Archive for March, 2009
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Carrying out the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA), US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has laid down new procedures, allowing Unaccompanied Alien children (UAC) in Removal proceedings to start asylum process in a non-adversarial setting. The Service also announced that from now onwards they will ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
In his review of Administrative Records assembled pursuant to Section 219(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, Deputy Secretary of State, Mr. James B. Steinberg concluded that the circumstances that were the basis for the 2003 ...
Posted in Foreign Terrorist Organization, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Related News | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
In a major relief to Indian IT services industry, Obama administration officials have assured the delegation of CEOs from Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) that there would not be any serious setback to the H-1B visa program unless unemployment rate in US falls drastically. The Chairman of Bharati Enterprises Mr. ...
Posted in CEO Delegation, Confederation of Indian Industry, H-1B | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
The readers might remember that on March 23, 2009, we posted news summary “New Portal for LCA and PERM Filing,” on our immigration news blog. There, we reported that the US Department of Labor (DOL) is expediting its plan to implement a new portal system called iCERT system this year. ...
Posted in Compliance, USDOL Immigration News and Information | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Recently, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Acting Deputy Director, Michael Aytes, sent a memorandum to Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Ombudsman, Michael T. Dougherty responding to Recommendation 36, that contains USCIS’s initiatives on improving the “Schedule A’ Nurse Visas processing.
On December 5, 2008, the CIS Ombudsman forwarded certain ...
Posted in CIS Ombudsman, Foreign Nurses, Immigration Reform, Michael Aytes, Recommendation 36, USCIS Acting Deputy Director | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
In view of President Obama’s directive suggesting presumption of openness while administering the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Attorney General Holder has issued new FOIA guidelines by annulling former Attorney General Ashcroft’s FOIA Memorandum of October 12, 2001. Ashcroft has stated that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could defend decisions ...
Posted in Compliance, Freedom of Information Act, US Attorney General | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is an agency within the Department of Justice that interprets and adjudicates immigration cases according to US immigration laws under delegated authority from Attorney General, Immigration Judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals. In 1987, the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer ...
Posted in Civil Rights Division Office, Compliance, Document Fraud, Employer Sanction, Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The Department of State (DOS) declared Saturday, March 28, 2009, as a “Passport Day in the US.” DOS and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are desperately trying to meet the sunset deadline of their plan known as “Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative” (WHTI). Whereby US citizens and non-immigrant aliens from Canada, ...
Posted in Compliance, National Passport Information Center, Passport Day, Travel Document | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced on Friday, additional H-1B requirements for employers receiving funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The new “Employ American Workers Act” (EAWA) that was signed into law on February 17, 2009, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...
Posted in Employ American Workers Act, H-1B, H-1B Dependent Employers, H-1B Requirements | No Comments »
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday that it will begin accepting H-1B petitions for financial year 2010 on April 1, 2009. It also clarified that the date of receipt of H-1B petition by USCIS will be considered the date of acceptance, and not the date that ...
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