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Practicing At The Intersection Of Criminal And Immigration Law (aka”Crim-Imm”) 1920 1440 Helen A. Sklar

Practicing At The Intersection Of Criminal And Immigration Law (aka”Crim-Imm”)

What is crim-imm and why is it so important in the wider field of immigration law? “Crim-imm” refers to the crossover area of criminal law and immigration law, where criminal and immigration law intersect. It is a field of law scholarship and practice that emerged as the traditional boundaries between criminal and immigration law began…

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Sorting out Financial Requirements for Immigration Applicants 1920 1131 Taiyyeba Safri Skomra

Sorting out Financial Requirements for Immigration Applicants

Whereas most research shows that immigrants use public benefits at lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens,[1] a dizzying web of initiatives by the Trump Administration reveal a noisy, and perhaps intimidating, plan to reorder longstanding programs and standards in the realm of public benefits and financial support for immigrants.  The upshot of these Administration efforts…

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Lawyering and Litigating in Era of Delays 1000 559 Amy Lenhert

Lawyering and Litigating in Era of Delays

The experienced immigration practitioner will agree that USCIS has never enjoyed a reputation for speedy and efficient case processing. However, in recent years USCIS processing delays have been steadily – often sharply — increasing across the spectrum. From routine applications for employment authorization or for naturalization (which is of increasing concern as we approach an…

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The H-1B Program – Trends and New Developments 3423 2743 Kathleen Grzegorek

The H-1B Program – Trends and New Developments

A key component of the “Buy American, Hire American” Executive Order signed by President Trump two years ago was to create more transparency in employment based visa programs, particularly the H-1B nonimmigrant visa category. To this end, USCIS created a public website, known as the  H-1B Employer Data Hub, to provide information to the public…

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EB-1 Backlog Continues for Fiscal Year 2019 849 565 Candice Garrett

EB-1 Backlog Continues for Fiscal Year 2019

The EB-1 visa backlog remains unprecedented in scope. Note, this category includes EB-1A, Extraordinary Ability; EB-1B, Outstanding Professors and Researchers; and, EB-1C, Intracompany Transferees serving in a managerial or executive capacity. The backlogs are particularly acute for those born in India and China. During a recent meeting with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Charles…

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Delay in naturalization applications leads to litigation, Congressional inquiry 1000 559 Amy Lenhert

Delay in naturalization applications leads to litigation, Congressional inquiry

The number of Applications for Naturalization submitted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) went up by 25% from 2013 to 2017, and then saw a decline in 2018. The significant jump in the number of applications in 2016 alone contributed to a backlog in processing naturalization (N-400) applications. However, despite the fact…

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Litigating H-1B denials in the “Buy American and Hire American” era 3423 2743 Amy Lenhert

Litigating H-1B denials in the “Buy American and Hire American” era

In April 2017, President Trump issued an immigration-related executive order that has garnered significantly less attention than the “Travel Ban” order directed at restricting immigration from majority Muslim countries.  However, the “Buy American and Hire American” executive order (also called “BAHA”) has notably impacted the legal immigration system.  The stated objective of the BAHA order…

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