Keeping you informed on the latest immigration news.
DHS Adds 15,000 H-2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker Visas
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen announced on May 25, 2018, that the federal government will add 15,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year 2018. Secretary Nielsen said she determined that there is a shortage of qualified,...
Miller Mayer Immigration Group Recognized by Chambers & Partners
Miller Mayer, LLP’s Immigration practice group and Miller Mayer immigration attorneys Stephen Yale-Loehr and Carolyn Lee were recognized by Chambers & Partners in their recently published Chambers USA 2018 guide. Chambers & Partners is the leading...
USCIS to Take Final Action on Proposed EB-5 Regulations in August
The current administration published a Spring regulatory agenda recently indicating that USCIS will take final action on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization rule in August. Part of the proposed rule published in January 2017 was an increase in the...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted Regarding DACA Case, Diversity Green Card Program, Detention of Asylum Seekers, Border Patrol Arrests
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was recently quoted in the following publications: On DACA litigation: Associated Press: Texas suit could speed DACA’s path to Supreme Court CNN: 7 states sue to end DACA, potentially jumbling its legal future...
Miller Mayer’s Kristal Ozmun and Adam Schaye Write Article on EB-5 Bridge Financing
Kristal Ozmun and Adam Schaye co-authored an article published in EB5 Investors Magazine detailing the role, current policy, and future of bridge financing in EB-5 projects. You can read the article here: A Tide Change in EB-5 Bridge Financing Policy
Miller Mayer Success Story: Extraordinary Ability Green Card Approved After Waiting Years for an Asylum Approval
Miller Mayer immigration attorneys Steve Yale-Loehr, Sandra Bruno, and Jane Zhang recently received a green card for a client in the EB-1A extraordinary ability category. The foreign national, now a U.S. permanent resident, originally filed an asylum application over...
IT Company to Pay 12 Employees for Violations of H-1B Program
IT employer Cloudwick Technologies Inc., based in Newark, California, will pay $173,044 to 12 employees for violations of the federal H-1B foreign labor certification program, after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD)....
TPS for Hondurans to End in January 2020
On May 4, 2018, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen announced her decision to terminate the temporary protected status (TPS) designation for Honduras with a "delayed effective date of 18 months to allow for an orderly transition before the designation...
DOJ Settles Immigration-Related Claim Against University of California, San Diego
The Department of Justice announced on May 10, 2018, that it has reached a settlement agreement with the University of California, San Diego. The settlement resolves the Department's investigation into whether the university's Resource Management and Planning Vice...
DOJ, USCIS Announce Agreement on Protecting U.S. Workers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Justice announced on May 11, 2018, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that "expands their collaboration to better detect and eliminate fraud, abuse, and discrimination by employers bringing...
