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PERM and Labor Certification Procedure must be exact

BALCA affirmed the denial of certification where the employer listed the name of the president of the company, but not name of the employer, on the Notice of Filing (NOF). Rejecting the employer’s harmless error argument, BALCA stated that, without the employer’s name in the NOF, “a person attempting to provide information to the Certifying Officer (CO) might not be able to inform the CO of the name of the employer as it appeared on the application.”

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New Visa Bulletin charts

USCIS announced that, approximately one week after DOS releases the Visa Bulletin each month, it will post an announcement on its website to inform adjustment of status applicants whether they can rely on the “filing dates” chart or the “final action dates” chart in the Visa Bulletin to determine when they can file their applications.

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Be sure to meet your burden when applying for Cancellation of Removal

The First Circuit upheld the Board of Immigration Appeals, finding that the petitioner was not eligible for cancellation of removal, because he had failed to meet his burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that his 2006 assault conviction was not a “crime of domestic violence.”

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DHS to propose new STEM extension rule

DHS is proposing to amend its F-1 nonimmigrant student visa regulations on optional practical training (OPT) to allow certain F-1 STEM students who have elected to pursue 12 months of OPT in the United States to extend the OPT period by 24 months. An advance copy of the proposed rule is now available. The proposed rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on October 19, 2015, and comments will be due 30 days after its publication. On August 12, 2015, the District Court for the District of Columbia vacated the2008 STEM OPT extension rule, but stayed the vacatur until February 12, 2016, to allow DHS the opportunity to reissue the rule with proper notice and comment

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The Sixth Circuit interpreted INA §240 as requiring that personal service be made upon a noncitizen whenever practicable, and held that personal service to a represented noncitizen’s counsel may, in certain cases, constitute personal service to the noncitizen. The court upheld the Board of Immigration Appeals, finding that the respondent, who was ordered removed in absentia after failing to appear at a master calendar hearing in his removal proceedings, had received sufficient notice under the INA, where the respondent’s counsel was personally served with written notice of the hearing on the day that he appeared with the respondent in immigration court

Removal proceedings

Order of removal

Removal or deportation hearings

Cancellation of removal

The court upheld USCIS’s finding that the area of extraordinary ability defined by the plaintiff was gymnastics coaching, not gymnastics, and that it was reasonable to find evidence that the beneficiary won an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics insufficient.

The EB-1 

EB-1 Petition

EB-1 C

Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner

BALCA ordered that certification be granted, concluding that individuals “matched” by a State Workforce Agency (SWA) to a job order are not considered applicants for the PERM position because they have not affirmatively applied for the job.

BALCA reverses denial due to due process

BALCA denial

BALCA remanded the case for certification

BALCA affirms denial based on lack of proof of job order

DOL posted an alert stating that on September 1, 2015, an update to the PERM case management system caused an unexpected programming glitch to occur, as a result of which, certain information could not be entered on the form. Until the revisions become operational, if you cannot complete and file an ETA Form 9089 online, you should mail in the application to the Atlanta National Processing Center.

PERM

Denial of PERM

Covid 19 and PERM

PERM: The first process in employment based petitions

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a notice that the Republic of Yemen has been designated for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months, effective today through March 3, 2017, due to an ongoing armed conflict within the country. This designation allows eligible Yemeni nationals (and immigrants having no nationality who last habitually resided in Yemen) who have continuously resided in and been continuously physically present in the United States since September 3, 2015, to be granted TPS. The 180-day registration period ends on March 1, 2016.

Extension of TPS

TPS applicants

USCIS TPS

Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner

The Seventh Circuit reversed the summary judgment in favor of USCIS and remanded, holding that USCIS failed to conduct an adequate search in response to the plaintiff’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which sought “all documents reflecting statistics” about H-1B visa applications. USCIS responded to the request by providing a single data table it had created, later telling the plaintiff that more records would “only create additional confusion.”

ICE violated FOIA

FOIA request

Online FOIA

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