USCIS recently issued new guidance memo on Continuous Residence, Physical Presence, and Overseas Naturalization for a Spouse or Child of a Member of the Armed Forces per Amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act by the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. We link to this important Memo…
According to NPR, the answer is yes. They published results of a 10-year study involving more than 3,000 young men and women, most of them in their 20s. The “second generation” project looked at five groups — Russians, Dominicans, South Americans, Chinese and West Indians — and compared them with…
We wanted to remind our readers that Operation “Scheduled Departure”, A pilot program allowing illegal immigrants to surrender to authorities to avoid jail and have 90 days to leave the country, end today. According to the USCIS this program can be classified as big failure. In San Diego only 4…
This recent final rule from the Department of State amends the Department of State’s regulations relating to the application for a nonimmigrant visa, to generally require all applicants, with certain exceptions, to provide a set of ten scanned fingerprints as part of the application process. The scanning of ten fingerprints…
USCIS announced that in support of the initiatives of the National Ombudsman of the U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announces adoption of a small business non-retaliation policy. If a small business questions or lodges a complaint regarding a USCIS policy (for exanple the practices of…
Here is a true story that can happen from time to time. Client send his case to USCIS via DHL, the case never reaches USCIS as DHL loose the package. Client re files the case using FEDEX, and cancels the first check. Fedex package reaches USCIS and a case is…
I know that the title of this posting sounds like a bad joke, but it is true. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will roll out “Operation Scheduled Departure,” a pilot program created to encourage people who have outstanding deportation orders to turn themselves in. San Diego and four other U.S.…
Some good news for the weekend as provided by AILA. On 7/31/08 and 8/1/08, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration held a mark-up session and approved the following three pieces of immigration-related legislation: H.R. 6020, sponsored by Representative Lofgren (D-CA), would amend the INA to allow soldiers who have served…
I wanted to point out to an excellent article by staff writer for the ABA, Lynda Edwards, about the faith of those that help our armed forces in Iraq. Many of these people risk their lives to help our soldiers, and you would think that our government will make it…
The government is stepping up enforcement efforts against employers. ICE announced that a former and current top executive for a McDonald’s franchisee in Nevada, plead guilty to federal felony immigration offenses for encouraging undocumented foreign nationals to live in the United States. ICE officials claim that company management employed individuals…