Immigration activists vowed Republicans will pay a political price after a federal appeals court kept President Barack Obama’s action to defer deportation on hold. The 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday was a victory for opponents of Obama’s plan to extend […]
Immigration law firm Foster, LLP, has expanded its family-based immigration practice to accommodate the increased demand for immigration legal services resulting from President Barack Obama’s executive action that includes the expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the new Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA). José R. Pérez, […]
Prompted by a recent decision of the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), on May 21, 2015, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) issued guidance clarifying that an amended H-1B petition is required when the H-1B employee’s work location will change to a location outside the metropolitan statistical area or area of […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has implemented a regulatory change that will go into effect May 26th that grants employment authorization benefits to certain H-4 spouses of H-1B nonimmigrants working in the United States. Pursuant to this regulatory change, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) has recently published […]