On November 9, 2015, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that President Obama’s executive action from November of 2014 which included the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) program…
11 Nov
In November of 2014, President Obama announced executive actions on immigration to great fanfare. Nearly a year later, some of the most high profile of those actions, including Deferred Action…
27 Oct
On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, the United States Senate considered Senator David Vitter’s (R-LA) “Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act” (S. 2146). The Senate rejected the motion to proceed…
27 Oct
On October 19, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) issued updated regulations for comment on the extension of Optional Practical Training (“OPT”) for F-1 students earning science, technology, engineering, and…
23 Oct
In an important decision issued this week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that subsection 16(b) of the United States Code, Title 18, is unconstitutionally vague in the context…
23 Oct
As previously reported on the Joseph & Hall P.C. Blog, the U.S. State Department published on September 9, 2015 its monthly Visa Bulletin containing major, long-awaited changes to the government’s…
01 Oct
On September 25, 2015, the Department of State issued revised Visa Bulletin for October 2015. The revised bulletin supersedes the previous bulletin which had been published on September 9, 2015. …
25 Sep
Each month, the Department of State publishes family-based and employment-based visa availability in the Visa Bulletin, which indicates when visas are available to adjustment-of-status applicants based on their individual priority…
24 Sep
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