By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times A federal judge in Washington who had been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration reversed course Tuesday and ruled she could not force the State Department to grant visa lottery approvals to would-be immigrants from Iran and Yemen. The complicated […]
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Keep On Keepin’ On: Meeting Today’s Immigration Challenges Head-on
22 Mar
by Delisa Bressler, on Immigration
By Delisa Bressler, Partner With all the controversial attention on immigration lately – on things like the border wall, court decisions on travel bans and sanctuary cities, and Congress’s failure to act on a solution for Dreamers – it is sometimes easy to get caught up in the politics, to […]
Silicon Valley reeling as Trump chokes off a critical source of tech talent
20 Mar
by Foster LLP, on News
By Elizabeth MacBride, CNBC Donald Trump has taken a tougher stance toward Iran in the past year, including more sanctions, a travel ban and amped-up rhetoric. Mike Pompeo, the CIA director set to be nominated as Secretary of State, is an Iran hardliner. But there’s been collateral damage from these […]
By James Harkin, The New York Times LONDON – Procedures and processes, as everyone who has spent time waiting for permission to travel in authoritarian regimes knows, are what malevolent bureaucracies take refuge in when they wish to deliver a silent snub. The bureaucrats tell you: We are still waiting […]