The Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals today decided to uphold restrictions against the implementation of sections of S.B. 1070, including the most controversial - the one that would force law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of all persons they "suspect" to be unlawfully present in ... Read more
The total number of people over the age of 18 who became U.S. citizens in fiscal year 2010 was 619,913. According to the Bureau of Immigration Data, of that number, people from Mexico performed the largest number of naturalizations in the U.S. One notable thing about the recently released report is that there has been a large ... Read more
Beginning tomorrow, April 1, applications for H-1B visas for fiscal year 2012 will begin to be accepted. The number of visas available is 65,000. This number does not include the first 20,000 petitions submitted on behalf of individuals who hold graduate degrees obtained in the U.S. The acceptance date for H-1B visas is April 1, ... Read more
Immigration authorities on Monday hinted that decisions on immigration cases involving same-sex couples would be postponed. But today, a spokesman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) told reporters that after a legal review by Department of Homeland Security attorneys, it was concluded that the law prohibiting gay and lesbian couples from ... Read more
What happened to Emily Ruiz - a U.S. citizen - is a real shame. The 4-year-old girl was on a flight from Guatemala to New York, which due to inclement weather, was diverted to Washington, D.C. Upon landing, the grandfather was denied entry by customs agents because he had on his ... Read more
Salvadoran immigrants covered by Temporary Protected Status (TPS) continue to not receive Employment Authorization Documents from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), putting them in a precarious situation. In some cases harming them, preventing them from applying for or remaining in their jobs, or having ... Read more
Constantine Peter Kallas, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prosecutor, was sentenced Monday to 17 years and six months in prison for receiving half a million dollars in bribes from undocumented immigrants, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The former ICE official faced a total of 36 counts of ... Read more
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) announced that it has made revisions to its vehicle impoundment protocols during sobriety checkpoint operations. Now, individuals identified by police as driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI) who do not have a driver's license will be given the opportunity to stop their vehicles and ... Read more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported today that it sent approximately 4,500 provisional Employment Authorization Documents to Salvadorans under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) while their applications for TPS re-registration are being processed and a final decision is being made. Beneficiaries should receive the provisional documents ... Read more
Scammers posing as U.S. government representatives are sending fraudulent emails and letters to applicants for the Diversity Visa program, known as the "visa lottery". These emails and letters tell people that they are winners of a diversity visa, but they are a scam intended to trick them into buying a ... Read more
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