According to TRAC, Justice Department data show that Immigration Judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum. Denial rates have reached the lowest level in the last quarter of a century. Twenty five years ago, in FY 1986, almost nine out of ten (89%) of the asylum requests in the…
Here are the recent updates from USCIS on current H1B Cap Count for FY 2011: Regular Cap Limit: 65,000 Regular Cap Cases Filed: approx. 36,600 Date of Count: 03.Sep.2010 Advanced Degree Cap Limit: 20,000 Advanced Degree Cap Cases Filed: approx. 13,400 Date of Count: 09.Sep.2010 We will keep providing updates…
Costa Rica’s appeal to the Arizona District Court over the rights of illegal immigrants in the United States was thrown out last week because it was submitted past deadline. In an e-mail to The Tico Times, an assistant to the clerk of the court confirmed that “the motion was denied…
What a shameful story. DOJ announcement on the indictment of six individuals for engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and document servitude. The charges arise from the defendants’ alleged scheme to coerce the labor and services of approximately 400 Thai nationals to work on U.S. farms. The Justice…
Indian Government sources had said that the Bureau of Diplomatic Security had contacted the ministry of external affairs (MEA), India around the time Mr Pacheco was incarcerated for his alleged involvement in the mysterious death of his girlfriend Nadia Torrado — he was in jail from July 9 till July…
Figures show that between 2005 and 2009, illegal US immigration fell by more than 60 per cent. In the first half of the decade, an average of 850,000 people were moving to the US without the correct US visas. However, this has fallen to just 300,000 between 2007 and 2009,…
Haitian F-1 students experiencing severe economic hardship from the Jan. 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake eligible for employment authorization. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has approved special relief for certain F-1 Haitian students who have suffered severe economic hardship as result of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. This relief applies…
Proposals have been made in Congress for many years to confer an opportunity for the young students to become legalized. These proposals, commonly known as the “Dream Act”, so far have not gone too far in the legislative process. The terms of the Dream Act various. According to the latest…
We all know by now that Requests for Evidence in O1, H1, L1 and P cases have almost doubled in the past 12 months. It has now become a matter of practice at my firm, to let clients know that a Request for Evidence will most likely happen in their…
This is a recent update from the AILA Rome Chapter for the benefit of our readers. The State Department has substantially rewritten the FAM provisions relating to physical or mental disorders as medical grounds of inadmissibility. These significant changes, set forth at 9 FAM 40.11 N11, focus on physical or…