Proposed Asylum Rules An Attack on the Most Vulnerable Asylum Seekers A recent proposed change to our asylum rules threatens to undo protections to some of our most vulnerable migrants: asylum seekers. Asylum has been a major part of our country’s humanitarian immigration mission since World War II. The modern asylum system emerged out of […]
The story seemed like something out of fiction: Our client married her current husband but the couple broke up, while never officially divorcing. Our client’s spouse then remarried and filed for visa at the consulate. He claimed that our client, his ex-wife, had died and presented a fake death certificate, in order to immigrate to […]
The final rule also creates facts that could be categorized as negative or positive factors, heavily weighted negative and heavily weighted positive factors with the implication being that heavily weighted positive or heavily weighted negative factor have greater effect on alien application for extension of stay or adjustment of status. DHS, however, would consider the […]
The US H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ college graduate level workers in “specialty occupations.” Currently, the H-1B visa has an annual numerical limit “cap” of 65,000 visas each fiscal year, with additional 20,000 for beneficiaries with a U.S. master’s degree or higher. However, starting April 1, 2019 DHS […]