Parole-in-Place — The Immigration PIPsqueak That Could Help Solve the Biggest...
The last few weeks have witnessed severe shocks to the health care system known as Obamacare. The President has issued mea culpas for the not-ready-for-prime-time web site, Health.gov, and for his...
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E-Verify’s New Lock: Like It or Not, This is a Big Deal!
At around 3:00 eastern time on Monday, my (obnoxiously self-important) inbox exploded. Ping! Ping! Ping! it said. Look at me! I’m bringing you important messages about stuff! Ping! Ping! Ping!...
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Immigration Dreaming in California — Assembly Bill 263 Will Bring Nightmares...
As a transplant from Michigan who has thrived in California since settling here in 1982, I’ve come to expect sneering and cynicism heaped upon this lovely, blessed state. The foregoing quotes are of...
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Immigration Triangulation — Another Dysfunctional Government Policy
The dictionary defines the adjective, “passive-aggressive,” as “a type of behavior or personality characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and an avoidance of direct...
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Immigration Reform Must Redress the Current Law’s Gender Biases
As 2013 comes to a close, we are no closer to comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) than we were when a newly elected President Obama optimistically promised that such reform would occur during his...
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The 2013 Nation of Immigrators Awards – The IMMIs Are Announced
Hindsight, the armchair pundits say, is 20-20. The year 2013 has proven them wrong. The end-of-year’s rear-view mirror onto the world of U.S. immigration shows impenetrable fog. Unsurprisingly, as...
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Tips from an Immigration Insider: How to Excel at a U.S. Visa Interview
Ellis Island, which opened as an immigration processing post on January 1st 122 years ago, symbolizes for many Americans of immigrant descent the place where would-be entrants to the U.S. learned...
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Half a Loaf Immigration Reform
At the beach when the tide is going out, the waves recede and it seems that nothing is happening in the sea. But the truth is that the great swells are gathering strength beneath the waters, building...
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Immigration Voices: Egads! I-9 Questions That Keep Me Up at Night
After every social interaction in which I am a participant, I rehash the event to determine how many idiotic and/or offensive things I did and/or said. This rule applies to parties, meals, and even...
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Why Are Immigration Lawyers So Happy?
According to statistics provided to CNN by the Centers for Disease Control, among professionals in the United States lawyers rank fourth in suicides (exceeded in misery only by dentists, pharmacists...
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Immigration Voices: “What the ‘L’ Is Going On with USCIS?”
Bloggers Note: Today’s guest column comes from noted Atlanta-based business immigration lawyer, Eileen M.G. Scofield, who addresses a subject covered often before on NationOfImmigrators, the...
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EB-5 Immigration Lawyers Wear Too Many Hats
The EB-5 employment-creation immigrant investor visa category continues to transcend its chutes-and-ladders early history. This 24-year-old program — like many young adults of the same era — seems at...
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Senator’s Saucy Request Roils EB-5 Regional Centers
Imagine you’re the general counsel of Coca Cola (or of any other company that takes great pains to safeguard the internal secrets that endow the organization with competitive advantages over other...
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Waiting in the Wings: a New Leader at the Immigration Helm
The dysfunctional immigration world continues to spin dangerously out of control. Do-nothing House Republicans (and five pusillanimous Democrats) commit political seppuku with the passage of the...
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USCIS Gets an EB-5 Earful at Immigration Listening Session
On April 23, 2014, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — the component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that administers the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program — held an...
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L-1 Petitioners Beware: USCIS Confirms Plans to Expand Fraud Detection and...
History is about to repeat itself. Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS), a directorate of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), is set to embark on another foray of...
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Immigration Voices: Dr. No Versus the League of Extraordinary Aliens
Dear Immigration Colleagues: On my doctor’s advice, I am considering changing careers. Like perhaps many of you, helping clients overcome unreasoned decisions and ludicrous requests for evidence year...
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Why Eric Cantor’s Defeat Does Not Signal the Death of Immigration Reform
The usual voices said trite things when a sliver of Richmond, Virginia Republican primary voters last Tuesday rejected Eric Cantor’s bid to continue as Majority Whip in the House of Representatives....
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Immigration Voices: Baring My Teeth at I-9 Enforcement Inequalities
I admit it. I know more about quidditch than about soccer. The World Cup holds little interest for me, aside from the occasional glimpse of impressive Chilean, French, or Honduran abs[1]. (And,...
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The “When” of Immigration
In everyday English, “when” clearly “connote[s] immediacy.” . . . ’”when’ … can be read, on the one hand, to refer to ‘action or activity occurring ‘at the time that’ or ‘as soon as’ other action has...
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