Miller Mayer immigration attorney Dave Wilks wrote an article called the “Immigration Impact of Unverified Corporate Information” that was published in The National Law Review on April 20, 2017. The article focuses on the Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (“VIBE”) database used by USCIS to verify information presented in immigration filings. The article is here: http://www.natlawreview.com/article/immigration-impact-unverified-corporate-information.
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted in the following media regarding recent immigration-related developments:
Quotes related to Trump’s “Hire American” executive order:
- Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-visas-20170418-story.html (quotes Mr. Yale-Loehr as saying the executive order is “an overly simple solution to a complex problem”)
- USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/18/h1b-visa-immigration-trump-silicon-valley-technology-computer-reform/100621750/
- Marketplace (radio interview): https://www.marketplace.org/2017/04/18/business/trump-wants-rethink-worker-visas
- Univision: http://www.univision.com/noticias/inmigracion/trump-firma-orden-ejecutiva-para-endurecer-los-requisitos-de-las-visas-h-1b
- China Daily: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2017-04/19/content_28996777.htm
- China Epoch Times: http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/17/4/19/n9055366.htm
- Al Jazeera TV interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5VxJHTS984
Quotes in publications regarding other immigration issues:
- New York Times, about the EB-5 program: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/world/asia/china-eb-5-golden-visa.html (The EB-5 program “could be the one immigration program that [the Trump administration is] willing to accept. If done correctly, it creates jobs for U.S. workers.”)
- The Atlantic, re DACA and the DREAMers: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/trumps-quiet-reversal-on-deporting-young-undocumented-immigrants/524367/ (“If you don’t get this advance permission, known as advance parole, then by leaving the country you have effectively abandoned your DACA status. If you return, you are returning illegally and therefore you can be subject to deportation proceedings.”)
- Reuters, re amicus briefs in travel ban litigation: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-legal-idUSKBN17O00W (“The second executive order was much more carefully written than the first. Maybe when various states analyzed it they weren’t as interested as joining.” However, he said, “amicus briefs sometimes are filed for political reasons.”)
- Allentown PA Morning Call, re possible H-1B reform: http://www.mcall.com/business/tech/mc-h1b-visas-lehigh-valley-economy-20170418-story.html (Mr. Yale-Loehr said he hoped reforms would “walk the fine line of curbing fraud and abuse without inhibiting the use of H-1B workers where they’re truly needed to stimulate the economy.”)
- China Daily, re possible EB-5 reform legislation: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-04/24/content_29065487.htm
- Univision: http://www.univision.com/noticias/inmigracion/abogados-muestran-su-preocupacion-por-la-orden-de-sessions-para-reprimir-a-los-inmigrantes-que-buscan-asilo-en-eeuu
- Watertown Daily Times: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news03/border-agents-can-search-electronics-number-of-instances-increased-over-the-years-20170417
- Vice News: https://news.vice.com/story/trump-deported-dreamer-and-wont-explain-why-lawsuit-says