September 6, 2022|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
DV-2022 Montreal Litigation FAQ Why are we suing? We are looking to assist individuals who have been selected in the DV-2022 program and have submitted all required documentation but are unable to get the State Department to complete processing on the case. This case is for DV-2022 selectees who have already been interviewed and have […]
August 25, 2022|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
It has been just over a year since the United States withdrew from Afghanistan and the country subsequently fell into Taliban control. Over 76,000 Afghan citizens were able to escape the country into the United States, but their futures in this country are all but clear. In the chaos of the evacuation, the Afghans that […]
August 24, 2022|Contributed by: Luke Niermann
Noncitizens who have served in the U.S. military may be eligible to apply for naturalization under special provisions of the law. For many of these current or former members of the military, some of the naturalization requirements applicable to the general public may not apply in their cases. Recently, United States Citizenship & Immigration Services […]
August 23, 2022|Contributed by: Zachary New
Without much fanfare, USCIS has concluded selections for the FY2023 H-1B lottery. Attorneys and companies that have registered individuals for the H-1B lottery in March of 2022 began to receive “not selected” notices around Saturday, August 20th, and it does not appear that any individual who was not selected in the initial lottery received a […]
August 22, 2022|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
According to the USCIS Ombudsman’s 2022 Annual Report, through the end of fiscal year 2020, the agency was taking 54.3 months to review U visa applications for immigrant victims of certain crimes. With the goal of conducting initial reviews of U visa applications more efficiently and providing eligible victims with employment authorization and deferred action […]
July 25, 2022|Contributed by: Zachary New
This month, the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, an oversight entity created by Congress over U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, issued its annual report to Congress regarding the state of USCIS and its recommendations on improvements to USCIS. This report echoes the issues that practitioners and those seeking immigration benefits have seen […]
July 22, 2022|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
In August of 2021, we published a post titled ICE’s Prosecutorial Discretion Roller Coaster detailing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempts to implement interim enforcement priorities and a federal court in Texas’s order thwarting their efforts. On September 30, 2021, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued new, non-interim, Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law […]
July 21, 2022|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
Over this past weekend, Mijente and the Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition held a demonstration at the American Association of Law Libraries Conference in Denver, Colorado. [1] The advocacy groups wanted to bring greater awareness to the fact that LexisNexis, one of the world’s largest information brokers, offers up sensitive information on immigrants to U.S. Immigration […]
July 8, 2022|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
Madhavan v. Jaddou Update Our case has been assigned to Senior Judge Thomas Samuel Zilly. The court has issued summons for the government defendants, which means we can now formally “serve” them papers to start their 60-day response clock next week. In the meantime we are also working on a motion for preliminary injunction, which […]
June 27, 2022|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), all workers regardless of their immigration status are entitled to their rights under established national labor standards, such as minimum wage, overtime pay, and safe workplace conditions. If an employee asserts one of their rights protected under labor laws, the FLSA prohibits employers from retaliating against that employee. […]
