Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, May 14, 2024 "In “What if the Job Has Changed Since the Labor Certification Was Approved Many Years Ag o” we discussed strategies for noncitizen workers...
Blanford v. USCIS "Because of a consular officer’s suspicions over a $900 payment, two children have spent the last seven years in a Liberian orphanage instead of with their adoptive parents...
EOIR, May 10, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the appointment of 20 immigration judges—18 immigration judges who joined courts in California, Georgia...
DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO TERMINATE THE FLORES SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AS TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES News coverage here and here .
DHS, May 9, 2024 "This memorandum sets forth new policy and guidelines governing our Department’s use of classified information in immigration proceedings. It supersedes the October 4, 2004...
NIPNLG, Mar. 2023
"This practice advisory introduces and provides an overview of the eligibility requirements for VAWA cancellation. ... Publication of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG). This practice advisory is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The authors of this practice advisory are Ann Block, ILRC Senior Staff Attorney, Michelle Méndez, NIPNLG Director of Legal Resources and Training, and Rebecca Scholtz, NIPNLG Senior Staff Attorney. This practice advisory is intended for authorized legal practitioners and is not a substitute for independent legal advice provided by legal counsel familiar with a client’s case, nor is it a substitute for independent analysis of the law applicable in the practitioner’s jurisdiction. Portions of this practice advisory are adapted, with permission, from Representing Clients in Immigration Court, 6th ed. (copyright 2021 American Immigration Lawyers Association), as well as from ILRC, The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants, 8th edition (2020)."