A public policy blog on America's dysfunctional immigration system
The saga of DOL’s new focus on PERM enforcement continues. As reported yesterday in the National Law Journal (“Labor Agency Audit of Firm Angers Immigration Lawyers“), after clearing away its pre-PERM backlog in the fall of last year, the Department of Labor found itself with time on its hands.
Apparently adopting the view…
On July 9, Alma and Jose Bustamante forced open the door of consular absolutism just an inch or so, but this wasn’t enough room for the couple to go through that unjust portal. Consular absolutism (also known as consular nonreviewability) is the longstanding judicial doctrine that the courts will not consider visa refusals based on…
“Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
‘Til it’s gone”The Joni Mitchell lyrics to Big Yellow Taxi came to mind as I read today’s announcement from the Department of State. The agency published in the Federal Register an interim final rule that eliminated as “obsolete” the Board of
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Sometimes, for no apparent reason, a word or phrase bubbles up from deep within the realm of memory. As I studied the excellent 2008 USCIS Ombudsman’s Report to Congress, out from my cerebral hard drive popped “Hello Out There!” — the title and opening and ending lines of William Saroyan’s outstanding 1942…
If Congress were my dear departed Mom, and I were the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there would be purgatory to pay if I brought home a report card like DHS produced in 2007. To put it another way, If the President were Sister Donavita, my eighth grade parochial-school nun, and she issued me the…