by Kyle Knapp | Jun 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
When President Biden signed an executive order on February 2, 2021, “Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration System and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americas,” I decided to take the bated breath approach to see what actually happened. I...
by Kyle Knapp | May 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
In his latest book, Humankind, A Hopeful History, Rutger Bregman explores the question of whether people truly are good. Do we mean well? Or are we always on the tipping point of doing evil? His book title clearly gives away his position. In examining one historical...
by Kyle Knapp | Apr 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Now that most of the Trump era visa bans have been lifted, one would think that it’s back to business as usual. If only. Two major challenges that continue are the restriction on persons who have been in certain countries in the two weeks before their planned travel...
by Kyle Knapp | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Just when it appeared that President Biden was beginning to right the ship on immigration, his new Secretary of State reversed course acted like the captain of the Titanic. When former President Trump announced a travel ban last year for persons who had been in...
by Kyle Knapp | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
In March 2019 USCIS began requiring “biometrics” (fingerprints and a photo taken at a local immigration office) for applications to change and/or extend nonimmigrant status. Common examples are a B-2 visitor for pleasure who wants to remain in the U.S. longer or an...
by Kyle Knapp | Jan 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
In a last-minute rush, the outgoing Trump administration crammed through two new rules. The first is a new version of the prevailing wage rule from October 2020 that a court set aside. The second is a rule to reconfigure the allocation of H-1B visas in the annual...
by Kyle Knapp | Dec 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the last few months there has been an increase in the guessing game of wondering what will come out of Washington. Not knowing what to expect from the Trump administration and the Friday afternoon bombshells became the norm in the last four years. Now we’re waiting...
by Kyle Knapp | Nov 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
If only Uncle Joe could wave a magic wand and make four years of horrible immigration policy and practice go away, the United States would be in a much better place. Major policy shifts will take some time to unwind and correct. The low hanging fruit, however, is the...
by Kyle Knapp | Oct 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
While the world optimistically hopes for a Biden victory, the Trump administration’s concern over polling numbers has the swan song lyricists working in high gear. The targets this time are prevailing wages for H-1B visa and green card sponsorship and the H-1B program...
by Kyle Knapp | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
As we inch ever closer to a very important election day, I thought a refresher on Comprehensive Immigration Reform (or “CIR”) would be helpful when reading candidate statements and viewing debates. Broadly speaking there are three key areas to CIR: Secure the border,...
