To prevent secure document tampering, counterfeiting, and fraud, USCIS will begin producing on Oct. 24, 2019 a new security-enhanced U.S. travel document, which is a booklet that looks similar to a U.S. passport and serves dual purposes. The new travel document will include a variety of secure features: Redesigned booklet cover Four montages containing three…

On Tuesday , October 29, 2019, U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced legislation requiring the government to have reasonable suspicion or probable cause to search or seize Americans’ electronic devices at the border. Currently at the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can search through a traveler’s electronic devices without any…

In an unprecedented transatlantic air transport deportation this month ( October 2019) Mexico deported 310 Indian nationals to New Delhi according to the National Migration Institute (INM). INM said the deportees had been scattered in eight states around Mexico, including in southern Mexico from where many Indian migrants enter the country, hoping to transit to…

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and U.S. Ambassador Ronald Douglas Johnson announced on Monday, October 28, 2019, that the United States government will extend temporary protected status for more than 200,000 Salvadorans living in the U.S. The program allows Salvadorans to stay in the U.S. and avoid deportation proceedings and allows them to get work…

Our law office is currently looking to hire a full-time immigration attorney. The job description is found below: Research legal issues and provide advice and representation before EOIR courts and USCIS offices. Case management of family-based and employment-based residency applications and petitions. Non-immigrant work visas and other temporary visas, waivers of inadmissibility, DACA, VAWA. Must…

A Texas federal judge issued a ruling on Friday, October 11, 2019, blocking the Trump administration from diverting $8.1 billion in federal funds to build a wall along the U.S. Mexico border. The federal judge indicated that President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the border is unlawful.

On Friday, October 11, 2019, a New York federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a rule that would penalize immigrants for using public assistance programs, including housing subsidies and health benefits.

A presidential proclamation published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on September 30,2019 suspended the immigrant or nonimmigrant entry into the United States of individuals connected with the Maduro government in Venezuela, certain officers of the Venezuelan military and police, all members of the organization known as the National Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, individuals who act on…

U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on September 27, 2019 granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction and issued an order blocking DHS from implementing the July 23, 2019, Federal Register notice that expanded expedited removal to many individuals who are in the interior of the United States or have been in the United…

The EB-5 Regional Center Program, which was due to sunset (expire) on September 30, 2019, has been extended through November 21, 2019. A Continuing Resolution was passed by Congress on September 28, 2019 and signed by the President extending the funding of the federal government to prevent a government shutdown. The resolution includes language to…