Archive for February, 2009
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
USCIS is going to expand the Premium Processing Services for certain Form I-140 petitions, which will include alien beneficiaries who have or are going to reach their limitation of stay in H-1B non-immigrant status.
Starting from March 2, 2009, USCIS will accept Form I-907 for alien workers, who:
Are the beneficiaries ...
Posted in AC21, Form I-140, Green Card & Citizenship, Premium Processing Service | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
The Pennsylvania Superior Court decided a case that involves a question of great public importance and could have far-reaching effects in future. The appeals court tried to demarcate the boundaries for lower and trial courts, when dealing with undocumented immigrant cases. The appeal pertains to an undocumented Mexican man (Ulises ...
Posted in Pennsylvania Superior Court, Removal, Sua Sponte | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
A south Texan woman, Monica Castro, filed a lawsuit against the US federal government for deporting her 1-year-old daughter, who is a US citizen to Mexico. Castro sued the government for violating her daughter’s constitutional rights. As she has not seen her daughter for three years after the Border Patrol ...
Posted in Green Card & Citizenship, New Orleans Fifth Circuit Court | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
In an unprecedented move, Border Patrol agents blocked immigration activists from entering a plaza known as “Friendship Park.” Activists had to disperse without staging their planned demonstration as Border Patrol agents sealed off access on the U.S. side of the plaza, a popular meeting place on the US-Mexico border for ...
Posted in Foundation for Change, Related News, San Diego Friendship Park | No Comments »
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) gave an update to its customers that the provisions of EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program will expire or sunset at midnight on March 6, 2009. The objective of this pilot program is to allow eligible aliens to become lawful permanent residents and simultaneously ...
Posted in EB-5 Visa, I-485, I-526 | No Comments »
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The U.S Secretary of Defense Robert Gates signed a memorandum on November 25, 2008, authorizing the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air force to implement a new non-citizen recruitment pilot program for the United States Armed Forces. This program is called the ‘Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest’ ...
Posted in Green Card & Citizenship, Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest | No Comments »
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) released a warning that after enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, it will be unlawful for any Title I Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 funding recipient to hire any H-1B non-immigrants for new employment, unless the recipient ...
Posted in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, H-1B | No Comments »
Friday, February 20th, 2009
The three-judge panel of a federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that ordered the government to release 17 Uighurs and resettle them with Uighur families in the Washington region.
All the seventeen Uighurs are Chinese Muslims detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The appeals court ...
Posted in Chinese Muslims, Related News, Uighurs | No Comments »
Friday, February 20th, 2009
On February 23, 2009, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is scheduled to publish a final rule providing for employer-specific employment authorization for certain aliens lawfully enlisted in the U.S. Armed Forces and those whose enlistment is determined to be vital to the national interest. This rule allows the Department ...
Posted in Aliens Enlisting, Compliance | No Comments »
