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Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr to Speak at the International Education Conference in Washington, D.C.
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr will speak at the 16th Washington International Education Conference, an event offering independent objective information to the international education community, to be held at the University of California,...
Miller Mayer’s Nicolai Hinrichsen, Kristal Ozmun and Adam Schaye to Speak at the 2018 Las Vegas EB-5 & Global Investment Immigration Convention
Miller Mayer immigration attorneys Nicolai Hinrichsen, Kristal Ozmun and Adam Schaye will speak at the 2018 Las Vegas EB-5 & Global Investment Immigration Convention, hosted by EB-5 Investors Magazine at the Bellagio Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr to Speak on Visa Options for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr will speak at "Starting Up and Staying Here: Immigrant Entrepreneurship," a business networking event highlighting immigrant entrepreneurship to be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on February 7, 2018....
Miller Mayer Success Story: National Interest Waiver Green Card Approval
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Rosanne Mayer successfully obtained a National Interest Waiver green card for the Director of Strategic Engagement for a nonprofit organization that advances public-private partnerships. Rosanne guided this individual through the NIW...
USCIS Will Not Seek to Limit H-1B Extensions
Recently, media reports began to surface indicating that the Trump Administration’s regulatory agenda would include an effort to restrict H-1B extensions beyond the six-year limit. USCIS spokesman Jonathan Withington has confirmed that “...USCIS is not considering a...
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...
