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Immigration Voices: “What the ‘L’ is Going on with USCIS?”
[Bloggers Note: Today's guest column comes from noted Atlanta-based business immigration lawyer, Eileen M.G. Scofield, who addresses a subject covered often before on NationOfImmigrators, the...
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Waiting in the Wings: A New Leader at the Immigration Helm
The dysfunctional immigration world continues to spin dangerously out of control. Do-nothing House Republicans (and five pusillanimous Democrats) commit political seppuku with the passage of the...
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The Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative...
President Trump’s October 9, 2019 overtures landed as music to the ears of many grizzled immigration lawyers who persistently suffer battle fatigue from the culture of virtually never. On that day the...
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Pursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on...
We’ve seen this movie before. Scene 1: The President issues a proclamation in reliance on his authority to restrict the entry of certain noncitizens under Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 212(f)...
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Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the...
“America is back, the trans-Atlantic alliance is back.” – So declared President Biden on February 23, 2021. Apparently, however, Antony J. Blinken, the newly installed U.S. Secretary of State (DOS),...
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L-1 Petitioners Beware: USCIS Confirms Plans to Expand FDNS Site Visit Program
L-1 Petitioners Beware: USCIS Confirms Plans to Expand FDNS Site Visit Program By Maura K. Travers and Angelo A. Paparelli History is about to repeat itself. Fraud Detection and National Security...
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Immigration “Fire on the Ground”— What’s Next for the L-1B Visa?
Since 2008 American employers have been burning mad about how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has gone from fairly reasonable to highly restrictive in its interpretation of the L-1B...
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Immigration Howling, Hope, Hype and Hodgepodge: USCIS’s New L-1B Memo
Social media flamed with expressions of outrage, relief and tepid optimism ever since President Obama announced on March 23, 2015 the release of long-awaited policy guidance on a key temporary worker...
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Eyes off the Prize: White House Oblivious to Immigration Bureaucrats’ Running...
Two hundred days ago President Obama stoked the hopes of immigration advocates with his announcement of wide-ranging executive actions to try — as far as his authority would carry him — to change...
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Looking Back — Not Much Immigration Solace from Obama
As the Obama presidency nears its twilight, let me tell you about our leader’s eight-year, largely-disappointing record on immigration. But first a bias alert: I voted for the President twice; I like...
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