The head of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement agency, ICE, is leaving his job after more than four years. The director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), John Morton, says in a note sent to Ice employees on Monday that he is leaving his job at the end of July and is taking a position at […]
Question Detail: My mom and step dad started their relationship in 1985. In 1992 they got married while in vacation in the US, I was 19 and I was the legal witness to their marriage. Now I want to petition for him and my mother. If I have proof to their relationship prior to 1992, […]
The U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou will soon move to a new and spacious facility in the Zhujiang New Torn neighborhood. During the Consulate’s move, it will be necessary to temporarily suspend the usual passport, extra pages, consular report of birth and notary services. From July 15 until July 22, appointments and passport pick up […]
Under 8 C.F.R. 103.2(b)(8) USCIS has the discretion to issue Request for Evidence (RFEs) and Notice of Intent to Deny (NOIDs) in appropriate circumstances. USCIS also has the discretion in some instances to issue a denial without first issuing an RFE or NOID. This policy manual offers guidance to the exercise of that discretion and […]
A recurring theme in the debate of Senate Bill 744, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill, will be the question of whether the legalization provisions should be linked to border security provisions. The first test of this question will come today on the Senate debate floor, when the Senate will consider Grassley’s amendment no. 1195 to […]
Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) predicted on Sunday that the Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill would pass by July 4 and went on to say that a strong vote for the bill could result in forcing the Republican congressman in the House to embrace the Gang of Eight’s bill, despite House speaker john Boehner’s (R-Ohio) […]
Memo from Mary Mucha, Directing Attorney Los Angeles County Bar Association Today I spoke to Dianne Armenteros (USCIS supervisor room 1001) regarding this problem about fee’ing Immigration Court Motions for the Los Angeles Immigration Court. Here is what she said. USCIS needs to “count” all cases that are processed in room 1001. They need to […]
The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Janet Napolitano, has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for eligible nationals of El Salvador for an additional 18 months starting on September 10, 2013 and the period ends on March 9, 2015. Current Salvadoran TPS beneficiaries seeking to extend their TPS status must re-register during the allotted 60-day […]
Late Tuesday night Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy managed to get a bipartisan immigration reform bill through his committee before Memorial Day, after weeks of keeping the band of senators together. Senate Bill 744 is ready for primetime on the Senate floor. Once the bill hits the floor, many Senators, both those with good intentions […]
On an average work day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took 1,509 individuals into custody, as reported in the latest available ICE data from November and December 2012. During the weekends, the volume of detained aliens decreased to an average of 471 people a day placed into ICE custody. Nearly 8,500 individuals were picked up […]
