U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today traveled to Laredo, Texas to announce more than $47 million in fiscal year 2010 Operation Stonegarden grants for the Southwest border states. She also met with law enforcement leaders to discuss the Department’s efforts to support state, local and tribal law…
Here is the current H-1B Cap count of FY 2011: Cap Type – H-1B Regular Cap Cap Amount – 65,000 Cap Eligible Petitions – 24,800 Date of Last Count – 7/9/2010 Cap Type – H-1B Master’s Exemption Cap Amount – 20,000 Cap Eligible Petitions – 10,600 Date of Last Count…
U.S. Department of State has released the new visa bulletin for August 2010 on July 12, 2010. Here is the crux: EB-1 category is current for both Chinese and Indian nationals. EB-2 category, cut-off dates moved forward more than three months for Chinese nationals (from November 22, 2005 to March…
A great update from AILA to our anxious EB3 applicants and blog readers. Many I-140 denials came out of the Service Centers in the past few months. These denials resulted when applicants failed to properly distinguish the required qualifications between professionals and skilled workers on the new Form I-140 which…
The U.S. Department of Labor launched an online registry allowing the public to retrieve information about temporary agricultural jobs that fall under the H-2A program. The new tool was developed in compliance with regulations implemented by the department on March 15. The H-2A job registry provides a single, easily searched…
Temporary Protected Status and Expired Employment Authorization Documents One must accept a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiary’s expired Employment Authorization Document (EAD) if DHS has automatically extended its validity in a Federal Register notice. Automatically extended EADs are listed on the USCIS web site. EADs issued to TPS beneficiaries will…
USCIS has updated following on July 2, 2010 about the H-1B Cap Count Cap Type – H-1B Regular Cap Cap Amount – 65,000 Cap Eligible Petitions – 24,200 Date of Last Count – 7/2/2010 Cap Type – H-1B Master’s Exemption Cap Amount – 20,000 Cap Eligible Petitions – 10,400 Date…
In response to the query for slow down of iCert portal until July 1, 2010, OFLC has informed that they are aware about the same and working on it. Finally the iCert Portal was up and ready to work since July 2, 2010. We like to take this opportunity to…
I am writing this Blog entry from my conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington DC. In this past few days Immigration lawyers from across the nation gathered here in DC to share ideas and discuss our Immigration laws and policy. On Thursday not so far from our…
This memorandum outlines the civil immigration enforcement priorities of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they relate to the apprehension, detention, and removal of aliens. These priorities shall apply across all ICE programs and shall inform enforcement activity, detention decisions, budget requests and execution, and strategic planning. A. Priorities…
