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Nation of Immigrators

A public policy blog on America's dysfunctional immigration system

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Access to Counsel

Let's Not Kill All the Lawyers -- Removing Barriers to Effective Legal Representation in Immigration Matters

Adjustment of Status

Weed and Worry -- The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis TradeAn Immigration Opportunity Lost: USCIS Stiffens on Job Flexibility

Administrative Appeals Office - USCIS

Looking Back -- Not Much Immigration Solace from ObamaImmigration Voices: Coming out of the Shadows with the U Visa

Administrative Procedure Act

Immigration Rush to Judgment - No Good Cause for New H-1B Rules in a HurryPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

Advance Parole Travel Authorization

Immigration Flippancy: USCIS Impedes Travel Abroad for No Good ReasonVenture Capitalists and Immigration Proponents Likely Disappointed by USCIS Proposed Entrepreneurial Parolee Rule

Asylum

Immigration Voices - Careen Shannon: "Edward Snowden and the Politics of Asylum"

B-1 Visas

DOJ faults employer for choosing a visa category with lower filing feesTips from an Immigration Insider: How to Excel at a U.S. Visa Interview

Biden Administration Immigration Policies

A Snitch in Time Saves How Many? – Incentivizing Noncitizens to Report Employment Law ViolationsWhat's Up With USCIS? -- An Oops, Yet Still A Promising Start

Biden Administration on immigration

DOJ faults employer for choosing a visa category with lower filing feesA Snitch in Time Saves How Many? – Incentivizing Noncitizens to Report Employment Law Violations

Biden-Harris Administration on Immigration

A Snitch in Time Saves How Many? – Incentivizing Noncitizens to Report Employment Law ViolationsOops No More, USCIS

Border Issues & CBP

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansLooking Back -- Not Much Immigration Solace from Obama

Border Security

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

Business Visitors

Four Post-Infosys Strategies for Corporate Customers and Consultants to Minimize Immigration RisksMemo to GCs: If Ever There Is a Time for Immigration Portfolio Management, It's Now.

California Immigration Law

California Can Revive the Immigrant Worker Protection Act by Challenging the Authority of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ “FDNS” Enforcement OfficersFrom the Jails to the Streets, Courthouses and Worksites: California Takes on the Federal Immigration Police

Citizenship and Nationality

Weed and Worry -- The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis TradeImmigration Voices - Careen Shannon: "Stop the Birther Nonsense Now"

Citizenship status discrimination

Beware the Employer Risks Nesting in President Biden’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill

Congress on Immigration

Beware the Employer Risks Nesting in President Biden’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform BillImmigration Rush to Judgment - No Good Cause for New H-1B Rules in a Hurry

Constitutional Law

The Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous SongThe Long-Lived 'Con Job' - Structural Injustice in the Immigration 'Courts'

Consular Officers

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansWeed and Worry -- The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis Trade

Courts on Immigration Law

Immigration Rush to Judgment - No Good Cause for New H-1B Rules in a HurryLitigation Victories Force USCIS to Rescind Restrictive H-1B Memoranda ~ Agency Also Offers Unclear Guidance on H-1B “Nonproductive” Status

Customs and Border Protection

Weed and Worry -- The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis TradeCalifornia Can Revive the Immigrant Worker Protection Act by Challenging the Authority of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ “FDNS” Enforcement Officers

Democrats on Immigration

Outspoken Changemaker in a Convoluted MazeBig-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris Administration

Deportation - Removal

Weed and Worry -- The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis TradeTargeted ICE Investigations ~ in it for the Long Haul with Record $95 Million Plea Deal for I-9 Violations

DHS

A Snitch in Time Saves How Many? – Incentivizing Noncitizens to Report Employment Law ViolationsOops No More, USCIS

DHS Technology Reforms

Immigration on a Clean Slate: Game-Changing Proposals on Visa ModernizationThe New I-9: Why Now When We Need Immigration Amnesty for Employers?

DOL

A Snitch in Time Saves How Many? – Incentivizing Noncitizens to Report Employment Law ViolationsImmigration Rush to Judgment - No Good Cause for New H-1B Rules in a Hurry

DREAM Act

INSIGHT: Legal Immigration Can Help Revive the Economy—If We Let ItIf Immigration Law Were a Person It Would Sing: "Oh Lord, Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"

DV Lottery

Immigration by Chance -- Save the DV Green Card Lottery

E-Verify

Immigration Triangulation -- Another Dysfunctional Government PolicyImmigration Voices: "E-Verify's New Lock ~ Like it or Not, This is a Big Deal!"

EB-5

The Known and Unknown Future of the EB-5 Immigrant Investment Program at USCIS and the USCIS OmbudsmanSoothsayings on Changes to the EB-5 Immigrant Investment Program

Employment-Based Immigration

Pursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s ErrandLitigation Victories Force USCIS to Rescind Restrictive H-1B Memoranda ~ Agency Also Offers Unclear Guidance on H-1B “Nonproductive” Status

Enforcement/DOL

A Snitch in Time Saves How Many? – Incentivizing Noncitizens to Report Employment Law ViolationsLitigation Victories Force USCIS to Rescind Restrictive H-1B Memoranda ~ Agency Also Offers Unclear Guidance on H-1B “Nonproductive” Status

Enforcement/USICE

A Snitch in Time Saves How Many? – Incentivizing Noncitizens to Report Employment Law ViolationsBig-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris Administration

Extraordinary Ability

The Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous SongImmigration Voices: Dr. No vs. the League of Extraordinary Aliens

Extreme Hardship

Immigration Law -- Moving away from Individual RightsFaint Immigration Praise

Family Immigration

Immigration Voices: Coming out of the Shadows with the U VisaThe Immigration Pony in Eric Cantor's Defeat

Foreign policy

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

Fraud Detection & National Security (FDNS)

Big-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris AdministrationThe Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous Song

General

Memo to GCs: If Ever There Is a Time for Immigration Portfolio Management, It's Now.Guest Post: The New Immigration Reality for O-1 Visa Petitions by Agents

General Immigration

Outspoken Changemaker in a Convoluted MazeWhat's Up With USCIS? -- An Oops, Yet Still A Promising Start

Global Migration

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

GOP on Immigration

Outspoken Changemaker in a Convoluted MazeWeed and Worry -- The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis Trade

Guest Columns

What Disclaimer? ~ USCIS Ignores Labor Department Warning That the Occupational Outlook Handbook Never Be Used for Legal PurposesImmigration Voices: "Gambling on Immigration at a Dangerous Intersection (Merry Christmas, Ninja Squirrel!)"

H-1B Visas

Immigration Rush to Judgment - No Good Cause for New H-1B Rules in a HurryPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

H-2B Visas

Pursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s ErrandThe Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous Song

Hate speech

No Longer Illegal, But Still An AlienArcing toward Immigration Justice: "Illegals" No More

Homeland Security

Weed and Worry -- The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis TradeImmigration Haunting: Social Security Administration Resumes Issuing No-Match Notices

I-9s

Litigation Victories Force USCIS to Rescind Restrictive H-1B Memoranda ~ Agency Also Offers Unclear Guidance on H-1B “Nonproductive” StatusThe Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous Song

IMMI Awards

The Immigration Year in Review: The 2014 IMMI AwardsThe 2013 Nation of Immigrators Awards - The IMMIs Are Announced

Immigrant and Employee Rights (IER)

Beware the Employer Risks Nesting in President Biden’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill

Immigrant Visas

Your Days Are Numbered -- Practicing Arithmophobic Immigration LawTips from an Immigration Insider: How to Excel at a U.S. Visa Interview

Immigration "Tribes"

If Immigration Law Were a Person It Would Sing: "Oh Lord, Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"USCIS, America's Immigration Cutcherry, Adopts New Procedures as the Boss Readies for a Move Upstairs

Immigration Agency Expertise

An Immigration Opportunity Lost: USCIS Stiffens on Job FlexibilityThe Xenophobes Can't Kill Immigration Reform - But What Should CIR Supporters Do Now?

Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Pursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s ErrandINSIGHT: Legal Immigration Can Help Revive the Economy—If We Let It

Immigration and Journalism

No Longer Illegal, But Still An AlienArcing toward Immigration Justice: "Illegals" No More

Immigration and the Arts

Guest Blog: "Objection! (To Wearing Suits, Growing Up, and Immigration Law in TV and Film)"Rethinking Immigration: If America Will Welcome More Entrepreneurs, Why Not More Creatives?

Immigration Courts

Big-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris AdministrationThe Long-Lived 'Con Job' - Structural Injustice in the Immigration 'Courts'

Immigration Discrimination

Immigration Haunting: Social Security Administration Resumes Issuing No-Match NoticesRevanchist Immigration: The Aftermath of “Buy American, Hire American”

Immigration Humor

Your Days Are Numbered -- Practicing Arithmophobic Immigration LawThe 2013 Nation of Immigrators Awards - The IMMIs Are Announced

Immigration Law Complexity

Big-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris AdministrationThe Long-Lived 'Con Job' - Structural Injustice in the Immigration 'Courts'

Immigration Lawyers

Let's Not Kill All the Lawyers -- Removing Barriers to Effective Legal Representation in Immigration MattersBig-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris Administration

Immigration Mergers and Acquisitions

No Whine before its Time:  USCIS Recognizes Immigration Successorship in Interest for Multinational Executives and Managers

Immigration Portfolio Management

Four Post-Infosys Strategies for Corporate Customers and Consultants to Minimize Immigration RisksMemo to GCs: If Ever There Is a Time for Immigration Portfolio Management, It's Now.

Immigration Protectionism

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

Immigration Quotas

Memo to GCs: If Ever There Is a Time for Immigration Portfolio Management, It's Now.Oh What a Tangled Immigration Web We Weave: A Knotty Future For the H-2B Program

Immigration Reform

Outspoken Changemaker in a Convoluted MazeBig-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris Administration

Immigration Regulations

Big-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris AdministrationThe Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous Song

Immigration Successor in Interest

No Whine before its Time:  USCIS Recognizes Immigration Successorship in Interest for Multinational Executives and Managers

Immigration terminology

Parole-in-Place -- The Immigration PIPsqueak That Could Help Solve the Biggest Obstacle to Comprehensive ReformThe Immigration-Abandonment Ploy -- Fallout from a Fiddling Congress and Bickering Allies

International Entrepreneurs

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

Investor Immigration

Soothsayings on Changes to the EB-5 Immigrant Investment ProgramEyes off the Prize: White House Oblivious to Immigration Bureaucrats' Running out the Clock

L-1 Visa

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

Labor Unions

Immigration Triangulation -- Another Dysfunctional Government PolicyThe Immigration Scandal at DHS -- Just as Bad as at IRS

Legal Representation

“Sue the miscreants!” – Challenging Unjust Work-Visa and Green-Card Denials with Flood-the-Zone and Head-Fake Immigration StrategiesImmigration on a Clean Slate: Game-Changing Proposals on Visa Modernization

Letters to USCIS Ombudsman

An Immigration Opportunity Lost: USCIS Stiffens on Job FlexibilityExecutive Craftsmanship: Job Creation through Existing Immigration Laws

Media Center

International Education Conference Podcast – Chapter 3International Education Conference Podcast - Chapter 2

Mexico

If Immigration Law Were a Person It Would Sing: "Oh Lord, Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"Stop the Immigration Profiling

MOUs - Memoranda of Understanding

AB 450: California’s Law of Unintended Immigration Consequences10 Immigration Predictions: The Foreseeable Consequences of the Supreme Court's Arizona E-Verify Decision

National ID card

Immigration Voices: "E-Verify's New Lock ~ Like it or Not, This is a Big Deal!"

No-Match Notices

Immigration Haunting: Social Security Administration Resumes Issuing No-Match Notices

O-1 Visas

The Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous SongImmigration Voices: Dr. No vs. the League of Extraordinary Aliens

Obama Administration on Immigration

Trump Administration Should Offer Better Immigration Options for Entrepreneurs -- Don't Throw out the Entrepreneurial Baby, with the Parole BathwaterLooking Back -- Not Much Immigration Solace from Obama

P Visas

The Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous SongTips from an Immigration Insider: How to Excel at a U.S. Visa Interview

Parole-in-Place

Parole-in-Place -- The Immigration PIPsqueak That Could Help Solve the Biggest Obstacle to Comprehensive Reform

Pro Bono Legal Services

Why Are Immigration Lawyers So Happy?

Removal Proceedings

Looking Back -- Not Much Immigration Solace from ObamaParole-in-Place -- The Immigration PIPsqueak That Could Help Solve the Biggest Obstacle to Comprehensive Reform

Requests for Evidence (RFEs)

Immigration "Fire on the Ground" -- What's Next for the L-1B Visa?Immigration Voices: Dr. No vs. the League of Extraordinary Aliens

spousal EADs

Where is the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director?

State Department

Why? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the Schengen Area, UK, and Ireland to Receive National Interest Exceptions (NIEs) under Pandemic-Based Visa and Entry BansPursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s Errand

State Immigration Laws

Immigration Voices: Baring My Teeth at I-9 Enforcement InequalitiesImmigration Triangulation -- Another Dysfunctional Government Policy

Trade in Services

An Immigration Opportunity Lost: USCIS Stiffens on Job FlexibilityImmigration Triangulation -- Another Dysfunctional Government Policy

Trump Administration on Immigration

Pursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on Economic Grounds ~ Not A Fool’s ErrandThe Long-Lived 'Con Job' - Structural Injustice in the Immigration 'Courts'

Trump Immigration Policies

The Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous SongImmigration Haunting: Social Security Administration Resumes Issuing No-Match Notices

U visa

Immigration Voices: Coming out of the Shadows with the U Visa

Unauthorized Practice of Immigration Law

Prosecutors, Aim Your Weapons -- Targeting Fraud upon ImmigrantsImmigration D-Day for DACA: Get Protection!

Uncategorized

The Trump Administration Releases a New Hymnal to Curb the Administrative State ~ Immigration Lawyers Erupt in Rapturous SongWhere is the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director?

Unlawful Presence

Parole-in-Place -- The Immigration PIPsqueak That Could Help Solve the Biggest Obstacle to Comprehensive ReformThe Immigration-Abandonment Ploy -- Fallout from a Fiddling Congress and Bickering Allies

USCIS

Oops No More, USCISWhat's Up With USCIS? -- An Oops, Yet Still A Promising Start

USCIS Ombudsman

The Known and Unknown Future of the EB-5 Immigrant Investment Program at USCIS and the USCIS OmbudsmanImmigration Voices: Dr. No vs. the League of Extraordinary Aliens

VAWA - Violence against Women Act

Immigration on a Clean Slate: Game-Changing Proposals on Visa ModernizationHouse GOP Says Immigrant Suffering Hurts Less Than Citizen Suffering

Waivers of Inadmissibility

Weed and Worry -- The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis TradeThe Immigration-Abandonment Ploy -- Fallout from a Fiddling Congress and Bickering Allies

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