Archive for the ‘Compliance’ Category
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Office of Public Engagement is inviting national stakeholders to join in a collaboration session with USCIS to outline the employment eligibility verification process that an employer confirms an employee’s eligibility to work in the United States. The USCIS Verification Division is responsible for ...
Posted in Compliance, E-Verify, Employment Eligibility Verification, I-9, USCIS, Verification Division | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to modify its system of records relating to Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) in order to accommodate more information that will be collected and maintained on individuals. ICE’s SEVIS-II is a system that tracks and monitors F, M, J ...
Posted in Compliance, Enforcement, ICE, New SEVIS System of Records, SEVIS, SEVIS-II System, Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Pursuant to Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to add a new system of records to its Security’s inventory, entitled United States Citizenship and Immigration Services-010 Asylum Information and Pre-Screening System of Records. This new system is composed of two existing legacy IT systems: ...
Posted in Asylum and Parole System and Asylum Pre-Screening System, Compliance, DHS, New Asylum Information and Pre-Screening System of Records, Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, Privacy Act of 1974, The Refugees, USCIS, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services-010 Asylum Information and Pre-Screening System of Records | No Comments »
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Wednesday, Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation announced that it has reached a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Texas and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in relation to an investigation on hiring and employment of individuals unauthorized to work at Pilgrims Pride’s plants in the Eastern District ...
Posted in Compliance, Eastern District of Texas, Non-prosecution Agreement, Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, Pilgrim’s Pride Settles Investigation for $4.5 Million, U.S. Attorney's Office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | No Comments »
Monday, December 21st, 2009
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended the December 31 REAL ID material compliance deadline, while the May 10, 2011 deadline for full compliance remains intact. The announcement came in the wake of a large majority of states and territories expressing their inability to meet December 31 deadline. ...
Posted in Compliance, DHS, December 31 REAL ID Material Compliance Deadline, National Governors Association, REAL ID | No Comments »
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) practices for determining the age of individuals in its custody, focusing on the use of dental or skeletal radiographs. The report was prepared at the request of the House ...
Posted in Age Determination Practices for Unaccompanied Children in Custody, Compliance, DHS, Dental and Skeletal Radiographs, Enforcement, House Appropriations Committee, ICE, Immigration adn Customs Enforcement, OIG, Office of Inspector General, Undocumented Immigrants | No Comments »
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has published Attorney General’s new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guidelines issued pursuant to the President’s directive. On January 21, 2009, the President issued a memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies on the FOIA. The memorandum mandated that the Attorney General issue ...
Posted in Accountability & Transparency, Compliance, Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, Office of Information Policy, President's Directives | No Comments »
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
In Yesterday’s Federal Register, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, gave a concurrent notice of a new system of records pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Visa Security Program Records (VSPR) and proposed rulemaking. In this proposed ...
Posted in Associated Paper Records, Compliance, Discloure of Records and Information, ICE Office of International Affairs, Privacy Act of 1974, Proposed Rules, Visa Security Program Records, Visa Security Program Tracking System | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Last week, more than 40 organizations have submitted a letter to Richard L. Skinner, Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, requesting an audit of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS). The letter, which calls for the DHS Inspector General to make findings on the effectiveness of the ...
Posted in Arab-American, Compliance, Muslim-American Community, NSEERS Audit, National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, South Asian-American, The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Pursuant to Vienna convention and other bilateral covenants between the United States and the United Mexican States, the Consulate General of Mexico in Houston, has entered into a local arrangement with Houston Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Field Offices for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for the safe ...
Posted in Compliance, Consular News, Consulate General of Mexico, Consultation Mechanism, Contracting Parties, Safe Orderly Dignified and Humane Repatriation of Mexican Nationals, United Mexican States, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations | No Comments »
