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Individuals seeking to immigrate to the United States must normally demonstrate that they will not be a “public charge”-that is, that they will not become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence (usually in the form of publi… Read More

Starting next month (December 5, 2017), USCIS will begin implementing new policy guidance regarding extreme hardship waivers and how they should be adjudicated. The new instructions for officers, as laid out in the updated USCIS Policy Manual, is a t… Read More

There is a new bill making its way through the New Jersey Legislature that, if signed into law, would make New Jersey one of a select group of states to offer driving licenses to those who do not have lawful immigration status in the United States. T… Read More

Late last week, the Republican Party finally released their much-anticipated list of principles regarding immigration reform, which the GOP was reluctant to grapple with last year. It is a one page document entitled “Standards for Immigration R… Read More

Can our country afford Immigration Reform? That is the question raised by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation. He argues making 11 million illegal immigrants eligible for legal status would “generate costs in Medicare and Social Security a… Read More

DHS Secretary Janet Naplitano announced today the posting of a final rule in the Federal Register concerning the provisional or stateside waiver process that we had written about earlier. Under this new process–which will become effective March… Read More

Is it better to Achieve, or to Dream? That is a question that was raised late last year by Senators Hutchison, Kyl, and McCain. They introduced the Achieve Act, which acts as a counter-offer to the Democrats’ Dream Act. Both Acts seek to offer… Read More

In an interesting decision out of the First Circuit, Sheikh vs. Holder, the Court of Appeals recently ruled that it was not an abuse of discretion for an Immigration Judge to deny a six-month continuance to the Respondent to wait for the passage of c… Read More