Immigration Blog

This case raises significant questions having to do with how "John Doe" acquired his U.S. citizenship, especially if he acquired it through birth to foreign visitors or through naturalization.

Foreign students who drop out of status should be routinely expelled from this country by ICE. Yet the implication in a recent ICE press release about a Chinese student seemed to be that only foreign students who create special worries (he bought some "high-powered firearms") are singled out for removal.

On May 11, 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that licensed crab processors on Maryland's Eastern Shore will be short 200 workers this year, which the paper attributes to the recent allocation of nonimmigrant H-2B visas.

How can you write an otherwise accurate article about OPT without mentioning the massive subsidy paid to employers who hire former foreign students instead of Americans?

On May 9, 2018, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Department of Justice (DOJ) component responsible for the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) released updated court statistics, and announced that it intended to implement a "transparency initiative".

The H-1B program is not being abused; the H-1B program itself is abusive and needs to be completely discarded.

A cynic might suggest that they were made for each other. One element is Michael Cohen, who paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 to be silent about her relations with President Trump, and the other is the often corruption-tainted EB-5 (immigrant investor) program. Stir in one of the world's most prominent lobbying firms, Squire Patton Boggs, and you have the latest wrinkle in The Adventures of EB-5.

A Brazilian DACA recipient is suing Bank of America after it declined to hire him as a "wealth manager" despite his educational qualifications. There are several interesting angles to the story.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas detailed the conviction in sentencing of two Nigerian nationals for their roles in a Stolen Identity Refund Fraud (SIRF) scheme.

A single phrase in the immigration law has resulted in the specious grant of literally millions of work permits, not just to TPS recipients but to many other categories of aliens, including DACA recipients.