Q: Why is DHS implementing air travel in stages? On January 8, 2016, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced the following timetable for the implementation of the REAL ID Act for air travel: Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security will conduct outreach to educate the traveling public about the timeline below, and continue engagements with states to encourage compliance with REAL ID standards. Starting July 15, 2016, TSA, in coordination with airlines and airport stakeholders, will begin to issue web-based advisories and notifications to the traveling public. Starting December 15, 2016, TSA will expand outreach at its airport checkpoints...
Monday May 23, 2016 marks the 68th day since Judge Merrick Garland was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, drawing him equal with the average time to confirmation for recent high court nominees. The White House on Friday again urged senators to consider the judge’s nomination.
Nearly two years after a judge decided he wasn’t an American citizen, a Texas man has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing it is up to a state, not the federal government, to determine who was born inside its boundaries.
A TRAC report found that Immigration Court judges issued 44,204 removal orders as of April 2016. Texas leads the nation with 10,102 removal orders issued, followed by California and Georgia. During April 2016, 1,186 of the 6,347 individuals ordered removed were women with children.
As of May 18, 2016, the U.S. Embassy in Caracas is no longer able to provide new appointments for first-time business or tourist visa applicants. There will be limited visa appointments for visa renewals and for first-time applicants for any petition-based, student, or investor visas, but wait times for the appointments will be longer than in the past, due to staffing shortages arising from the refusal of the Venezuelan government to issue visas for U.S. Embassy personnel.
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday (May 19,2016) upheld a district court’s finding that a Border Patrol agent who fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old U.S. citizen in the back while he was running away was entitled to qualified immunity, saying the officer’s use of deadly force was objectively reasonable in the circumstances.
From: U.S. Department of Justice [mailto:usdoj@public.govdelivery.com] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 4:47 PM To: Subject: OSC Electronic Charge Form Dear Stakeholders: The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) is pleased to announce that members of the public can now complete and submit charge forms online through OSC’s website, in addition to the methods currently available (mail, fax, or email). At this time, we are rolling out the electronic charge form in English and Spanish, and will be adding additional languages in the near future. If you have any questions or if you suspect employment discrimination, we...
LOS ANGELES – A former official with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who went on to operate an immigration consulting service, has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for participating in a scheme to pay bribes to other government employees to obtain “green cards” and citizenship for immigrants. George Wu, 63, of Pico Rivera, who worked as a CBP officer until early 2012, and then operated Great Eastern Immigration Services, was sentenced late Thursday by U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald. The case is the result of a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security...
An investor has launched a putative class action against brokerage firm Raymond James and a fund manager related to the alleged fraudulent scheme involving the Jay Peak ski resort in Vermont, seeking to recover at least $71.5 million that was invested during a phase of the EB-5 immigrant investor program that was allegedly misused and stolen.
Slightly more than 1 million of the 8.7 million people who became insured during the first full year of the Affordable Care Act were noncitizens, according to a New York Times analysis of data from 2014 enrollment. Hispanics represented the largest share of any racial or ethnic group insured through the new law, and made up 60 percent of newly insured noncitizens. More than 15 million previously uninsured people have gained health coverage since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Unauthorized immigrants are ineligible for enrollment. New York Times analysis of the Affordable Care Act in its first year U.S. Department of...
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