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 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) this morning announced that starting today, users will have access to the E-Verify self-verification service. This service will allow people in the United States to verify whether their status allows them to work legally before ... 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
Effective March 15, 2011 all address changes (Form AR-11) and permanent resident address changes (AR-11 SR) must be mailed to a new location. This is the new address: DHS/USCIS Harrisonburg File Storage Facility Attn: AR-11 1344 Pleasants Drive Harrisonburg, VA 22801 If you mail one of these forms to the site ... Read more
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has begun issuing new employment and travel authorization cards in one document. These new cards are only issued to certain individuals who have filed Applications to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, i.e., the "green card", which ... Read more
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) warned that a series of problems in the issuance of employment authorization cards is hurting Hondurans and Nicaraguans under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and will continue to affect Salvadorans under TPS as well ... Read more
Yesterday I participated in a conference call hosted by Alejandro Mayorkas, the Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). During this telephone meeting, which was attended by stakeholders from across the country, Mr. Mayorkas outlined what the priorities and goals of USCIS will be during 2011. The ... Read more
The number of petitions for H-1B visas has reached the statutory limit for fiscal year 2011. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that Wednesday, January 26, 2011 was the deadline to receive petitions for H-1B visas, which allow U.S. employers to temporarily hire U.S. workers to work in the U.S. in the U.S. for the first ... Read more
During the last months of 2010, I exposed a series of problems that several immigrants under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) were experiencing. Among them, employment discrimination. In the following videos I explain how employers should act to avoid discriminatory practices. youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZXTXnsUVpU] [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9unD4TcHu8] [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9unD4TcHu8]
Santos Delacruz Hernandez, who was illegally fired by his company, returned to work today. Thanks to my intervention and the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. Hernandez was reinstated to his job. I especially want to thank attorney Jennifer Sultan and investigator Sergio Esquivel of the Department of Justice for all of their ... Read more
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