Call On Texas Senate: Oppose Anti-Immigrant Bill HB 12
The anti-immigrant HB 12 was passed by the Texas House. With your help we CAN stop it in the Senate. Final Senate Action in the Next 2 Weeks
The anti-immigrant HB 12 was passed by the Texas House. With your help we CAN stop it in the Senate. Final Senate Action in the Next 2 Weeks
In a recent matter (Matter of Paul Wilson Dorman, 25 I&N Dec 485, AG, Apr. 26, 2011), Attorney General Holder ordered the BIA to opine on the constitutionality of the Defense Of Marriage Act in a cancellation of removal case. Since same-sex marriage is now recognized in a number of foreign jurisdictions (in addition to several states in the US), this issue could potentially affect a large number of same-sex couples applying for immigration visas.
Oops!!!! In embarrassing fashion, the U.S. State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs announced that all results for last year’s diversity visa program for DV-2012 were incorrect.
Osama bin Laden’s death has earned some political capital for President Obama- and now, it looks like he’s going to spend a little bit of it on immigration reform.
“President Obama heads to El Paso Texas to speak out on what the White House calls the nation’s ‘broken immigration system.’
The Department of Labor announced the availability of approximately $240 million in funds for an H-1B Technical Skills Training Grants program. This grant program is designed to provide education, training, and job placement assistance in the occupations and industries for which employers are using H-1B visas to hire foreign workers, and the related activities necessary to support such training. The Department will make awards to two types of training grants: at least $150 million will be awarded to grantees that provide On-the-Job Training (OJT) to all participants and the remainder will be awarded to those that use other training strategies.
Today, April 28, 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it is eliminating redundant programs by removing the following countries from, and relieving nonimmigrant nationals or citizens of the following countries from compliance with, the special registration procedures under the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS): Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Over the past six years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has implemented several new automated systems that capture arrival and exit information on nonimmigrant travelers to the United States, and DHS has determined that recapturing this data manually when a nonimmigrant is seeking admission to the United States is redundant and no longer provides any increase in security. DHS, therefore, has determined that it is no longer necessary to subject nationals from these countries to special registration procedures, and this notice deletes all currently designated countries from NSEERS compliance.
