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WITH GOVERNMENT AT STANDSTILL, PRIVATE ENTERPRISE BEGINS TO TAKE ACTION

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  By: John Nicholas Mandalakas* It seems like when you hear immigration today, everyone is centered on migrant workers seeking unskilled jobs, but there is a huge section of immigration that is often overlooked. Take for instance, the American Scientist Shortage—that is to say, the lack of graduates for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematic (STEM) […]

Important Immigration Programs Extended

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By:  John Nicholas Mandalakas* The EB – 5 Regional Center , E-Verify Program, Special Nonminister Religious Worker, and Conrad state 30 J-1 Visa programs were approved for a three year extension late on Friday, September28. The EB – 5 Regional Center program allows immigrants who invest 500,000 -1,000,000 in ‘regional centers’ which provide at least […]

Noncitizens Can Seek Reopening and Reconsideration of Their Cases from Outside the US

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The Legal Action Center (“LAC”), working with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, has challenged on multiple occasions the “departure bar,” a regulation that precludes noncitizen aliens from filing a motion to reopen or reconsider a removal case by aliens after they have left the United States. The problem with the “departure […]

NEW BILL CALLING FOR 55,000 MORE STEM VISAS

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By: Lusine Lisyanova* Today, New York Senator Charles Schumer (D) introduced a new bill before the Senate. This bill calls for an additional 55,000 STEM visas. STEM visas are for foreign-born individuals who have graduated from an American university with at least a master’s degree in a science, mathematics, technology, or engineering filed. Should this […]

Separation in Mexican Families

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By: Denise Ferrufino* The number of deportations executed throughout the Obama administration has exceeded the ones from previous years, and it is creating a devastating effect on the families of Mexican immigrants. In 2010, the Department of Homeland Security reported that there was an estimated population of 6, 640,000 unauthorized Mexican immigrants. Out of this […]

States Want Strict Immigration Law That Virginia Already Has

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By: Stephen Koerting* Arizona’s Immigration Law S.B. 1070 made national news when it was passed by state legislation in 2010, and again when the Supreme Court sustained the law’s centerpiece in June of this year. Ever since the inception of the Arizona law that stirred national attention, several states have called for their own tough […]

Religious Freedom 2012 Annual Report

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By: Stephen Koerting* On March 20, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published their annual report documenting religious freedom abuses and violations in 25 countries around the world. The report covered the period of April 2011 through February 2012 and designated violating countries as Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) or placed them […]

BACKLOGS AND DEPORTATIONS GROWING DESPITE PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION

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A year after the Morton’s memo on prosecutorial discretion, which intended to prioritize removal of criminals when deciding which illegal immigrants to deport, the backlog of cases in immigration courts reached new heights. In a recent article published by Texas Tribune, the author Julian Aguilar expresses the Texas immigration lawyers’ concern about the government not […]

Rule on Physical Presence for some Derivative Beneficiaries

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In another important decision, the BIA clarified in Matter of Ilic, 25 I.& N. Dec. 717 (BIA 2012) that only the principal beneficiary needs to satisfy the grandfathering rules including physical presence for the purpose of adjustment of status under INA § 245 (i). See INA § 245 (i)(1)(C). Svetislav Ilic who was the derivative […]