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Avoid Costly Mistakes Through Compliance with INA’s Anti-Discrimination Provisions
Introduction Since 2009, the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) has been increasing steadily its enforcement of the anti-discriminatory provisions under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Created by the Immigration...
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Federal Immigration Controlled Substance Considerations in the Age of State Marijuana Laws
Roger[1] is a native and citizen of Canada. His entire family resides in the United States and is in the process of adjusting to lawful permanent resident status. Roger also suffers from severe anxiety, and as a result, he received a doctor-prescribed medical marijuana card. Occasionally, he uses...
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Executive Action on Immigration: What Employers Can Expect
On November 20 and 21, President Obama announced his plan to use executive action to reform the U.S. immigration system, in response to years of gridlock in Congress and mounting pressure from immigration advocacy groups. The principal focus of the anticipated reforms is relief for an estimated 4...
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Emphasis on Compliance and SEC Interagency Cooperation a Year After the Appointment of Chief Nicholas Colucci to the USCIS Immigrant Investor Program (EB-5)
After more than one year of service by Chief Nicholas Colucci of the Immigrant Investor Program (“EB-5”) at U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”), there is a clear shift in favor of increased compliance efforts and interagency cooperation, including...
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Private Bar Helps Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
The United States is facing an unprecedented refugee crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, with the arrival in recent months of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America. In a White House briefing on August 6, 2014, Vice President Joe Biden and other senior government officials...
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J-1 Foreign Exchange Visitor Program: New Burdens
When the amended Foreign Exchange Visitor Program regulations take effect in early January 2015, all organizations that act as sponsors or host organizations will have new obligations. Recently, highly publicized incidents have exposed some organizations’ misuse of the exchange program....
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The O-1 Visa: Not Just For Artists Anymore
For employers increasingly frustrated by the acute shortage of H-1B visas – as witnessed by the breathless exhaustion of the FY 2015 quota this past April – not all hope is lost. The O-1 visa for extraordinary ability presents a valuable option for bringing in high-level...
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