by Kyle Knapp | Nov 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
The current administration is trying to derail employers’ talent acquisition efforts. The CATO Institute last week reported its analysis of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ current fiscal year immigration applications and petitions adjudications. Not...
by Kyle Knapp | Oct 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published proposed new rules this month that could alter the landscape for family-based immigrants. As most immigrants who applied for green cards through a family member will recall, the process requires having a sponsor. The...
by Kyle Knapp | Sep 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
On June 28, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released a policy memorandum that effectively transforms the current “services” division of Homeland Security into an enforcement agency. The new policy, which goes into effect next Monday, is to issue a...
by Kyle Knapp | Aug 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Spending a week helping women and children navigate the asylum process reminded me why I became an attorney: to help those in need with complex legal issues. Representing clients in a detention facility allowed me to take my compassion and expertise to them. They...
by Kyle Knapp | Jul 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been a tear with worksite investigations and enforcement actions. Since January 2018, HSI has served more than 5,200 notices on businesses to conduct audits of their I-9...
by Kyle Knapp | Jul 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
It seems that there is no end to announcements from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that present new challenges for those who have been playing by the rules. The current administration’s Buy American, Hire American Executive Order from April 18, 2017...
by Kyle Knapp | Jun 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Until recently, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) allowed applicants for Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) to contact USCIS after 75 days to initiate a service request if they had not received their EAD. Following updates to the USCIS...
by Kyle Knapp | Apr 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
An April 4, 2018 letter from USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna to Senator Charles Grassley came to light this week. Director Cissna responds to the White House’s “Buy American and Hire American” Executive Oder from April 18, 2017, which called for agency heads to...
by Kyle Knapp | Apr 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services reported this week that it received 190,098 petitions for the next fiscal year’s H-1B quota of 85,000. USCIS completed the random selection process, i.e. lottery, and soon will be sending out notices for the petitions...
by Kyle Knapp | Mar 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Despite the need U.S. employers have for qualified workers, the Trump administration continues to increase its scrutiny of H-1B petitions through a new Policy Memorandum concerning H-1B workers assigned to third-party locations. Last year the focus was on...
