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Miller Mayer Deemed Thought Leader in Corporate Immigration
Who's Who Legal has announced Thought Leaders and Other Leading Individuals in Corporate Immigration. Through thousands of votes and nominations, the market has identified a group of leading lawyers as being among the very best in the world. Miller Mayer was named a...
Reminder: SAVE Goes Paperless
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program issued a reminder that SAVE will become a fully electronic process. As of May 1, 2018, organizations must submit all verification requests electronically. SAVE will no longer process mailed submissions...
Attorney General Orders ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy for Improper Entries at Southwest Border; President Issues Memo on ‘Catch and Release’
On April 6, 2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum directing federal prosecutors along the southwest border of the United States to adopt a "zero-tolerance policy for all offenses referred for prosecution under [8 U.S.C.] section 1325(a)." Later...
ICE Raids Meat-Packing Plant in Tennessee in Largest Single Workplace Raid in a Decade
In the largest single workplace raid in a decade, federal authorities arrested 97 people at a Tennessee meat-processing plant on immigration and other charges. Of those, 86 were reportedly arrested on civil immigration charges; 32 were released without explanation and...
USCIS Launches E-Verify Website
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently launched a new website, www.e-verify.gov. USCIS called it "the authoritative source for information on electronic employment eligibility verification." The website is intended for employers, employees, and the...
USCIS Completes H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2019
On April 11, 2018, USCIS announced that it had used a computer-generated random process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap and the U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master's cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2019. USCIS said it...
Webinar: EB-5: The Road Ahead
When: April 5, 2018 During this free webinar Miller Mayer attorneys Carolyn Lee, Kristal Ozmun, and Steve Yale-Loehr discussed the future of EB-5. Congress failed to pass legislative changes to the EB-5 program in March. But the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
New Publications and Items of Interest for Early/Mid-April
E-Verify free webinar listings are available at https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify/e-verify-webinars/take-free-webinar. Advisories and tips: Community Advisory: Social Media, Criminalization, and Immigration has been published by the National Lawyers Guild’s National...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted Regarding Visa Delays, Immigrant Detention and the EB-5 Program
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted recently in the following publications: The Atlantic: How the Supreme Court is Expanding the Immigrant Detention System China Daily: Spending bill likely to extend EB-5 program again Quartz: The US just...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Spoke at Cornell Law School on “Crimmigration”
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr spoke on a panel, "Crimmigration: Mass Incarceration in the Trump Era," on March 29, 2018, at Cornell Law School. Topics of discussion included an overview of the immigrant detention apparatus, including procedural...
