In this article, attorney Ekaterina Powell from our office provides a summary of the key issues and analyzes the best practices for employers to follow in their immigration compliance efforts. The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) of the Department of Justice protects the rights…
Recently we have been getting calls from undocumented immigrants suffering from abuse by their employers. Some US employers think that just because a person has no status, that person has no rights. Well they are wrong! The main focus of this article is the rights of undocumented and illegal immigrants…
As part of an ongoing commitment to promote diversity and legal excellence efforts in the legal community, Jacob J. Sapochnick, PC and Higgs Fletcher & Mack, have forged a strategic alliance to further provide clients with a diverse pool of legal professionals and high-quality legal services, as well as to…
We all share the frustration of dealing with VIBE (Validation Instrument for Business Enterprise) requests for evidence. At this point many employers are wondering if this system is really that beneficial to accomplish the Government’s goal to verify employers. Some argue it is time to get rid of this program…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is implementing the first phase in a series of proposed enhancements to the EB-5 program. As of today, Applicants will be able to communicate directly with USCIS adjudicators via email in an effort to streamline the process and quickly raise and resolve issues and…
Last Wednesday, House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced the American Specialty Agriculture Act (H.R. 2847), legislation that would replace the existing H-2A agricultural worker program with a new H-2C visa program. The new H-2C visa program would be run by the Department of Agriculture. The new program would be…
Using a little-known government program, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pushed nearly 160,000 immigrants — many with deep ties to the United States — through an expedited deportation process, sometimes without adequately informing them of their right to a day in court. Federal authorities are increasingly…
Many Israelis were defrauded by Mr. San Klein in the past decade, he is known to be the mastermind behind the R1 visa fraud scheme.He admitted orchestrating a multi-faceted fraud scheme that included filing false tax returns and making false claims to enable aliens to obtain religious worker visas and…
We wanted to be the first to report of an alarming trend that we just learned about last month. Over the past month we received calls from family members of detained individuals who were picked up coming into San Diego via domestic flights from NYC, Miami and Atlanta. Most of…
Attorney Andrew Desposito of our office wrote this brief commentary on the split in courts across the country with their application of Padilla v. Kentucky The U.S. Supreme Court case Padilla v. Kentucky (2010) was an important ruling for many aliens facing deportation. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court…