The second travel ban executive order, expected to take effect today has been halted, by two federal courts in Hawaii and Maryland. Trump had recrafted the travel ban to exclude Permanent Residents and US Citizens, originally hailing from the seven…
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USCIS Announces Suspension of H-1B Petition Premium Processing
In a surprise announcement on March 3, 2017, USCIS advised that it will suspend its premium processing service for all H-1B petitions starting April 3, 2017. April 3, 2017 is the earliest date that U.S. employers can file cap subject…
No Premium Processing for H-1B
From April 3rd, 2017, the Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS) will NOT accept any Premium Processing for H-1B. That means no new H-1Bs can be filed in premium. Due to the fact that most H-1Bs are filed in Premium these…
Trump’s Immigration Enforcement
I do not do removals (Deportation) and thus I do not have any financial stake in Trump’s massive deportation project. I do not object to a President enforcing a law, whatever it is. My objections are entirely based upon my…
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds TRO against President Trump’s January 27, 2017 executive order
On February 9, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a temporary restraining order (TRO) against President Trump’s January 27 executive order preventing travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. President Trump’s…
USCIS sets out new standard for National Interest Waiver petitions
In a recent decision by the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the AAO set out a new standard to adjudicate National Interest Waiver (NIW) employment based immigrant visa petitions. As background, an employment…
National Security
The 9th Circuit today, in an unanimous decision, indefinitely stayed the Executive Order banning individuals from the 7 Muslim countries. The broadly written order, called by Mr. Trump as “Beautifully written….which even a bad high school student would understand”, banned…
Tagged with: Banerjee Associates, Executive Order, France, ISIS, Maybe Trump, New York Times, Saudi Arabia
Travel Ban take 2
No Current Plans to Expand Travel Ban Beyond Current Countries (Updated February 2, 2017) We have been hearing rumors that no one is allowed to get into the plane in Karachi, Pakistan. There are also rumors that other countries will…
Tagged with: AILA, American Immigration Lawyer, Banerjee Associates, DOS, Executive Order, Venezuela, Yemen
Travel in these Uncertain times
We recommend that all non immigrants refrain from leisure travel outside the US for the next 90 days For the next 90 days, nearly all travelers, except U.S. citizens, traveling on passports from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and…
New National Interest Waiver Test
Immigration law is a field where hardly anything new ever happens. Yet during the last days the Obama Presidency, there was a case that clarified National Interest Waivers (NIWs) Just like bad facts make bad law, good facts make good…
Tagged with: Banerjee Associates, Dhanasar Local, NIW, NYSDOT, Obama Presidency, Rocket Propulsion, US
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