[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 Adjudicator’s Curse.”]… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: “Immigration Lawyers”
EB-5 Immigration Lawyers Wear Too Many Hats
Posted in EB-5, Immigration Lawyers, Legal RepresentationThe EB-5 employment-creation immigrant investor visa category continues to transcend its chutes-and-ladders early history. This 24-year-old program — like many young adults of the same era — seems at last to be maturing in healthy ways. Foreign investors have become more savvy. Regulators are more attuned to the need for greater investor protection, as well as clear, consistently enforced … Continue Reading
Why Are Immigration Lawyers So Happy?
Posted in Immigration Lawyers, Pro Bono Legal Services
According to statistics provided to CNN by the Centers for Disease Control, among professionals in the United States lawyers rank fourth in suicides (exceeded in misery only by dentists, pharmacists and physicians). Lawyers are also nearly four times more likely to suffer from depression than non-lawyers.
Clearly, practicing … Continue Reading
If Immigration Law Were a Person It Would Sing: “Oh Lord, Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”
Posted in Border Security, Congress on Immigration, Deportation - Removal, DREAM Act, Enforcement/USICE, Immigration "Tribes", Immigration Law Complexity, Immigration Lawyers, Immigration Reform, Mexico, Obama Administration on Immigration, Removal Proceedings[Blogger’s Note: An earlier version of this post mistakenly suggested that the article discussed below offering the views of an immigration lawyer was written by that lawyer. It was not; rather it was written by a reporter who quoted the lawyer. This blogger regrets the error.]
The power of online and social media to whip up a frenzy of vituperation … Continue Reading
Memo to GCs: If Ever There Is a Time for Immigration Portfolio Management, It’s Now.
Posted in Border Security, Business Visitors, Employment-Based Immigration, Fraud Detection & National Security (FDNS), General, H-1B Visas, I-9s, Immigration Law Complexity, Immigration Portfolio Management, Immigration Quotas, Immigration Reform, L-1 Visa, Legal RepresentationMuch has been written since April 17 when the bipartisan Gang of Eight senators introduced S. 744, a brobdingnagian immigration reform bill that overlays 844 pages of turgid text on top of the already gargantuan and complex Immigration and Nationality Act. The Migration Policy Institute, the National Immigration Law Center, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) have … Continue Reading
Immigration Brainstorming and DREAMstorming
Posted in DREAM Act, Enforcement/USICE, Fraud Detection & National Security (FDNS), Immigration "Tribes", Immigration Law Complexity, Immigration Lawyers, USCISAndrew Jackson had his “Kitchen Cabinet,” Franklin Roosevelt his “Brain Trust.” Seth Godin has his “Tribes,” web-based “silos of interest.”
I’ve been a member of many tribes (as I write this I’m recalling my tattered T-shirt from my own and my adult daughter’s Indian Princess days, many moons ago [click here to see the shirt]).
In … Continue Reading
“I Hate [Bleep]ing Immigration Law” — Whenever I Get an Unjust Request for Evidence
Posted in Immigration Agency Expertise, Immigration and Journalism, Legal Representation, Requests for Evidence (RFEs), USCIS, USCIS OmbudsmanEver 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), practices a rather pathetic and half-hearted … Continue Reading
Powdered Wig Immigration with the Lawyer as Potted Plant
Posted in Fraud Detection & National Security (FDNS), Legal Representation, Unauthorized Practice of Immigration Law, USCIS
Many thoughts rushed through my mind as I read the heartening headline to a press release issued January 19 by the American Immigration Council (“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Takes Steps to Improve Noncitizens’ Access to Legal Counsel“).
What did USCIS do to improve access to lawyers? Did it instruct the agency’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate… Continue Reading