From its passage in 2002 until now, the USCIS has never issued so much as a memo explaining how to interpret the “automatic conversion” clause of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA). They left it to the Board of Immigation Appeals (BIA) to explain this in Matter of Wang in 2009. The USCIS argued that the clause be […]
We link to all immigration law decisions made by the Supreme Court of the United States from 1958 to the present. We link not only to the decisions themselves, but to the audios of the oral arguments before the Court, a summary of the facts of the case, the question before the Court and the […]
On January 16, 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued the deci sion in the CSS v. Reno predicted by the December 5, 1997 letter by the plaintiffs’ attorneys reprinted below. Essentially, the Court ruled in favor of the government, and ordered the District Court to dismiss all of the plaintiffs’ […]
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In 2008, all four Oscar winners in the acting categories went to foreign-born persons: Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor), Marion Cotillard (Best Actress), Javier Bardem (Best Supporting Actor), and Tilda Swinton (Best Supporting Actress). Of course, these actors were all selected by their colleagues, and what do they know about acting? Imagine if the Oscar winners were […]
On July 29, the National Review Online broke the story about a leaked USCIS memo entitled “Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform”. Immediately, Senate Republicans went on the attack. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) did not hesitate to invoke the dreaded “A word”: “This memo give credence to our concerns that the administration will go to great lengths to […]
On July 28, Federal District Court Judge Susan Bolton granted a preliminary injunction against major sections of Arizona’s new immigration law which were scheduled to become effective the following day. In a 36-page decision, Judge Bolton found that the United States is “likely to succeed on the merits in showing that the following sections of […]
For the past three years, all of our articles about the monthly Visa Bulletin have been filled with gloom and doom as the EB numbers continued to retrogress. Absent a legislative fix, we are not about to uncork any bottles of champagne this month. However, we would be remiss if we failed to note that the […]
Ever wonder how many people get green cards in the U.S. in a year? In 2009, the number was 1.1 million, slightly above the numbers in 2007 and 2008. And what countries did the immigrants come from? Did the number of immigrants coming from one country exceed 50% of the total? Hardly! Only 15% of […]
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