According to news reports, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is conducting a series of targeted enforcement actions and has removed hundreds of people. ICE's focus reportedly includes immigrants with criminal convictions, fugitives, and those who reentered the...
Topic: Immigration Updates
USCIS Will Accept Only New Forms After February 21, 2017
New fees for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) forms took effect in December, and updated versions of those forms have been published. These new versions are updated with the new fees and have an edition date of 12/23/16. After February 21, 2017, USCIS...
Ninth Circuit Blocks Entry Ban: Recent Developments re Trump Administration’s Executive Order
Below is a summary of the rapidly developing immigration-related actions of the Trump administration, and related counteractions. The situation remained fluid as of press time: President Trump signed an executive order on January 27, 2017, "Protecting the Nation from...
Miller Mayer in the News
Miller Mayer immigration lawyer Steve Yale-Loehr was recently quoted in the following publications about President Trump’s executive orders, sanctuary cities and campuses, and other immigration issues: NPR, All Things Considered:...
New Publications and Apps to Help Navigate the Complex Immigration Changes
Airport Lawyer is a free Web app that allows community members to securely share information about nationals from countries affected by the entry ban who are arriving at airports. The arrivals information can then be securely passed along to large groups of volunteer...
Detention Remedy Chart
The final week of January 2017 saw the release of four Executive Orders immediately changing U.S. immigration policy. Implementing the orders is the responsibility of several agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection,...
UPDATE: Appellate Court Upholds Suspension of Travel Ban
On February 9, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit rejected the government’s emergency request to reinstate key sections of President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning all noncitizens from seven majority Muslim countries and all refugees. The 29-page...
H-1B Visa: Proposed Changes
The first few days of the Trump presidency have produced an extraordinary number of changes to our nation’s immigration laws. In recent days, the fate of the H-1B visa program has been added to the growing list of immigration programs that are the subject of renewed...
Immigration Executive Orders Help Memo
The final week of January 2017 saw the release of four Executive Orders immediately changing U.S. immigration policy. Implementing the orders is the responsibility of several agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection,...
New Regional Center Form I-924
As a reminder, starting on February 21, 2017, USCIS will only accept the December 23, 2016 edition of Form I-924 (Expires 12/31/2018). USCIS will no longer accept the March 18, 2015 edition of Form I-924 (Expired 03/31/2016) after February 20, 2017. All I-924...
