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• "Derivative Citizenship" under former INA §321(a)
• $55 million Visa Fraud Conspiracy
• 18-month Extension of TPS for Somalia
• 19 Foreign Nationals in Victoria -TX
• 2010 USCIS Fee Schedule
• 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Naturalization Ceremonies
• 2011 State of the Union Address
• 212(c)
• 212(c) Waiver Application
• 212(k) relief
• 23 foreign nationals
• 23 new Immigration Judges
• 245(i)
• 25 months in prison for unlawfully returning to the U.S. after being deported
• 3 years in prison for concealing undocumented employees and mail fraud
• 3/10 year bar
• 32 arrested from Atlanta by FOT
• 39 Filipino nationals
• 3rd Preference Professionals
• 55 U.S. Military
• 75 FN with criminal records in VA and DC
• Abandonment
• ABC Settlement Agreement
• Adjustment of Status
• Administrative Appeals Office (AAO)
• Administrative Relief
• Adopted Child
• Adopting the approach of the Second – Third and Fifth Circuits
• Adoption
• Advance Parole
• Advanced degree cap-exempt petitions
• Affidavit of Support
• Aged-out
• Aggravated Felonies
• Aggravated felony crime of violence
• Agricultural Workers
• Alien unlawfully returning to the U.S.
• Alien's removal hearing
• alien's conviction
• Alien's smuggling
• All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF)
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Anti-Drug Abuse Act (ADAA)
• Antique Firearm
• Appeal
• Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility
• Application of Compean
• Application to Preserve Residence for Naturalization
• Applications for Withholding of Removal
• Appointment of Juan Osuna as Acting Director for the EOIR
• Approved I-130
• Approved Schools
• Arizona Immigration Law
• Arizona Law
• Arizona's immigration legislation
• Arkansas Restaurant Owner
• asylum
• Asylum Application
• Attorney Change of Address
• Attorney's Failure to meet deadlines
• Audit Notification letter
• “E-Verify Connection” a USCIS e-newsletter
• §212(c) Relief
• B-2 Visitor Visa Packet
• B1 Visa
• B1/B2 Visas
• Backlog Reduction
• BALCA remanded the case for certification
• bankruptcy
• Battered Spouse
• Battery Conviction
• best deportation attorney
• best deportation lawyer
• Beta-testing VIBE
• Bi-partisan DREAM Act
• BIA
• BIA Pro Bono Project
• Biometric Verification
• Blanket L-1 fees are collected at the Embassy or Consulate
• Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA)
• bond
• Bonded out
• Brazilian man
• Caddo and St. Tammany parishes in LA
• California Service Center (CSC)
• Calls for “placement” of an SWA job order
• Canada-U.S. Action Plan
• Cancellation of Removal
• Case Denied
• Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC)
• CBP – Customs & Border Protection
• CBP Officers in an unprofessional behavior or illegal conduct
• CCA
• Central Ohio
• Certified Specialist in Immigration Law
• Certifying Officer
• Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
• Change of Status
• Charges against the president of a furniture manufacturing business
• Charlie Oppenheim of the DOS Visa Office
• Child Citizenship Act
• Children born out of wedlock
• CIS Ombudsman
• CIS Ombudsman Quarterly Update for January 2011
• Citizen of the Dominican Republic
• Citizenship
• Citizenship & Immigration Data Repository (CIDR)
• Citizenship and Immigration Data Repository System
• Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
• Ciudad Juarez Consulate
• Civil Liberties Restoration Act (CLRA)
• Coast Guard personnel
• Combat Human Trafficking
• Comprehensive Immigration Reform
• Conditional LPR
• Conditional Parole
• Conditional parolee not eligible for adjustment of status
• Congress
• Congressional Research Service (CRS)
• Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on Human Trafficking
• Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
• Consular Lookout and Support System (CLASS)
• Consular Notification
• Consular Report of Birth Abroad
• Consular Services
• controlled substance
• Convention Against Torture (CAT)
• conviction
• Conviction for assault with a deadly weapon
• Conviction for false claim of citizenship
• Corrupt Immigration Officials
• Couple from Egypt
• Credibility of Remand
• Crimes of Moral Turpitude
• criminal attorney
• Criminal Charges
• Criminal charges for Employers knowingly hiring undocumented immigrants
• Criminal Laws and Procedures
• Criminal Proceedings
• Criminal statutes
• CSC Liaison
• CSC updated Management Organization Chart
• cspa
• CSS
• Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• Deadline on the RFE
• Death of Mexican national while in ICE custody
• Decision on Review of Sua Sponte Reopening
• Decision to deny administrative closure
• Defense Reauthorization Bill
• Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)
• denial
• Denial of Citizenship
• Denial of Indonesian Asylum Claim
• Denial of Unsigned ETA 9089
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Department of Human and Health Services (HHS
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Department of Labor (DOL)
• Department of State (DOS)
• Departure Bar
• Deportation
• deportation attorney
• deportation lawyer
• deportation process
• Derivative Citizenship
• Designated School Officials (DSO)
• Detention
• DHS advance copy of a notice on the identification of foreign countriesin the H-2A and the H-2B nonimmigrant worker programs
• DHS has Sole Authority on Naturalization Application
• DHS Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
• Disciplinary Actions
• Discretionary Waiver Authority
• Distribution of more than $2.3 million to state and local law enforcement agencies in New York
• Diversity Lottery (DV)
• DOJ Office of Immigration Litigation
• Domestic Violence
• DOS Travel Warning
• DREAM Act
• Drug Conviction
• Drug Trafficker
• Drug Trafficking
• DS-160
• DS–230
• DS–260
• E-2 Visa Applications
• E-Verify “Self Check”
• E-Verify Program Data Collection
• E-Verify Program for Employers
• E1/E2 Visas
• EB's Categories
• EB-1
• EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program
• EB-5 Investment Visa
• Eight year prison sentence for Robert Fred Mejia for conspiring to impersonate an ICE officer
• El Salvador
• Eleventh Circuit
• Eligibility of a Battered or Abused Parent
• Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance
• Employee Referral Program (ERP)
• Employee Referral Programs
• Employer-Employee/Third-Party
• Employer’s mailing address could have confused the U.S. Postal Service
• Employment
• Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
• Employment Compliance Inspection Center (ECIC) in Crystal City-VA
• Employment Discrimination
• Enhanced Tribal Card (ETC)
• EOIR
• EOIR has taken disciplinary action against 16 attorneys for violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct
• Essential Workers
• Establish lack of actual notice
• Exchange Visitor (J-1)
• Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
• Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR)
• Expatriate
• Expatriation Interviews
• Expidited Removal
• Extension of validity of Form DS-117
• Extreme Hardship
• F-1 Visa
• F2 Visa
• Facing criminal charges or deportation as a result of Operation Community Shield
• Failure to Appear
• Failure to register as a sex offender
• False Representation of Citizenship
• False statements on naturalization forms
• Falun Gong Practitioner
• Family Petition
• Family planning claim
• Family Unity
• Family-based Albanian Social Group Claim
• Farm Labor System
• February 2011 Visa Bulletin
• Federal Lawsuit
• Felony
• Fiancee
• Fiancee Visa
• Field Offices
• Field Offices in Atlanta – GA and Memphis – TN
• Field Offices in Charlotte – NC
• Field offices in CT will be closed on Wednesday -1/12/11
• Field Offices in Fort Smith – AR
• Final J-1 rule for Training and Intern Programs
• Final Order of Removal
• find US Immigration Attorney
• First Immigration Judge to join EOIR in 2011
• FOIA
• FOIA Request
• For purposes of rescinding an in absentia order
• Foreign Affairs Manual
• Foreign Convictions
• Foreign Nationals/Citizens
• Foreign-born population residing in the U.S.
• Form 71-022
• Form DS-156E
• Form DS-2019 – Certificate of Eligibility for Exchange Visitor (J-1) Status
• Form ETA-9033
• Form G-28
• Form G-646
• Form I-129 Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker
• Form I-129F
• Form I-129S
• Form I-130
• Form I-131 for a refugee travel document
• Form I-140
• Form I-140 – Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker
• Form I-212
• Form I-290B
• Form I-352
• Form I-352 Immigration Bond
• Form I-485
• Form I-526
• Form I-539
• Form I-566
• Form I-601
• Form I-698
• Form I-765
• Form I-817
• Form I-824
• Form I-864
• Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification)
• Form I-9 document
• Form M-767 – Important Information for New Citizens
• Form N-470
• Form N-644
• Former Guatemalan special forces soldier
• Forms I-526 and I-829 Petitions
• Forms of Relief in a Removal Hearing
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fraud
• Fraudulent Marriages
• Frivolous Application for Asylum
• Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program
• FY2011
• FY2011 cap for H-1B petition has been reached
• FY2011 cap-subject H-1B petitions
• G-28 Requirements
• GAO report for new H-1B workers
• Gender Change
• Getting married
• Global Entry Kiosks
• Global Entry Trusted Traveler Program
• Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Grandfathered for 245(i)
• Grant Stay of Voluntary Departure
• Green Card
• green card through marriage
• grounds for deportation
• Grounds of Inadmissibility
• Guidance for Advertising
• Guidance for L visa Adjudications
• Guidance on I-9
• Guidance on the approval of petitions and applications after the death of the qualifying relative
• Guilty plea in a criminal case
• H Petitioner
• H-1B
• H-1B Cap Count for FY2011
• H-1B Cap for FY2011
• H-1B petitions and Advanced Degree Cap
• H-1B Specialty
• H-1B Visa Attorney
• H-1B Visa Program
• H-2A and the H-2B Nonimmigrant Worker Programs
• H-2A back pay/civil penalty case
• H-2B
• H-2B Cap Count for FY2011
• H-3 Training Visa
• H-4 Applicant
• Habeas Corpus
• Haiti Human Trafficking
• Haitian F-1 Students
• Haitian Nationals
• Haitian Orphans
• Haitians Detainees
• hardship
• Health Care Workers
• Help HAITI Act of 2010
• Hiring unauthorized foreign workers
• Homeland Security Advisory Council
• Hoover Inc
• House Subcommittee Hearing on Immigration
• Human Rights Watch (HRW)
• Human Trafficking Victims
• humanitarian parole
• I-130
• I-131 Advance Parole
• I-140
• I-290 Forms
• I-485
• I-526
• I-551 stamp
• I-600 Forms
• I-797 Receipt Notice
• I-9
• I-9 Guidance
• I-90
• I-94
• ICE
• ICE announces that two VA business owners were sentenced for hiring and harboring undocumented individuals
• ICE Custody
• ICE Electronic Surveillance System (ELSUR)
• ICE has activated the Secure Communities in 969 jurisdictions across 37 States
• ICE Mutual Agreement
• IFCO Systems North America
• Illegal entry
• IMAGE Program
• Immigrant Visa
• Immigrant Visa Retrogression
• Immigration
• Immigration Attorney
• Immigration Benefits Background Check Systems (IBBCS)
• Immigration Bond
• Immigration Consultant Fraud
• Immigration Court
• Immigration Court Practice Manual
• Immigration Court Proceedings
• Immigration Crimes
• Immigration Debates
• Immigration Judges
• Immigration Law
• Immigration Lawyer
• Immigration Procecutions
• immigration provisions
• Immigration Reform
• Immigration Reform Bills
• INA §216(c)(4)
• INA §242(a)(2)(B)(ii)
• INA §245(a)
• Increased fees for certain H-1B and L-1 petitions
• India EB-2 Category
• Indiana Chinese restaurant owner
• InfoPass
• INS Deportation
• International Exchange Center
• International Students in the U.S.
• Interstate Worldwide Relocation Services is now a member of the IMAGE program
• J-1
• Jamaican national in ICE custody passed away
• January 2011 Migration Policy Institute report
• Judge David H. PARUCH
• K-1 Visa Petition
• K-2 Visa
• K-3
• L Visas
• L-1 Visa
• L-1B Provisions
• Labor Certification
• Labor Certification on the Government Error queue
• Labor Contracting Service
• Lack of good moral character
• Late filing of Petitioner’s application
• Lawsuit
• Lawyers have a Duty to Investigate all Grounds for Asylum
• LCA
• Legal
• Legal Requirements for signatures on all petitions and applications
• Letter of Explanation
• Licking County – Ohio
• LIFE Act
• lockboxsupport@dhs.gov
• los angeles deportation attorney
• los angeles deportation lawyer
• los angeles immigration attorney
• los angeles immigration lawyer
• LPR
• LULAC
• M-1 Vocational Student Visa
• Making a false application for a U.S. passport
• Marriage Brokers
• Marriage Fraud Scheme
• Marriage Petition
• Material Support to the All India Sikh Students Federation-Bittu Faction (AISSF-Bittu)
• Members of the National Guard to Naturalize
• Mexico National Migration
• Mexico's immigration
• Migrant Seasonal and Agricultural Worker Protection Act
• Military Members and Spouses
• Military Naturalization
• Military Service Members
• minor child
• Misdemeanor false imprisonment in violation of CA Penal Code §236
• moral turpitude
• Motion to Reopen (MTR)
• Motion to Reopen under SORIANO
• Motion to Reopen with the BIA
• MTR
• MTR in absentia
• Multinational Manager
• Multiple Field Office closings on 1/12/11 due to inclement weather
• Myths on Birthright Citizenship
• NAFTA
• National Benefits Center (NBC)
• National Electronic Job Registry
• National Farm Worker
• National Interest Waiver
• National Visa Center (NVC)
• Naturalization
• Nebraska Service Center (NSC)
• Nevada
• New Biometric Information
• New border security fee for certain H-1B and L-1 Petitions
• New Business Owner
• New Jersey
• New on-line appointment system for Consulates in Mexico
• New Orlando Immigration Court
• New Orleans area
• New Website for Customer Services
• New York Penal Law §263.05
• Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA)
• Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
• Non LPR
• Nonimmigrant Visa
• North Carolina counties
• Notice of Filing (NOF)
• Notice of Filing (NOF) Wage Deficiency
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
• Notice to Appear (NTA)
• Nunc Pro Tunc Application
• Nurses
• NY Penal Law § 221.40
• O-1 Visa
• Office of Administrative Appeals (AAO)
• Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL)
• Office of Special Counsel (OSC)
• Officer of Tri-Valley University
• Online Filing
• Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum (OPPM)
• Organizational Chart for the Texas Service Center
• Original Signatures
• Orphan
• Out of Wedlock children
• Overseas filings of Form I-130
• P-1 Visa
• Panamanian national in ICE custody passed away
• Pardon
• Paroled Haitian Orphans
• Participants of the NEXUS and SENTRI
• Partnership Agreement
• Passport validity rules for travelers
• Past Persecution
• Payment Options at USCIS Domestic Offices
• PERM
• PERM and iCERT both have been restored at this time
• Permanent Labor Certification Program
• Permission to Reenter
• Petition for Review
• Petitioner
• Petitioner ineligible for AOS for presenting US Birth Certificate and continuous Physical Presenc
• Petitioner’s CAT claim
• Petitioners’ Motion to Remand denied
• Placement Program
• Plea Guilty to a Crime
• Policy Review
• Political Asylum
• Possession of Marijuana and Weapons
• Post-conclusion Voluntary Departure
• Pre-ADAA Convictions
• Pre-trial diversion
• President Obama’s plan to fix our broken Immigration System
• Prevailing Wage
• Prima Facie Determination
• Privacy Act
• Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
• Pro Bono Immigration Attorney
• Professional Conduct for Practitioners
• Professional Conduct for Practitioners: Rules-Procedures-Representations and Appearances
• Professors or Researchers
• Public Charge
• Public Law 111-230
• Puerto Rican Birth Certificates
• Puerto Rico birth certificates
• Purpose of obtaining private employment
• Q-1 Visa
• Qualified Investment
• Qualified Mexican National
• Qualifies as a “conviction” under INA §101(a)(48)
• Qualifying Relatives
• R-1 Religious Visas
• Re-engineer the H-2B Labor Certification Process
• Re-entry Permit
• REAL ID Act
• Rebut Past Persecution
• refugee
• Refugee and Asylee follow-to-Join cases
• Refugees and Migration
• Registered Nurse
• Registered Sex Offenders
• Registry
• Reinstatement of Removal
• Relief under 212(c) in Removal or Deportation Hearings
• Religious Worker I-360
• Removable Offenses
• Removal of the Conditional Residence
• Removal or Deportation Hearings
• Removal Proceedings
• Removal statistics
• Reopening an in absentia order
• Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
• REPAT Program
• Repatriation
• Request for an Individual Fee Waiver
• Request for Evidence (RFE)
• Request on Reunification Procedures for Unaccompanied Alien Children
• requests to expedite adjudication of Form I-601
• Res Judicata
• Reschedule Interview
• Resident Status
• Retrogression
• Review the denial of Voluntary Departure
• Revised M-274 – Handbook for Employers
• Revocation
• Robbery under CA Penal Code §211 is a crime involving moral turpitude
• Rome District Chapter
• Rules of Professional Conduct
• Ryt-way Industries LLC is the first MN business to become a member of the IMAGE Program
• S-1 Witness Visas
• Sacramento County is one of 41 California jurisdictions
• Salvadorans eligible to re-register for TPS
• Schedules of Fees
• Secretary Napolitano’s speech highlighted efforts to secure the Southwest border
• Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
• Section 329 of the INA
• Secure Communities
• Secure Communities in Anne Arundel County – Maryland
• Secure Communities in Carroll County – Maryland
• Secure Communities in Eight (8) Nebraska Jurisdictions
• Secure Communities in Licking County – Ohio
• Secure Communities in Sacramento County – CA
• Secure Communities is now activated in four Illinois counties
• Secure Communities is now activated in Pettis County – Missouri
• Secure Communities is now activated in Saline County – Kansas
• Security Concerns
• Sedgwick County-Kansas
• Self-Petitioning
• Self-Petitioning – Battered Spouse
• Senate
• Sensitive Security Information (SSI)
• Service Centers
• Settlement with a North Carolina Company
• Settlement with an Oregon Company
• SEVIS
• SEVP
• SEVP Approved Schools
• Sexual Abuse of a Minor
• Sibling Petition
• Single crime involving Moral Turpitude
• Skilled Workers
• Slight tardiness to one’s hearing
• Source of the children’s support in the event of Petitioner’s deportation
• special Immigrant
• Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) applicants
• Special Immigrant Juveniles
• Special Immigrant Visas for 4th Preference Employment-Based Broadcasters
• Special Registration (Selective Services)
• Specialized Knowledge
• Specialty Occupation
• Sponsorship
• Spouse petition
• Stakeholders meeting on Form I-9
• State Workforce Authority (SWA)
• Stepchild
• Stepparent
• Strategic Plan
• Strengthening the Legal Immigration System
• Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)
• Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)
• Student Visa
• Supreme court
• T-Visa
• Teleconference
• Teleconference on the Help Haiti Act of 2010
• Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
• Temporary Workers
• Termination of Petitioner’s Asylum Status
• Terrorism
• Texas
• Texas Service Center (TSC)
• Texas Truck Driver re-sentenced for death of 19 victims
• The “offered wage” is the wage offered to the alien at the time the ETA 9089 is filed
• The court dismissed Petitioner’s claim as administratively unexhausted
• Third Country National (TCN)
• Three (3) Member Panel
• Three-year H-1B extension for petitions
• Timing Requirements for Recruitment
• TN
• To help prevent the hiring of unauthorized employees
• Tourist Visa
• TRAC
• Trafficking in Persons
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)
• Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
• Travel Documents
• Travel Warning for Egypt
• Treaty-Investor Country
• Tyson Foods Inc. is now a member of the IMAGE Program
• U Nonimmigrant Status Certification
• U Visa
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• U.S. citizen tribal members
• U.S. Citizens
• U.S. citizens traveling to and living in Mexico about security
• U.S. Citizenship
• U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of CA
• U.S. Embassy in Cairo
• U.S. Embassy in London
• U.S. Embassy in Tel-Aviv
• U.S. Embassy London remind members that the Border Security Fee now in effect for certain H-1B and L-1 cases
• U.S. Employers filing H-1B Petitions
• U.S. Passport book or Passport card
• U.S. passports
• U.S. Refugee Program
• U.S. Refugee Resettlement Assistance
• U.S. Sponsorship
• Uncategorized
• Unconstitutional
• Under former INA §242B
• Undocumented Employees
• Undocumented workers
• Unlawful discrimination against a LPR
• unlawful presence
• Unlawfully firing and refusing to rehire a LPR
• Unskilled Workers
• Updated FY2011 H-2B Cap Count
• US Embassy in Mexico City on the new Nonimmigrant Visa Procedures
• US-Cuba Migration Accords Implementation
• US-VISIT System
• USCIS
• USCIS Chicago Lockbox facility
• USCIS Dallas Lockbox
• USCIS Fee Schedule
• USCIS Field Offices
• USCIS has discretion to adjust the status of immediate relative
• USCIS inventory of Employment-based AOS cases pending at the Service Centers and Field Offices
• USCIS Lockbox Facilities
• USCIS memorandum on the adjudication of EB-5 Regional Center
• USCIS notice for naturalization civics tests answers will change
• USCIS provides e-mail addresses for inquiries involving lockbox-filed forms
• USCIS San Diego Chapter Liaison Minutes
• Utah "Blacklist"
• Utah Code Ann. §58-37-8(2)(a)(i) and (4)(a)(ix)
• V VISA
• vacate conviction
• Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE)
• VAWA
• Verification Information System (VIS)
• Vermont Service Center (VSC)
• Violation of Wisconsin Statute §301.45(2)(a)
• Visa
• Visa Bulletin for December 2010
• Visa Fraud
• Visa retrogression for various immigrant visa categories
• Visa Waiver Program
• Visa Waiver Program (VWP)
• Voluntary Departure
• VSC Processing Time
• waiver
• Waiver for Possession of Marijuana in a Drug Free Zone
• Waivers of Inadmissibility
• WHD Administrator
• Withdrawing a Sponsorship
• withholding of removal
• Work Visa
• Wrong Service Center or Lockbox