At this juncture, the prospect of a comprehensive immigration reform bill is rapidly evaporating with the summer; after sweeping through the Senate with a strong majority, immigration legislation is now stalled in the House, which plans on addressing…
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Though there hasn’t been much talk of Congress taking up immigration reform this month, there have been a couple of interesting developments that tangentially involve immigration. On the one hand, the California legislature recently passed a wa…
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We had written earlier about the potential impact of the proposed Conditional Dismissal Program on alien defendants in Municipal Court. We just learned today that the Bill was signed into law by the Governor and will become effective within 120 days.…
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Time flies. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) has recently celebrated its one year anniversary already. An approved DACA application brings with it temporary protected legal status and work authorization. The requirements are…
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On August 23rd Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) released an administration policy directive entitled “Facilitating Parental Interests in the Course of Civil Immigration Enforcement Activities.” This memo serves to supplement as we…
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Immigration Reform has passed the Senate, and now it only needs to pass the House. If the last presidential election has taught us anything, it is that the Hispanic community cannot be ignored. Their numbers are growing, and with it their political p…
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Just this past June, the Justice Department announced that it had reached an agreement with Macy’s. The retail giant had been accused of conducting unfair documentary procedures during employee re-verification. While the Justice Department did…
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On June 27, 2013, Bill 3598 passed both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and if all goes well, will soon become law. The Bill essentially implements a Pre-Trial Intervention program in our state’s municipal court system, which up until now,…
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There is much excitement over Category F2A (the preference category for spouses and children under 21 of lawful permanent residents) becoming current next month-and understandably so. For quite some time now, this preference category has been approxi…
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In addition to USCIS’s implementation of the Supreme Court’s Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), an appellate judicial board has further confirmed that Section 3 of DOMA is no longer a barrier to receiving federal…
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