We can all laugh to a good joke form time to time, but this story is not funny at all. Target Corp., based in Minneapolis, has apologized for selling a Halloween costume that came under fire for its “illegal alien” theme.The company said it was sorry for selling the $39.99…
The H2B seasonal visa is considered to be the most abused type of visa. Typically workers coming on this visa are from low economic background and often uneducated. In many cases, employers can file for many workers on one petition, making this a lucrative business for fraudulent recruiters and agencies.…
Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) John Morton announced standardized Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs) with 67 state and local law enforcement agencies to participate in 287(g) partnerships by prioritizing criminal aliens who are a threat to local communities. The administration had previously suspended the program, which critics…
India has expressed its concern to the Chinese government over Beijing issuing visas on a separate sheet of paper to Indian nationals from Jammu and Kashmir instead of stamping them in their passports. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India strongly believes this, as a well-thought-out strategy to question the status…
Wilmer Rivera Melendez, 61, pretended to be a lawyer and offered to help more than a dozen undocumented Guyanese immigrants in Brooklyn to get green cards, has been indicted in an immigration fraud scheme in which he is accused of offering to marry two illegal Guyanese immigrants in Brooklyn to…
H-1B Quota is still available for all employers. Employers who have not yet proceeded with new H-1B filing can go ahead now too as per their business requirements. After many years since the Cap of H-1B started, it is still available even after Sept. 30, 2009. As of this writing,…
Since the H1B filing season opened up in April 2009, cases were subject to greater scrutiny by USCIS. While we still have H1B visas available, the denial rate of filed cases is on the rise. I would say say that we have a 30% increase in RFE’s received this year.…
On October 13, hundreds of people from across the nation will be gathering in Washington and across America to tell Congress that immigration reform can’t wait. We encourage our readers to take action as best as you can. If we want for a major reform to pass this time, this…
A Blog reader called me the other day and wanted to know when his priority date will become current. His I-485 adjustment was filed in August 2007 when visas opened up for 30 days, and since that time retrogressed. The applicant is from India and like many others in his…
Recently the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an advance copy of the final rule rescinding the agency’s regulations regarding the legal obligations of employers receiving no-match letters from the Social Security Administration (SSA). The rule rescinds DHS final regulations previously issued on August 15, 2007 and October 28, 2008,…