The American Immigration Lawyers Association is a great organization, and I am proud to be an active member. We know that this is also important to our clients and future clients. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) will celebrate its 4th Annual Citizenship Day on Saturday, April 17 by helping…
This Update is from AILA Rome Chapter, very important information for HIV infected immigrants and family members. This Post will attempt to lend clarity to the dynamic process by which HIV infection is being removed as a ground of inadmissibility under INA 212(a)(1). Although the date for final removal of…
American Immigration Lawyers Association on March 25, 2010 held their National Day of Action in an effort to bring about comprehensive immigration reform. The AILA National Day of Action is an annual event in which immigration lawyers from across the country meet in Washington DC for the purpose of speaking…
A United States Permanent Resident Card, known informally as a green card (due to the color of some earlier variants), is an identification card attesting to the permanent resident status of an alien in the United States of America. Green card also refers to an immigration process of becoming a…
A great program on KPBS this morning covered the case of Ruben Flores-Villar. Flores-Villar, 35, was born in Tijuana, Mexico, but grew up in the San Diego area, in the care of his father and grandmother. When he sought U.S. citizenship in 2006 — to fend off criminal charges of…
The National Foundation for American Policy released a few interesting facts about H1B visa usage. You will be surprised when you read the following: – Although important for the competitiveness of many U.S. companies, new H-1B visa holders represented only 0.06 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force in 2009,…
H1B filings are looking much better than last year. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced it continues to accept H-1B nonimmigrant petitions subject to the Fiscal Year 2011 (FY 2011) cap. USCIS will monitor the number of petitions received for both the 65,000 general cap and the 20,000…
This is the latest update as of Tuesday, April 6, 2010, Vermont Service Center, as of close of business on Monday, April 5, 2010, VSC had received a total of 9,525 cap-subject H-1B petitions. Of those petitions, 6,791 were “regular” cap, and 2,734 were advanced degree. All cases received before…
With all the scrutiny around H1B visas these days, clients and lawyers are always seeking alternative visas. There are not many, but we will explore the best options in the next few articles. The Trade NAFTA (TN) category of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) North American Free Trade…
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued report on legislative developments in visa policy over the past 20 years and analysis of statistical trends in visa issuances and grounds for exclusion. The conventional wisdom is that the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, prompted a substantive change in U.S. immigration policy…