Former INS Attorney Carl Shusterman has been writing an immigration blog on a regular basis since 1996.
Is there any chance that we will get Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) before the end of the year? President Obama remains hopeful. He is even willing to drop the Senate’s approach and have Congress pass a number of immigration bills as many Republicans in the House of Representatives are proposing. “If they want to chop that […]
An interesting development recently occurred in our CSPA lawsuit. When Congress passed the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) in 2002, there was wide bipartisan support concerning the need to change the immigration law to prevent the separation of families during the waiting process. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the legislation unanimously, […]
Various companies have paid one million dollars or more to the government in order to settle cases involving immigration violations. However, the $34 million settlement that an Indian IT company recently agreed to pay is the largest yet. What did the company do to bring this on itself? The U.S. Attorneys’ Office in the East […]
On October 30, new USCIS websites were introduced, in English and in Spanish. The new sites are designed to enhance the user experience. In the past, I’ve always had a difficult time finding the information I needed on uscis.gov. Because of this, I made sure that our website links to the most helpful pages on USCIS […]
In October, California Governor Jerry Brown signed 9 immigration bills into law. This stands in marked contrast to the U.S. House of Representatives which has yet to pass a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill since the Senate passed one on a bipartisan basis last June. One bill that Governor Brown signed will allow undocumented immigrants to […]
For those concerned about the shortage of physicians in the United States – and for foreign born physicians– there is some good news. The pending Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill (S.744) would make significant and far reaching changes in the laws governing the immigration of internationally-born physicians to the United States. There would be beneficial […]
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill (S.744), introduced in the U.S. Senate in April 2013, creates a Pathway to Citizenship for over 11 million undocumented persons. (The bill is not law yet. To become a law, a bill must pass both the Senate and the House of Representatives and be signed into law by the President.) […]
On March 8, the USCIS published the 7th edition of a two-page Employment Eligibility I-9 form. The passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made the form mandatory for all new hires. The new I-9 form may be used by employers now and becomes mandatory on May 8, 2013. Until […]
Should I file to receive CSPA benefits? If so, how soon? If not, then when?
These questions and others are answered in this month’s blog post.
On January 25, the U.S. Department of Justice submitted a 150-page Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court requesting the Court to review our victory in DeOsorio v. Mayorkas in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Since we originally challenged the government’s failure to implement the “automatic conversation” clause […]
