Archive for the ‘Enforcement’ Category
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday that it has expanded Secure Communities criminal alien initiative to Sacramento and Solano counties in Northern California. The Secure Communities program is an initiative developed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that modernizes the process used ...
Posted in California Counties, DHS, DOJ, Enforcement, ICE, Sacramento, Secure Communities, Solano | 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 »
Monday, January 4th, 2010
According to the report, the new State and local E-Verify requirements went into effect on January 1, 2010 in Georgia, South Carolina, Illinois, and Lancaster, California. The South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act requires all employers with 100 more employees to participate in E-Verify or only hire employees who possess ...
Posted in California, E-Verify, E-Verify Changes Effective from Jan 01 2010, Enforcement, Georgia, Illinois, Lancaster, South Carolina, South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act | No Comments »
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Effective January 04, 2010, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer detain asylum seekers arriving at U.S. ports of entry and who have a credible fear of persecution or torture. The revised guidelines announced on December 16, 2009 will permit parole from detention, which temporarily authorizes aliens to ...
Posted in Detention Reform Initiatives, Enforcement, ICE Issues New Procedure for Asylum Seekers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Parole from Detention | 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, Dental and Skeletal Radiographs, DHS, Enforcement, House Appropriations Committee, ICE, Immigration adn Customs Enforcement, Office of Inspector General, OIG, Undocumented Immigrants | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Announcing that it will grant parole on a case-by-case basis to qualifying individuals in certain groups of aliens in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on November 30, 2009, have released Question and Answers. The Q&As clarify various doubts pertaining to the ...
Posted in Enforcement, Filing Fees, Grant of Parole, Immediate Relative, Immigration and Nationality Act, Parole Authority for Certain Aliens in CNMI, Parole Status, Q&As, USCIS | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have announced on Monday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriation Act of 2010, signed by the President on October 28, 2009, has extended the following four programs through September 30, 2009:
E-Verify;
Immigrant Investor (EB-5) Pilot Program;
Special immigrant visa category for non-minister religious ...
Posted in Certain Religious Workers, Conrod 30 Program, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriation Act of 2010, DHS, E-Verify, EB - 4, EB - 5, EB-5 Visa, Enforcement, Green Card & Citizenship, Immigrant Investor (EB-5) Pilot Program, Immigrant Visas, Investor Pilot Program, J-1 Nonimmigrant Exchange Visitors, Permanent Resident, Special Immigrant Visa Category for Non-Minister Religious Workers, USCIS, USCIS Programs Extended Through September 2012 | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers asking them to provide records to prove their workers are legal. Kelly Lotus, a spokeswoman for the state Agency of Agriculture, says immigration officials visited four farms on Thursday. She says the move creates another level of anxiety and stress ...
Posted in Agency of Agriculture, Crackdown on Vermont Dairy Farms, Enforcement, Federal Immigration Officials, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Lotus, Patrick Leahy | No Comments »
Friday, November 20th, 2009
In its latest report to the Congress on Department of Homeland Security’ (DHS’) U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the US-VISIT components at varying stages of completion require an “integrated and reliable schedule.” Putting forward its recommendations, GAO asked ...
Posted in DHS, Enforcement, GAO, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, US- Visit | No Comments »
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano, along with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Alejandro Mayorkas had announced the “I E-Verify” campaign to recognize the approximately 170,000 businesses nationwide that seek to maintain legal workforces by ...
Posted in Alejandro Mayorkas, DHS, E-Verify, Employment Eligibility, Enforcement, I E Verify, ICE, John Morton, Legal Workforce, Napolitano, USCIS | No Comments »
