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6/26/2010 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has filed its annual report to Congress on the numbers and characteristics of H-1B visa petitions in FY2009. The report covers many points, but one in particular is that the number of petitions received was down about 15% and approvals were down about 20%. Click here to view the report in its entirety.
6/22/2010 Visa Law Group wins appeal of USCIS denial of I-140 Petition under EB-1 “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” class. Decision allows our client, an Assistant Medical Professor from India working at a major US university, immediate immigrant status. Our firm regularly represents foreign scientists and researchers obtain visas in complex programs including EB-1 Extraordinary Ability, EB-1 Outstanding Researcher, and EB-2 National Interest Waiver. (AAO appeal analysis and decision attached).
6/1/2010 David Morris selected for as one of only 10 lawyers to serve on AILA’s National EB-5 Investor Visa Committee for 2010-2011 term. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is the national association of over 11,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law.
5/28/2010 As printed in a recent NY Times article, Dean and Laura Franks, a British couple who opened a restaurant in Maine in 2000, found that after nine years of running their business, they could not renew their visa, forcing them to shutter the restaurant and leave the country.
5/14/2010 Congress needs to create a new PhD Visa program to stop chasing away the new foreign brilliant minds - they are America's R&D future. Read this great article by Emily Badger
5/14/2010 According to a recent NY Times article, Mr. van Sander, a dual British and German citizen, faced deportation without a hearing and a 10-year ban on returning to the United States. His offense: an error in his green card paperwork, which he filed after he entered the country under the visa-waiver program. That program, used by millions of travelers from 36 favored nations, including Germany and Britain, allows a 90-day stay, but includes a little-noticed provision requiring foreign visitors to give up any right to contest summary deportation, except in a claim for asylum.
5/13/2010 The U.S. Department of Labor today unveiled a new tool to help employers and others understand how to comply with requirements under the H-1B visa program, which allows for the temporary employment of foreign workers in the U.S. in certain specialty occupations.
5/11/2010 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has redesigned the Permanent Resident Card - commonly known as the "Green Card" - to incorporate several major new security features. The Green Card redesign is the latest advance in USCIS’s ongoing efforts to deter immigration fraud. State-of-the-art technology incorporated into the new card prevents counterfeiting, obstructs tampering, and facilitates quick and accurate authentication. Beginning today, USCIS will issue all Green Cards in the new, more secure format.
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David Morris selected for as one of only 10 lawyers to serve on AILA’s National EB-5 Investor Visa Committee for 2010-2011 term. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is the national association of over 11,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law.
David M. Morris, Esq. selected to serve as Discussion Leader for 3-Part Conference Series “EB-5 Investor Options for Experts” hosted by ILW.com, the nation’s leading immigration publisher.
David Morris, Esq. co-authored article “Realizing the Economic-developmment Goals of EB5 Through an Integrated Targeted Employment Area Definition” in Bender’s Immigration Bulletin (Vol. 14, No 20. Oct 15, 2009). The key enhancement introduced in the article now appears in U.S. Congressman Polis bill seeking to modify EB-5 visa program.
David M. Morris, Esq. was interviewed for Sunday's The Washington Post article "Immigrants Invest in U.S. Businesses in Exchange For Visas" exploring the EB-5 investor visa (Green Card) program. (January 10, 2010). For more information on the EB-5 program contact David via e-mail at Morris@VisaLawGroup.com
EB-5 Investor Visa News: David Morris, Esq. of Visa Law Group was selected to serve as a distinguished speaker in three presentations covering advanced topics in EB-5 law. On October 19th, David was a co-panelist on “Deconstructing AAO Precedent Decisions” in the “Advanced Issues” portion of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s (AILA) first ever EB-5 investor Conference held in San Francisco. On December 17th, David was a panelist on the “Investors for Experts” national EB-5 seminar hosted by ILW, the leading immigration law publisher of Immigration Daily. On December 9th, David was a co-speaker on “Investor Options for Beginners” also hosted by ILW.

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