By Laurel Brubaker Calkins (Bloomberg) –- The Obama administration scrambled Wednesday to convince a Texas judge it shouldn’t be punished for violating his order freezing new immigration rules. At a hearing in federal court in Brownsville, government lawyers repeatedly apologized to U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen for mistakenly issuing 2,600 […]
Federal prosecutors in Washington have dropped the criminal case against a Korean businessman charged with violating U.S. economic sanctions after a federal judge suppressed evidence seized from his laptop. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled in May that prosecutors could not use “incriminating” evidence they discovered after seizing defendant […]
September Visa Bulletin Shows Significant Retrogression for EB-2 China and India
18 Aug
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for September, indicating a retrogression of more than seven years in visa availability under the Employment-based, Second (EB-2) Preference category for applicants born in China. Beginning September 1, 2015, EB-2 applicants born in China or India must have […]
PRINCETON, N.J. — Two in three U.S. adults favor a plan to allow immigrants who are living illegally in the U.S. to remain in the country and become citizens if they meet certain requirements over time. Far fewer support allowing those immigrants to remain in the U.S. to work for […]