Florida state Representative Cord Byrd ® and state Senator Joe Gruters ® recently introduced bills that would impose a stealth universal E‑Verify mandate on all new hires in their state. Many in the media are reporting their bills as a…
The United States Department of State (DOS) recently made a number of significant changes to visa “reciprocity” tables. Reciprocity involves either additional fees, or shorter validity periods (or both) for visa applicants from certain countries and for certain visa classifications.…
H-1B cap filing season is fast approaching. U.S. employers who sponsor foreign workers for temporary H-1B work visas should start preparing now for the upcoming new H-1B cap electronic registration commencing this year on March 1, 2020. What Is The…
USCIS Officially Releases Regulations Regarding Its H-1B Electronic Registration Tool for the FY 2021 H-1B Cap On January 9, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) officially released regulations to implement the H-1B Electronic Registration Tool (“ERT”). In the past,…
Antonio was tired of people calling him names. Staff members at the Virginia juvenile hall where he was held would call him pendejo and “onion head,” he said. After fleeing violence in Mexico at age 15 and arriving alone at…
When Paulina Martinez walked out of the Littleton Municipal Courthouse in January 2018, she spotted a white, unmarked van parked outside. Two men in plain clothes were sitting in it. She tried to ignore it, said goodbye to her attorney,…
When a government expert in mental health visited one of the largest immigration detention centers in the U.S. in 2017, she knew the conditions that detainees there sometimes face. A past inspection had found that staff often failed to obtain…
LUMPKIN, Ga. — In a locked, guarded courtroom in a compound surrounded by razor wire, Immigration Judge Jerome Rothschild waits — and stalls. A Spanish interpreter is running late because of a flat tire. Rothschild tells the five immigrants before…
Imagine the NFL and NBA sending Tom Brady and LeBron James to accompany the U.S. Border Patrol on a hunt for undocumented immigrants. Or how about Mike Trout and Serena Williams watching as a group of immigrants are apprehended trying…
According to an advisory opinion issued in December by Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, localities in the commonwealth cannot declare themselves exempt from laws passed by the state legislature. In support of his position, Herring cites both statutes and “established…
