The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for February 2018, showing significant forward progress in the third preference category for China and minor progress across the remaining employment-based categories, except for the preference categories and countries that remain current. The EB-2 category remains current for applicants […]
By John Council, Texas Lawyer The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed the six-year prison sentence of a Fort Worth woman who used two Mexican citizens as slaves by forcing them to clean houses in the United States without pay and controlling the undocumented immigrant sisters by […]
By John Austin, Jacksonville Progress AUSTIN — Holding a campus job to cover rent while attending the University of Texas isn’t making Sam Cervantes rich, but the sales taxes and tuition he pays are helping enrich the state’s economy. Yet while Cervantes aspires to someday become a lawyer, as one […]
By Alicia A. Caldwell, The Wall Street Journal The Trump administration is issuing new guidelines to the nation’s overwhelmed immigration courts in hopes that new case priorities and goals will ease a massive backlog. A seven-page memo to immigration judges from James McHenry, the director of the Executive Office for […]
