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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Elucidating the problems that every single worker including U.S. citizens will face on implementation of E-Verify employment-verification system, the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) recently made public its report dated February 11, 2009. The IPC report exposes claims of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) various sets of data regarding the ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have announced that due to system errors a number of Application Support Centers (ASC) have been overscheduled during the week of July 6-10, 2009. Consequently, some applicants may receive cancellation notices for appointment originally scheduled during this timeframe. Applicants who do not receive ...
Posted in Application Support Centers, Rescheduling, Uncategorized, USCIS | No Comments »
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
In line with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s pledge to prosecute employers knowingly hiring alien workers in violation of law, three Kansas City area employment firms have been charge allegedly for smuggling hundreds of foreign workers into the country to work illegally as “modern day slaves.” The indictment clearly indicates ...
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Leading way for others, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department became the first law enforcement body in California to implement Secure Communities Program. Secure Communities administered by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), streamlines the process by which ICE determines whether an individual in the prison system is a removable ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
In efforts to beef up security at the Northern Border, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to Detroit and Ottawa on Tuesday and Wednesday. Secretary Napolitano is scheduled to meet key Canadian officials like Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
The American Immigration Law Foundation’s (AILF’s) Litigation Clearinghouse Newsletter has highlighted that over the past few weeks, the Supreme Court (SC) issued two decisions in immigration related cases, heard arguments in a third immigration case, and granted a petition for certiorari in a fourth case. In the Flores-Figueroa Case, the ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
The Director of International Affairs and Trade, Mr. David Gootnick, presented his testimony before the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, Committee on Natural Resources, and House of Representatives on Potential Economic Impact of Applying U.S. Immigration Law to the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The report concentrated ...
Posted in CNMI, DOL, DOS, GAO Report, Uncategorized, US Immigration | No Comments »
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Dispelling the long-standing perception of linking mounting unemployment with immigrants, the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) has released two reports concluding that recent immigration is not leading to a rise in unemployment of natives in the United States. Denying any nexus between unemployment and immigrants, IPC demographer Rob Paral, demographer and ...
Posted in Immigration, IPC, Rob Paral, Uncategorized, Unemployment | No Comments »
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
With enforcement agencies like Department of Homeland Security (DHS) going at full throttle to audit the Employee Eligibility Verification form (I-9), the LexisNexis is organizing a 20 minute Webinar on I-9. Author/attorney Ann Allot, who has been involved in many high profile cases, will guide the audience through her carefully ...
Posted in Attorney Ann Allot, Form I-9, LexisNexis, Uncategorized, Webinar | No Comments »
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
The Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Ombudsman submitted certain recommendations on improving the filing and review process for motions to reopen and reconsider before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Ombudsman opined that motions to reopen and reconsider play an essential role in USCIS adjudication process, lending an additional measure ...
Posted in Customer Service, Motion to Reconsider, Motion to Reopen, Ombudsman, Uncategorized, USCIS | No Comments »
