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“The Executive Office for Immigration Review Announces Update Regarding Upgrades to its Telephone Case Information System FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced a change to the security enhancements to its telephone case information system. As previously announced for the August 30, 2010, launch of phase one, EOIR successfully moved the system to a…
The devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, “set off an international adoption bonanza in which some safeguards meant to protect children were ignored.” The Obama administration responded to the crisis in Haiti by lifting visa requirements for children in the process of being adopted by Americans. Adoptions were expedited under a sparingly used immigration program called Humanitarian Parole.…
Public Law 111-230, signed by President Obama on August 13, 2010, requires the submission of an additional fee of $2,000 for certain H-1B petitions and $2,250 for certain L-1A and L-1B petitions – those being from H-1B or L-1 petitioners that employ 50 or more employees in the United States with more than 50 percent of their employees in the…
Yesterday, Democratic Representatives urged Congress to pass the Uniting American Families Act as part of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR). The bill seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow for permanent partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status. House Democrats are hoping to garner the support of the gay, lesbian, and transgendered…
Wow – a proud moment for me as the daughter of a Filipina immigrant mother (a pediatrician who is now a longtime U.S. citizen) and for the Filipino American community: Governor Schwarzenegger has nominated Tani Cantil-Sakauye, an appellate justice and moderate republican for California Supreme Court Justice. Justice Cantil-Sakauye, a Filipina American who is the daughter of farm workers and…
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has extended its deadline for processing immigration applications for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from July 12, 2010 to January 18, 2011. TPS is granted to eligible nationals of certain countries (or persons without nationality who last habitually lived in that country) who have experienced temporary negative conditions, such as armed conflict, environmental disaster,…