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Date	Doc ID	Type	Summary
6/26/2010	1705	News	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	1704	News	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	1702	News	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	1703	News	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	1698	News	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	1699	News	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	1700	News	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	1701	News	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.
4/30/2010	1694	News	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.
4/29/2010	1695	News	According to a recent FoxNews.com article, House Republican Leader John Boehner said that immigration legislation has no chance of passing this year
4/29/2010	1692	News	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.
4/28/2010	1688	News	On December 14, 2009, USCIS participated in a stakeholder session with AILA's EB-5 committee. This document provides questions posed by the stakeholders and the answers provided by USCIS during this meeting.
4/28/2010	1685	News	On December 11, 2009 Donald Neufeld published a USCIS memorandum providing instruction to California Service Center (CSC) personnel involved in the adjudication of EB-5 Regional Center Proposals, and affiliated Forms I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur and Forms I-829, Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions.
4/28/2010	1686	News	On January 16, 2009, USCIS Chief, James McCament wrote a letter to Senator John Cornyn in response to his inquiry regarding information about the job creation requirement for immigrant investors.
4/26/2010	1689	News	As of April 22, 2010, USCIS has received 16,025 H-1B petitions that count towards the cap for fiscal year 2011. The current annual cap on the H-1B category is 65,000.
4/21/2010	1696	News	Here is the G-123A, a worksheet for ICE agents taking complaints about unauthorized workers.
4/20/2010	1687	News	DOL issues court decision about “prevailing wage” and “actual wage” in H-1b visa case. This case is interesting because it shows how the LCA form and attached employer attestations may be used to establish claims by a foreign worker for underpayment of salary. Matter of Baiju, 2009-LCA-00045, Mar. 8, 2010.
4/16/2010	1684	News	According to a story published on Network World's website, a federal case filed in New Jersey this month alleges that an H-1B visa-holding IT employee who was owed some $53,000 in back wages was threatened in meetings at restaurants and in his home if he didn't change his story.
3/30/2010	1697	News	While preliminary statistical trends hint at a slowing of migration pressures, it remains unclear how the current economic recession will affect immigration. Addressing these contentious policy reforms against the backdrop of economic crisis sharpens the social and business cleavages and narrows the range of options.
3/25/2010	1683	News	Congress hears testimony about USCIS options for tracking visa overstays – including the problems with any system
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