Supreme Court: Padilla Did Not Create New Rule: No Retroactive Application to Cases on Collateral Review On February 20, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Chaidez v. United States. The majority of the Court held that the decision in Padilla... Read More

Administration Seeks More Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan Nationals | The Obama administration is urging Congress to expand the number of special immigrant visas available to Afghan nationals who assisted the U.S. government and to do so before... Read More

On this edition, Dan Kowalski, editor of Matthew Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, talks with Stephen Yale-Loehr and Stanley Mailman, authors of the 21-volume Immigration Law and Procedure. They reflect on their time with the treatise and how it has... Read More

TRO Granted in H-2B Lawsuit A temporary restraining order was issued, preventing the implementation of the Department of Labor's Final Wage Rule titled "Wage Methodology for the Temporary Non-Agricultural Employment H-2B Program" and... Read More

By Dan Berger and Stephen Yale-Loehr The Obama administration's program for young people who came to the United States as children and lack a valid immigration status (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) has sparked extensive debate, advice... Read More

Nine years after Congress passed a law intended to help certain "stranded" EB-5 immigrant investors, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has finally proposed a rule. Because of USCIS's long delay in publishing the rule, however... Read More