Just recently Time Magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its “Person of the Year”. Among other things, Time noted her role in Europe’s migration crises. Time wrote that Chancellor Merkel had provided “steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in...
Year: 2015
Proposed STEM OPT Extension and “Cap Gap” Relief
On October 19, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register seeking to improve and expand training opportunities for F-1 nonimmigrant students with science, technology, engineering or math degrees...
The Visa Bulletin : What is it and How is it Used?
Something a little different, but if you’re advising a client who is waiting in line for an employment-based or family-based immigrant visa (e.g., basically, a Green Card), it’s critical that you know what the Visa Bulletin is, and how to use it. So what’s the Visa...
Immigration Reform by Executive Action – Texas v. United States (The Latest)
Back to politics (disguised as a review of a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision). Briefly, on May 26, 2015, a divided panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to lift a temporary injunction against the implementation of President Obama’s executive action...
“Crimmigration” and the Repeal of Silva Trevino
So I’m going to take a moment to move away from politics and instead discuss some positive developments in the world of “crimmigration.” On April 10, 2015, former Attorney General Eric Holder vacated in its entirety the November 7, 2008 opinion of Matter of...
H-1B Filing Season Comes and Goes: Why the Cap Should be Raised
So, a little more than a year has passed since I wrote about the 2015 – 2016 H-1B filing season being upon us, and here we are again. April 1 has now come and gone, a new H-1B filing season was upon us, because on April 7, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
Immigration Reform by Executive Action – Were the President’s Actions Lawful?
Some time has now passed since President Obama announced on November 20, 2014 his intention to go it alone to “fix” of our “broken immigration system.” Since that announcement, lawyers such as myself were hopeful that we could start working with clients on their...
Immigration Reform by Executive Action – What Else Did the President Do?
OK, to close the proverbial loop on President Obama’s administrative “fix” of our “broken immigration system”, here’s a few other things that the President announced on November 20, 2014. For more details on all aspects of this Executive Action, please see my two...
Obama’s Immigration Executive Action: Some Lawful Immigration Changes
So of course the centerpiece of President Obama’s administrative “fix” of our “broken immigration system” are his initiatives to grant “deferred action” to some aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States, and who were brought to the United States as...