IMMIGRATION LAW UPDATE

Uh-oh! Don’t Drop Your Guard When It Comes to U.S. Immigration Compliance!

Here’s a great article on H-1B compliance: http://www.4hoteliers.com/4hots_fshw.php?mwi=5382. Many companies — and reputable immigration attorneys (!) — don’t understand the consequences of maintaining proper public access records. …

Making Immigration Work Blog

Beware the Frosty (Fake) ICE Man

Today in Miami two men pleaded guilty to impersonating U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement officers. Read more about what these two men did. The men defrauded people by informing them “that $10 million had arrived for them from Nigeria,…

EB-5 Processing Times Update

March 31, 2014/by Michael A. Harris

In February 2014, the USCIS held its first EB-5 Stakeholder teleconference for the first time in a while. Some of the new developments announced by the USCIS are that the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Office (or IPO as it will now be known) will publish regular processing times updates for Form I-526, Form I-829, and […]

The Real Deal Quotes Michael Harris on the EB-5 Program

November 24, 2013/by Michael A. Harris

DHS Announces DOMA Immigration Rights & Benefits

July 2, 2013/by Michael A. Harris

Today the Department of Homeland Security has announced some FAQs regarding how the latest SCOTUS decision on DOMA affects federal Immigration benefits. Now U.S. citizen and lawful permanent resident petitioners can seek DOMA Immigration rights and benefits for their spouses. This is in line with what I have previously described. Here’s what the DHS has […]

What the U.S. Supreme Court’s DOMA Decision Means for Immigration Benefits

June 26, 2013/by Michael A. Harris

Today the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in U.S. vs. Windsor that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional by depriving gay, lesbian, same-sex, and LGBT couples from marrying the person that they love. The decision was authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, which he principally noted that: “The federal statute is invalid, for no […]