A lawsuit claims that the Trump administration has upended the tradition of judicial independence in the U.S. immigration system. The suit, filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Innovation Law Lab, targets President Trump and Attorney General William...
Month: December 2019
Report: White House sought to embed ICE agents at HHS
The Washington Post reports senior White House officials tried to plant Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) targeting parents and relatives of migrant children for deportation. The newspaper...
ICE officers in Texas arrested more than 40,000 people in 2019
Arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dropped by 5% during fiscal year 2019 in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. However, compared to the last year of the Obama administration, arrests in Texas are up 30%. Overall, ICE arrests in the U.S. were down 10%...
Defining marriage under immigration law
If bringing your spouse to the United States is a goal for you, you may already be working with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to obtain a green card for him or her. This must mean that you also have lawful permanent residence status or that you are a U.S....
New policy may slow ebbing H1-B successes to a trickle
You want the best workers for your company, and sometimes that means looking outside the country. H-1B visas might be the way to get the specialized employees you need to get the job done. But dwindling acceptance rates could make it harder to keep the flow of talent...
Are there benefits to filing Form I-130 online?
Applying for a visa or green card requires a lot of documents, and for a long time, applicants had to send those papers through the mail. That is starting to change. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has slowly been adding options for people to file...