By Maria Sacchetti, The Washington Post Federal officials arrested 97 immigrants at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee on Thursday in what civil rights organizations said was the largest single workplace raid in a decade and a sign that the Trump administration is carrying out its plan to aggressively ramp […]
Author: Foster LLP
On April 6, 2018, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) announced that the CIS had received enough H-1B petitions to exhaust the 85,000 H-1B quota (which includes 20,000 set aside for U.S. advance degree holders) for Fiscal Year 2019 (October 1, 2018, through September 30, 2019). No new cap-subject H-1B […]
Kevin Kerrigan | The Guam Daily Post The District Court of Guam has granted class action status to the lawsuit filed by the Guam Contractors Association and 11 other plaintiffs against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over USCIS’ blanket denial of H-2B visas for skilled foreign workers. “It’s another […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration has introduced production quotas for immigration judges in an effort to reduce enormous court backlogs, raising concern among judges and attorneys that decisions may be unfairly rushed. The Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review said judges must complete 700 cases a year […]