This Thanksgiving we have a lot to be thankful for, we live in a country is considered to be the symbol of Freedom and Prosperity. Yet, it seems that this country and the government running it, is doing a very bad PR job is welcoming visitors and immigrants to this…
The California Service Center has informed AILA-CSC Liaison that it has changed its policy with respect to certain forms of concurrent H-1B employment. In the past, the CSC would approve an H-1B petition for concurrent employment that is cap-subject if the alien was the beneficiary of an approved H-1B petition…
I often deal with government agencies as it relates to immigration, most of the officials we deal with are nice and professionals. Yet from time to time, we come across government officials that feel either they are above the law or that acting as a human being may not be…
One of our Blog readers pointed out this morning that we are featured on the American Bar Associations National site. ABAJournal.com is the Web site of the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association and is the most exclusive publication for Lawyer in the US. We are fattered to be…
From time to time I will be posting about local updates and important changes that will affect clients and local readers of the Blog. In the past few weeks, the local Immigration offices started scheduling Marriage based adjustment of status interviews in the Downtown office in addition to the Chula…
The up coming New Citizenship Test is generating q lot of interest and anxiety on the part of future applicants. I was interviewed by Fox 6 news last week about this subject and the report aired last night on the 10pm news edition. Click here to see the report and…
Guess what, New I-9 form released. On November 7th, 2007, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), Citizenship and Immigration Services (“CIS”) announced that it has released a new version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, as well at the M-274, Handbook for Employers, Instructions for Completing the Form I-9.…
I read this morning about a new anti-illegal immigration law that has some farmers and agricultural businesses scrambling for laborers. With excessive enforcement in Oklahoma, no farm workers are to be found to do the job. Read the full story here…
House and Senate appropriators are tentatively scheduled to convene a conference on Thursday, November 1st to combine the Defense, Military Construction-VA, and Labor-HHS-Education appropriations into one single bill. One of the issues with which legislators will have to contend is whether or not to remove the Grassley-Sanders amendment (H.ADMT. 3396)…
How many time have you heard people blame immigrants, especially illegal, for all the crimes in the country. The U.S. has 11.5 million illegal immigrants, about 4 percent of the total U.S. population, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. There are cases where such immigrants get involved in criminal activity,…