Keeping you informed on the latest immigration news.
DOJ Settles U.S. Worker Discrimination Claims Against Colorado Agricultural Company
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with Crop Production Services Inc. (Crop Production), an agricultural company headquartered in Loveland, Colorado. The settlement resolves a lawsuit the DOJ filed against the...
DOJ Clarifies Policy on EADs for TPS Hondurans and Nicaraguans
The Immigrant & Employee Rights Section of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division recently clarified policy with respect to employment authorization documents (EADs) based on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) automatic extension...
USCIS Clarifies Proxy Vote Use for Certain Intracompany Transferee Visa Petitions
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued updated policy guidance on January 3, 2018, clarifying that a proxy vote must be irrevocable to establish the requisite control of a company in an L-1 intracompany transferee visa petition. USCIS explained that...
CBP Updates Directive on Border Searches of Electronic Devices
On January 4, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued an update to the agency's directive governing border searches of electronic devices. The new directive supersedes the previous directive released in August 2009. John Wagner, CBP Deputy Executive Assistant...
OFLC Alerts Employers, Stakeholders about High Volume of H-2B Temporary Labor Certification Requests
The Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) made a "public service announcement" on January 3, 2018, to alert employers and other interested stakeholders about the high volume of applications received requesting temporary labor...
New I-94 Feature Reminds VWP Travelers of Number of Remaining Days
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently launched two new "traveler compliance initiatives" on January 5, 2018. A new feature added to the I-94 website, under the "View Compliance" tab, allows Visa Waiver Program (VWP) travelers to check the status of their...
DHS to Terminate TPS for El Salvador in September 2019
On January 8, 2018, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen announced that the temporary protected status (TPS) designation for El Salvador will be terminated on September 9, 2019. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that the "substantial disruption...
Former DHS Secretaries Urge Congress to Act on DACA Now; Administration Begins Accepting DACA Renewal Applications
On January 3, 2018, former Department of Homeland Security Secretaries Michael Chertoff, Jeh Johnson, and Janet Napolitano sent a letter to Republican and Democratic congressional leaders urging swift passage of legislation to allow about 700,000 "Dreamers" under the...
Call for Long Term EB-5 Reauthorization
With a couple of choppy years on EB-5 legislation behind us and yet another reauthorization deadline approaching on January 19, Carolyn Lee sums up what the EB-5 visa program needs now in an op-ed for ILW.com. Read the full article on the ILW website.
New Publications and Items of Interest for Early-Mid January
Advisories and tips: Community Advisory: Social Media, Criminalization, and Immigration has been published by the National Lawyers Guild's National Immigration Project. This advisory summarizes ways in which immigration agents may use social media against those in...
