13 Nov
by Foster LLP, on News
President Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation Friday morning that will block migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from seeking asylum. The move – which will almost certainly face legal opposition – aims to funnel asylum seekers toward ports of entry. The ban will last 90 days or until […]
President Donald Trump’s crackdown on the controversial H-1B visa is wreaking havoc on U.S. employers, says a group whose members include many of Silicon Valley’s largest technology firms. In a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration and the Department of Homeland Security, industry group Compete America said Citizenship and Immigration’s […]
9 Nov
by Foster LLP, on News
In a sign of the continuing crackdown on H-1B visa fraud, a Sunnyvale man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for an alleged scheme to illegally bring in 600 foreign workers to Silicon Valley over the past decade. Kishore Kumar Kavuru, 46, billed himself as a “staffing specialist” […]
By Amy Taxin October 28 LOS ANGELES — More than 700,000 immigrants are waiting on applications to become U.S. citizens, a process that once took about six months but has stretched to more than two years in some places under the Trump administration. The number of immigrants aspiring to become U.S. citizens surged […]
