On Tuesday, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), proposed the Legal Workforce Act (HR 2164). The bill would make it mandatory for nearly all businesses in the United States to verify the status of new workers through a government electronic database known as E-Verify. If it becomes law, employers with […]
By William Shwayri – law intern at Beach-Oswald Immigration Law Associates Lawmakers voted late Friday, June 24, 2011 to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples can wed, and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born. The same-sex marriage bill was […]
In late April, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it was ending the NSEERS ( National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) which was a special registration process for male foreign nationals from certain countries who are over age 16 and who entered the US as non-immigrants prior to September 10, 2001. This program was implemented […]
This notice announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is both extending the existing designation of Haiti for temporary protected status (TPS) for 18 months from July 23, 2011 through January 22, 2013, and redesignating Haiti for TPS for 18 months, effective July 23, 2011 through January 22, 2013. The extension allows current eligible […]
By William Shwayri – law school intern at Beach-Oswald Immigration Law Associates As the United States government and American people continue to support pro-democracy movements throughout the Middle East, there is a colder side of the “Arab Spring” that has largely been ignored by American policy makers – increasing violence towards the Middle East’s Christian […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced special relief for certain F-1 Libyan students who have suffered severe economic hardship as a direct result of the civil unrest in Libya since February 2011. This relief applies only to students who were lawfully present in the United States in F-1 status on Feb. […]
Stories of upward and inter-generational mobility have long animated the popular narrative describing how immigrants and their children integrate into US society, with poverty and access to gainful employment being powerful forces shaping how immigrants fare once they arrive in the United States. From national and state data we find some interesting facts: Nationally, immigrant […]
“As numerous witnesses testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the backlogs are likely to get worse before (or if) they get better. Juan Osuna, the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, noted that immigration judges’ burgeoning caseloads are “directly tied to annual increases in cases filed in the immigration courts by DHS.” […]
By William Shwayri (law student Intern at Beach-Oswald Immigration Law Associates, PC) On May 26, in a 5-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld a controversial Arizonan immigration law that critics believe amounts to a “business death penalty.” The Court’s decision in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting is part of the wider debate in the effort […]
On September 30, 2011, approximately 1,884 Liberian nationals who have been living in the United States will be at risk of removal if Congress or the President do not act. Since 1991, the United States has provided safe haven to thousands of Liberians who sought protection a result of Liberia’s devastating civil war. Liberians have […]
