August 28, 2018|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
The Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) recently reassigned a high profile case to an out-of-town immigration judge handpicked by EOIR headquarters. The reason it took the case away from one judge and gave it to another was because the original judge hadn’t issued a removal order as quickly as the administration had wanted. In […]
August 23, 2018|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
On Friday, August 17, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled that the Trump administration does not have to accept new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but must continue processing renewals while the future of the program is under appeal. In addition, Bates ordered that the Trump administration does not have […]
August 7, 2018|Contributed by: Jennifer Howard
This week marks eleven months since the Trump administration announced the cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. However, the fate of DREAMers remains just as uncertain as that day in September when the program benefitting an estimated 800,000 was rescinded. Just this past Friday, August 3, 2018, a U.S. District Court […]
July 27, 2018|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
New restrictive interpretations of immigration laws and enforcement without discretion continue to rock immigrants, families, and businesses around the country. With the nonstop deluge of bad immigration news, it can be easy to forget that cases continue to get approved. As a bit of a respite, here are some of the good things we’ve seen […]
July 27, 2018|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
In a prior post, Employment-based Permanent Residency, Can You Sponsor Your ‘Skilled” or “Other Worker”?, we reviewed the basic process for Labor Certification/PERM as required for the “Skilled” or “Other Worker” categories. The requirements that an employer must meet and document in order to sponsor a foreign worker for the EB-2 “Advanced degree” and the […]
July 27, 2018|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
The Consular Electronic Application Center (CEAC) is an essential tool for completing any consular processing case that involves an immigrant visa. Applicants (or their attorneys) must login to this online system to pay the government filing fees (fee bills), choose an agent, and to submit their immigrant visa application. There is no other option to […]
July 5, 2018|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
The submission of the ETA Form 9089, Application for Permanent Employment Certification, (also known as a Labor Certification, or PERM Application) is the first step for many foreign nationals in obtaining permanent residency in the United States. The importance of filing this first step is that the date of the filing of the PERM application […]
June 28, 2018|Contributed by: Courtney Sommer
In the span of 9 months, President Trump issued three separate versions of a travel ban, each one struck down by a federal court before it could do much damage. The third travel ban was the last to be issued and struck down by a federal court. But on Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court issued […]
June 27, 2018|Contributed by: Jennifer Howard
The Trump administration is adding another weapon to its stockpile in the war on immigration by seeking to broaden the definition of who is likely to become a “public charge” and in effect to make it more difficult for immigrants to come to the United States. Specifically, the U.S. Department of State changed the Foreign […]
June 22, 2018|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
This week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for Brazilian immigrant Wescley Pereira in Pereira v. Sessions, finding that the charging document was defective and did not cut off the time in the United States he needed to establish to apply for cancellation of removal. Many thousands of immigrants in removal proceedings are likely to benefit […]
