Since 2008 American employers have been burning mad about how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has gone from fairly reasonable to highly restrictive in its interpretation of the L-1B “specialized knowledge” visa category. This statutory visa category allows certain “intracompany transferees” to enter and work in the U.S. for a qualifying employer if he
Immigration Voices: Dr. No vs. the League of Extraordinary Aliens
[Blogger’s note: An anonymous immigration lawyer offers this lament on the woeful quality of adjudications at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). For related wailing, see: “ ‘I Hate [Bleep]ing Immigration Law’ — Whenever I Get an Unjust Request for Evidence,” “End the Tyranny of Immigration Insubordination,” and “Immigration Indifference
The L-1 Intracompany Transferee Visa Facing Attack — from All Branches of the Federal Government (Part II)
[Bloggers Note: The second of my two-part blog post below first appeared in Seyfarth Shaw LLP‘s September 10 and September 12 “Employment Law Lookout” Blog]
The L-1 Intracompany Transferee Visa Facing Attack — from All Branches of the Federal Government (Part II)
By Angelo A. Paparelli
As noted in our last post, American businesses
Immigration-Agency Lawbreaking Revealed: USCIS’s EB-5 “Tenant-Occupancy” Scandal
[Bloggers Note: This post is authored jointly by Brandon Meyer and Angelo A. Paparelli]
Some scandals raise eyebrows; others cause real economic harm. The one we’re about to reveal — known as “tenant occupancy” — does both. It makes the GSA’s Las Vegas cavorting pale in comparison. (Immigration lawyer alert: For those with prurient interests [you know
“I Hate [Bleep]ing Immigration Law” — Whenever I Get an Unjust Request for Evidence
Ever since I first sat in a Los Angeles movie theatre watching Grand Canyon, Lawrence Kasdan’s 1991 film, the only movie, to my knowledge, whose protagonist is an immigration lawyer, I knew I would mouth to myself, repeatedly over the ensuing years, one of its memorable lines. The main character, Mac (played by Kevin Kline)