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SECURE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM SPREAD TO WEST VIRGINIA
On October 26, 2010, the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) implemented Secure Communities to all the counties of West Virginia this past October. Secure Communities is ICE’s new system...
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Supreme court hears employment discrimination case
The case is Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting (09-115). A ruling is expected by June. Justices hear case over punishing businesses that hire illegal workers By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer A...
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced today a pilot program…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced today a pilot program at El Paso port of entry/Ysleta international crossing for travelers with approved Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI)...
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Greece planning border fence with Turkey
According to Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis, Greece is planning to build a fence to keep out illegal immigrants coming across from Turkey. In the past six months over 33, 000 illegal...
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HELP HAITI ACT OF 2010 – IMPLEMENTED ON DECEMBER 9, 2010
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has implemented the Help HAITI Act of 2010 in order to give legal permanent resident status to Haitian orphans who were paroled into the...
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NEW IMPROVEMENTS TO CONSULAR REPORT AT BIRTH ABROAD CERTIFICATES
The Department of State has redesigned the Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) to make the documents more secure and highly difficult to forge. CRBA is an official system of recording overseas...
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The Future of Egypt: President Hosni Mubarak Steps Down
by Liz Veit, L.L.M. Candidate George Washington University, J.D. Hamlin School of Law The citizens of Egypt have spoken, “Leave, Leave, Leave!” Their message is heard around the international...
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POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR IMMIGRANT SPONSORS – HIGHER IN 2011 THAN 2010
The poverty guidelines for the year 2011 are significantly higher than those of 2010. Poverty guidelines are established by the Department of Health and Human Services and affect those who are...
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Secure Communities a Trap for the Unwary
ICE’s ‘Secure Communities’ program is NOT voluntary. A voluntary program to run all criminal suspects’ fingerprints through an immigration database was only voluntary until cities refused to...
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State Department Visa Bulletin for March 2011
On February 11, the State Department released the March 2011 Visa Bulletin. The Worldwide Employment-Based (EB) preference categories remain current for EB-1, EB-2, EB-4 and EB-5. In the Worldwide EB-3...
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Benefited Not Burdened: Immigrants’ Impact on the DC-VA-MD Area
Immigrants, both authorized and unauthorized, contribute greatly to the economies of the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. With close to 1.8 million immigrants in the DC-VA-MD[1] area,...
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Evolving Trends in Refugee and Asylee Admissions to the US
Every year, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics issues a report analyzing trends in Refugee and Asylum Admissions to the U.S. The 2013 Annual Flow Report on Refugees...
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Nationality Trends in New Naturalized Citizens in the US
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released its Annual Flow Report analyzing naturalization patterns for the preceding year. This report uses administrative records consisting of...
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Opening a Window for Asylum Claims Based on Family Ties
In Aldana-Ramos v. Holder, just issued on June 27, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that family alone can constitute a particular social group, and thus an asylee...
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Two Years Later: The Impact of DACA
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program is an Obama Administration initiative implemented to extend rights and benefits to the growing number of undocumented youths and young adults...
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Immigration Court Backlogs Reach All-Time High
Due to the recent surge of unaccompanied children migrants the backlog in Immigration Courts has reached an all-time high. At the end of June the back log totaled 375,503 cases, which is an increase...
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Increase in Fees by Department of State
The Department of State has announced that it will change fees for certain types of applications. These fee changes will take effect on September 12, 2014. The most important changes include a...
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President Obama’s Executive Order
President Obama’s Executive Action announced on November 20, 2014 aims to make a number of changes to the current immigration system. The Executive Action will help secure the border and crack down...
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No More U-Visas for the 2015 Fiscal Year!
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has already approved the statutory maximum of 10,000 petitions for U-1 Nonimmigrant Status (U-Visas) for the 2015 fiscal year that began on...
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It is H-1B Season! Do Not Delay! The Deadline to File is April 1, 2015
Do you have a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent? Will you be working in a specialty occupation? Will you be earning a wage? The H-1B visa has an annual numerical limit, or cap, of 65,000 visas each...
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