Teo Armus Teo Armus Local reporter Email Bio Follow August 17 The free citizenship class at the Gaithersburg Library usually runs about 12 weeks, but Yeslis Martínez has come back every Tuesday for more than a year. A permanent resident from El Salvador, Martínez filled out an application for naturalization last […]
Law Firm Required To Pay Over $100,000 In Penalties To Settle Discrimination Against Citizens And Authorized Workers
30 Aug
by Foster LLP, on News
Neetu Chandak | Contributor An international law firm will be required to pay $132,000 in penalties for discriminating based on citizenship, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Clifford Chance, an international law firm with its U.S. headquarters in New York, restricted staffing for 36 positions based on citizenship status […]
SUMNER, Texas — As part of an ongoing criminal investigation, special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed criminal search warrants at a North Texas business. HSI also arrested more than 100 company employees on federal immigration violations who were unlawfully working in the […]
H-1B visa-reliant Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens’: report
27 Aug
by Foster LLP, on News
Federal investigators found San Jose tech giant Cisco discriminated against American workers by favoring visa-carrying foreign nationals, according to a new report. The U.S. Department of Labor concluded that Cisco “secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens for certain jobs and paid the visa holders at a […]