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Immigration “Fire On the Ground” — What’s Next for the L-1B Visa?
Since 2008 American employers have been burning mad about how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has gone from fairly reasonable to highly restrictive in its interpretation of the L-1B...
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Pants On Fire Over Immigration
In the 1997 film, Liar Liar, Jim Carrey starred as Fletcher Reede, a scruples-free lawyer whose young son, Max, wishes that, for just one day, his dad would tell the truth. Max’s wish is granted....
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Tinker Bell’s Immigration Solution
Blogger’s Note: In light of President Obama’s announcement of executive actions on immigration last Thursday, this post, first published on May 7, 2010, is worth a second read. I enjoyed the...
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Worksite Harmony and the President’s Executive Actions: It’s All About...
Facing a recalcitrant House of Representatives controlled by Republicans, President Obama made an historic announcement on November 20th outlining an array of executive actions he would take to fix as...
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Immigration Voices: Coming Out of the Shadows with the U Visa
When Tanya found out that her daughter Rose was being sexually assaulted by her father, Mauricio, Tanya’s world collapsed. All these years Tanya looked at Rose’s mood swings, flashes of anger and...
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Gambling On Immigration at a Dangerous Intersection
Blogger’s Note: Today we have a dandy guest post from the ever insightful, prolific and droll, Nici Kersey. Don’t be put off by her introductory paragraphs. There’s an immigration gem awaiting — one...
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The Immigration Year in Review: The 2014 IMMI Awards
With slightly less giddy anticipation than the annual fan frenzy evoked by the Academy Awards and Golden Globes, the nation awaits another hotly competitive yearly awards ceremony. Yes, Nation of...
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Immigration On a Clean Slate: Game-Changing Proposals On Visa Modernization
Terabytes of text have already been generated in the course of extolling or excoriating President Obama for his November 20 Executive Actions on Immigration. The prolific foaming of bloviating mouths...
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Immigration Howling, Hope, Hype and Hodgepodge: USCIS’s New L-1B Memo
Social media flamed with expressions of outrage, relief and tepid optimism ever since President Obama announced on March 23, 2015 the release of long-awaited policy guidance on a key temporary worker...
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Eyes Off the Prize: White House Oblivious to Immigration Bureaucrats’ Running...
Two hundred days ago President Obama stoked the hopes of immigration advocates with his announcement of wide-ranging executive actions to try — as far as his authority would carry him — to change...
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An Immigration Opportunity Lost: USCIS Stiffens On Job Flexibility
A frisson of fear coursed through me when I learned that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) would issue new policy guidance on “job flexibility” — the statutory right of some...
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An Immigration Opportunity Lost: USCIS Stiffens On Job Flexibility
This is part of an ongoing series through the end of the year where LXBN members reflect on the biggest legal development of the past five years. Today’s comes to us from Angelo A. Paparelli, author of...
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All Checks but No Balances — the Systemic Failure to Protect EB-5 Investors
Several widely-publicized actions by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), and the inevitable litigation that has piled on in consequence, have pressure-tested the EB-5 ecosystem and found it...
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Your Days Are Numbered — Practicing Arithmophobic Immigration Law
Preferring words over numbers, I chose the practice of law. Preferring people over numbers, I forsook tax law and opted to practice immigration. How naïve of me to think that numbers could be so easily...
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Venture Capitalists and Immigration Proponents Likely Disappointed by USCIS...
The Department of Homeland Security, through its component agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has issued a proposed regulation to allow a qualified foreign citizen to gain entry...
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Soothsayings On Changes to the EB-5 Immigrant Investment Program
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” ~ Yogi Berra The talk of the nation – at least that segment interested in U.S. green card benefits available to foreign investors – is...
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The Known and Unknown Future of the EB-5 Immigrant Investment Program at...
Memes, apocrypha, obfuscation, head feints, hand-wringing, and supposition: These are the misleading and unreliable stuff of the Interweb. To a great extent, alas, they also infect the EB-5 ecospace....
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Trump Administration Should Offer Better Immigration Options for...
The pattern by now is all too familiar. With the Trump Administration fully ensconced, the rollback of President Obama’s eight-year legacy continues. This time it involves the International...
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Immigration Flippancy: USCIS Impedes Travel Abroad for No Good Reason
Deciphering the workings of the bureaucratic mind is never easy. What seems settled practice is often anything but. Abrupt abandonment of longstanding policy can happen in a nanosecond — many times...
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Targeted ICE Investigations ~ in it for the Long Haul with Record $95 Million...
[Blogger’s Note: Today’s post is by my colleague, Mahsa Aliaskari, Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s Senior Counsel. Mahsa has advised and defended businesses with up to 100,000+ nationwide employees on U.S....
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