Portillo v. DHS "Gerardo A. Portillo petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming his order of removal and denying his application for adjustment...
State Department, May 30, 2023 "Document Submission to KCC suspended for DV-2024 and onward. Effective for the Diversity Visa (DV) program for fiscal year 2024 (DV-2024) and onward, selectees...
In this document , provided by a "veteran immigration practitioner," ICE claims that its attorneys need not be present in every case in Immigration Court. Read more at PWS's latest post ...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 06/01/2023 "This final rule (TFR) temporarily amends Department of State (Department) regulations to provide that Afghan nationals...
David L. Cleveland, May 29, 2023 "US-CIS, in response to a FOIA lawsuit by the Louise Trauma Center, released 109 pages of training materials, dated December 2019, that it gave to its asylum officers...
Jonathan Moore writes: "David Gluckman and I wanted to pass along two additional documents that were produced in the Gluckman v. DOL PERM FOIA litigation (prior posts here and here). Specifically, these two documents are directives from November 2009 from William Carlson, Administrator of the Office of Foreign Labor Certification. The first directive addresses PERMs for finite employment opportunities. The second directive addresses acceptable documentation to establish business necessity. The second document may be particularly relevant for practitioners given that DOL appears to have recently changed its template audit notification letter to request business necessity documentation."