 33,000 H-2B cap amount for the second half of the fiscal year. This count includes 12,607 approved and 4,635 pending petitions. H-2B cap count information for the first half of ...
March 8, 2011Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) ProgramIntroduction:The Web-based Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) is a tool designed to enhance USCIS’s adjudications of certain employment-based immigration petitions. VIBE uses commer...
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