by Girish Anand | Mar 6, 2016 | E-Verify, immigration, USCIS
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this past week announced the launch of a Known Employer pilot program to assess a new process for employers seeking to hire certain workers through employment-based visa categories. By modifying the process U.S. Citizenship...
by Girish Anand | Jan 19, 2016 | immigration, U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the legality of President Obama’s twin executive orders of November 2014 that aimed to block deportation of illegal immigrations and also offer millions of them work permits. Obama’s plans were blocked...
by Girish Anand | Dec 30, 2015 | immigration
President Obama’s executive immigration edicts from November 2014 have been put on hold by a federal district judge and then once again upon review by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and both decisions now rest on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court for...
by admin | Nov 9, 2015 | immigration, U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans today upheld a federal judge’s injunction against President Obama’s immigration executive orders of 2014, putting a permanent hold on the plans while awaiting trial in Texas. The president’s plan,...
by admin | Jul 9, 2015 | immigration, U.S. Supreme Court
Administration lawyers will be back before the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals tomorrow in a second attempt to get the justices to lift a legal hold placed on the president’s immigration executive orders by a federal judge in Texas. The effort could prove to...
by admin | May 28, 2015 | DOJ, immigration
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has vowed to stay the course in fighting a federal judge’s injunction against President Obama’s November 2014 immigration executive orders, which would award up to 5 million undocumented immigrants a safe haven from...
