Posted on June 11, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Fifth Circuit held that the BIA erred both in requiring the asylum petitioner to prove past persecution to establish a claim based on a well-founded fear of future persecution and in recharacterizing the petitioner’s claimed social group.
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Posted on June 11, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The New York Times reports that effective August 9, 2018, the Trump administration plans to crack down on international students and visitors who overstay their visas, stoking fears in the higher education community that President Trump’s aggressive immigration policies will hinder university efforts to attract the brightest minds from overseas.
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Posted on June 11, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Fourth Circuit denied the petition for review, holding that an individual subject to a reinstated order of removal may not apply for asylum, even when the factual basis for the asylum claim did not exist prior to the original removal.1:22 AM
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Posted on June 6, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DHS announced that it is proposing a rule to end the International Entrepreneur Parole Program, which allowed certain foreign entrepreneurs to be considered for parole to temporarily come to the United States to develop and build start-up businesses. An advance copy of the proposed rule is currently available and comments will be accepted for 30 days after the publication of the proposed rule in the Federal Register on May 29, 2018.
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Posted on June 6, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DHS’s announcementthat an additional 15,000 H-2B visas will be available for the remainder of FY2018. An advance copy of the temporary rule increasing the H-2B cap has been made available to the public. The temporary rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register this Thursday, May 31, 2018.
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Posted on June 6, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Ninth Circuit held that the petitioner’s complaints of poor memory, without evidence of an inability to understand the nature and object of the proceedings, were insufficient to show mental incompetency.
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Posted on June 6, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
In March 2018, USCIS redesigned how it displays and calculates its processing times. Recently, USCIS published the national average processing times for select forms for FY2014 through FY2018, as of January 2018. These processing times are based on the age of the workload that USCIS has awaiting adjudication (pending cases) and combines data from all the USCIS offices.
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Posted on June 6, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS announced the launch of its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Immigration Records SysTem (FIRST), which will eventually allow users to submit, manage, and receive FOIA requests entirely online.
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Posted on June 6, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DOL’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) published Form ETA-9142-B-CAA and its instructions in support of the DHS/DOL temporary rule increasing the FY2018 numerical limitation for the H-2B program, which was published today and is effective immediately
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Posted on June 6, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The new policies “systematically deprive people coming to the United States of due process and the opportunity to apply for legal relief to which they may be entitled under law.”
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