On January 31, 2020, President Trump issued a Presidential “Proclamation on Improving Enhanced Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry” which becomes effective on February 21, 2020. The proclamation expands the March 6, 2017 Executive Order 13780 “Protecting the National from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States” and […]
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U.S. Travel Ban Upheld, Case-by-Case Consultations Recommended
3 Jul
by Foster LLP, on Immigration Updates
In its decision dated June 26, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the third version of President Trump’s Travel Ban, which was originally announced on September 24, 2017, via a Presidential Proclamation. The full name of the proclamation is “Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted […]
By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times A federal judge in Washington who had been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration reversed course Tuesday and ruled she could not force the State Department to grant visa lottery approvals to would-be immigrants from Iran and Yemen. The complicated […]
Keep On Keepin’ On: Meeting Today’s Immigration Challenges Head-on
22 Mar
by Delisa Bressler, on Immigration
By Delisa Bressler, Partner With all the controversial attention on immigration lately – on things like the border wall, court decisions on travel bans and sanctuary cities, and Congress’s failure to act on a solution for Dreamers – it is sometimes easy to get caught up in the politics, to […]