Immigration Archive » May, 2015

Immigration - May, 2015

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• A Busy Summer Ahead For Some H-1B Employers
• Texas AG Says Gay Marriage Rulings 'Mock' Judicial Process
• Record-Breaking Bias Fine Hints At Power Of E-Verify Info
• Let Immigrant Workers Be Heard In CIS Appeals, Groups Say
• Fired Md. CVS Manager Hits Pharmacy With Bias Suit
• NY Nail Salons Get Employment Makeover With Bill of Rights
• Guest Workers Hit Tobacco Farms With Wage Violation Suits
• NY Waxing Salons Accused Of Stiffing Workers On Wages
• 4 In-House Preferences For Better Outside Counsel
• BALCA Admits It Misread Email, Reverses Cert. Denial
• H-2A Workers Win On Joint Liability In Fruit Farm Wage Row
• Cuba Officially Dropped From Terrorism Supporter List
• NC Judges Must Perform Gay Marriages After Gov. Vetoes Bill
• USCIS Agrees To Pay NY Atty $47K In Fees To End FOIA Fight
• Q&A With Foster's Robert Loughran
• Groups Seeking Attys For Immigrant Kids Push For Cert.
• 9th Circ. Judge Slams 'Cruelty' Of US Immigration Law
• Immigrant Moms Denied Birth Docs For Citizen Kids: Suit
• 5th Circ. Will Hear Args. On Immigration Action Block July 10
• Adult Diaper Co. Wins Engineer Labor Cert. At BALCA
• Q&A With Thompson Coburn's Kelly Simon
• Chinese Mine Investors Say Feds Can't Halve Visa Suit
• Q&A With Maggio & Kattar's Elizabeth Quinn
• NY Farm Workers Forced To Sleep With Roaches, Suit Says
• 5th Circ. Dissent Targets Politics Of Obama Immigration Suit
• Fence Biz Fined For Unauthorized Workers After Ignoring ICE
• Obama Won't Take Executive Action Stay Fight To High Court
• Tech Workers Fight To Keep H-4 Work Rule Challenge Alive
• EEOC Sues Oilfield Co. After Worker Urinated On By Manager
• Contractor Settles INA Bias Claim With Largest-Ever Penalty
• Northwestern Escapes DACA Bias Class Action
• BIA Says Judge's Predictions Are Facts, Not Speculation
• Man Forced To Help Rebel Fighters Loses Asylum Bid
• Q&A With Buchanan Ingersoll's Christopher Thorn
• Q&A With Ogletree Deakins' Andrew Merrills
• 5th Circ. Takes Broad View Of Standing In Exec Action Fight
• Canada Extends New Immigrant Investor Application Window
• Palau Man Can Be Evicted From Mariana Islands: 9th Circ.
• High Court Passes On Immigrant Children's HHS Abuse Appeal
• USCIS Takes Too Long To Review Work Docs, Immigrants Say
• DUI In Ariz. Shouldn't Lead To Removal, High Court Hears
• 5 Considerations For Banks Eyeing EB-5 Bridge Lending
• Obama Loses 5th Circ. Bid To Lift Block On Immigration Action
• Ariz. Sheriff Wants Judge DQ'd From Traffic Stops Case
• DC Judge Won't Hit Brakes On New H-4 Visa Work Rule
• Q&A With Phillips Lytle's Rana Jazayerli
• Digging Through The New Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure
• 5 Insights From CBRE General Counsel Laurence Midler
• AAO Work Site Ruling Still Troubles Attys, Despite Guidance
• Ex-NBA Vet, Film Cos. Strike Back In $45M EB-5 Suit
• Immigration Judge Shortage Spawns Record Backlog
• Fast H-1B Extensions May Resume Before Late July
• 5th Circ. Should Hear Certain BIA Appeals, High Court Hears
• Bill Would Bar US Entry For Some Foreign Pregnant Women
• BALCA Denies Johns Hopkins Affiliate Visas For Home Aides
• AILA Says Gov't Withholding Docs In Immigration Judge Row
• 5th Circ. Backs 'Waved Through' Immigrant In Removal Row
• Q&A With Thompson Hine's Staci Jenkins
• Q&A With Squire Patton Boggs' Annabel Mace
• Ex-Circle K Manager Claims Firing Was Based On Nat'l Origin
• Ala. Court Tells Judges To Allow Same-Sex Marriage Statewide
• USCIS Clarifies Simeio Rule On H-1Bs For Relocated Workers
• Halt On Fast H-1B Extensions Could Have Spillover Effects
• Whole Foods Hit With National Origin Bias Suit
• Judge Gave Immigrant Bad Advice About Appeal: 9th Circ.
• Workers In $1.2M Wage Deal Say Visa Can Prove Employment
• Arpaio Calls Internal Probe Discovery Request Too Broad
• States Rip Issuance Of 2,000 Work Permits After Injunction
• Restaurant Owners Charged For Hiring Undocumented Workers
• Q&A With Steptoe & Johnson's Lynda Zengerle
• Q&A With Lindquist & Vennum's DeAnne Hilgers
• Chinese University Denies US Economic Espionage Charges
• Bill To Streamline FOIA Requests To DHS Clears House Panel
• Nigerian Man Pleads Guilty To Immigration Marriage Fraud
• Immigration Bill Roundup: Religious Workers & Taxes
• Citing Perez, Labor Judge Halts H-2B Enforcement Action
• Police Shouldn't Enforce Immigration Law, Task Force Says
• State Dept. Floats New US-Mexico Intern Program
• 8th Circ. OKs Limits To Jurisdiction Over Removal Decisions
• Q&A With Montgomery McCracken's Ralf Wiedemann
• Mexican Woman Takes Deportation Fight To High Court
• Q&A With K&L Gates' Ellen Freeman
• 2015 Law360 Minority Report
• 2nd Circ. Affirms Denial Of Ecuadorean Citizen's Petition
• CBP Defends FOIA Practices In Suit Over Slow Responses
• The 50 Best Firms For Minority Partners
• Diversity Gap A Growing Threat To BigLaw Bottom Lines
• The 100 Best Law Firms For Minority Attorneys
• Groups Seeking Attys For Migrant Kids Blast Bid To Hold Case
• USCIS To Halt Premium Processing For H-1B Extensions
• 5th Circ. Clarifies Standard For Derivative Citizenship
• DOJ Asks 5th Circ. To Deep-Six Executive Action Case
• DuPont Migrant Workers Drop Wage Suit
• Signal Tries To Keep Cross-Claims Alive In Trafficking Suits
• House Sends Anti-Human Trafficking Bill To Obama's Desk
• Q&A With Hunton & Williams' Ian Band
• Gov't Says 6 Chinese Nationals Schemed To Steal US Tech
• Q&A With Bell Nunnally's Karen-Lee Pollak
• BIA Says Waiver Can Apply To Fraudulent Status Adjustments
• ICE Detention May Be Credited To Criminal Sentence: 9th Circ.
• High Court Asked To Eye DHS Defense In Discrimination Suit
• Maricopa County Fights Addition To Traffic Stops Suit
• DOL Rolls Out New Rules For Practicing Before Admin Judges
• Golf Resort Says H-2B Workers' Class Cert. Bid Falls Short
• War Contractor Ordered To Pay $64K Over INA Violations
• USCIS Chief Takes Responsibility For Injunction Violation
• Q&A With Mayer Brown's Elizabeth Stern
• Construction Co. Hit With Nat'l Origin, OT Wage Class Action
• Q&A With Hogan Lovells' Juan Francisco Torres Landa
• Consider 5 Things Before Choosing An E-Discovery Provider
• ICE Seeks Toss Of ACLU's Suit Over Immigration Docs
• A Trade Debate 13 Years In The Making: What To Watch For
• Arrested Immigrants Can't Sue Border Agents, 5th Circ. Says
• LGBT Immigrants See High Detainment Rates, Report Finds
• Credit Card Info Counts As Consumer Report, DC Circ. Says
• No Written Signature Means No Work Cert. For NYC Teachers
• Bishops Say Baker Supports Puerto Rico's Gay Marriage Ban
• EOIR Denies 'Shenanigans' In Immigration Judge Doc Fight
• Summer Travel Tips For Passport And Visa Holders
• Tech Workers Push For Block On New H-4 Visa Work Rule
• Arpaio Attys Can Be Deposed In Stops Case, Judge Says
• Immigration Case Backlog Reaches Record High
• Call For Participants: Law360's Immigration Editorial Board
• House Passes $612B National Defense Authorization Act
• Q&A With Thompson & Knight's Marc Klein
• SD High Court Won't Release Official's Death Records
• Fla. Farm Workers' Race Bias Claims Survive Challenge
• L-1B Guidance Leaves Too Much Ambiguity, Group Says
• Gay Marriage Rulings' Stay Uncalled For, Texas Justices Told
• ICE Unveils New Family Detention Oversight Efforts
• House Cuts Disputed Immigrant Clause From Defense Bill
• Rep. Floats Bill To Ax Diversity Visa Program
• South Korean Couple Gets 2nd Chance In USCIS Visa Saga
• Immigration Status Won't Block Uptick In Nail Worker Suits
• Texas Church Gets Another Shot At Visa For Minister
• Insurer Says Firm Not Covered For Botched Visa Row
• Jackson Lewis Adds Ex-Fennemore Craig Immigration Atty
• Q&A With Honigman Miller's Meghan Covino
• Court-Appointed Experts — A Powerful But Rarely Used Tool
• Judge Wants Names From DOJ's Immigration Advisory Info
• 8th Circ. Won't Reopen Deportation Case After Friend's Death
• Senate Confirms Sally Yates As New DOJ No. 2
• Tobacco Farm Settles Claims It Stiffed Guest Workers
• DHS Isn't Tracking Prosecutorial Discretion Info, Report Says
• Q&A With Sidley Austin's Marketa Lindt
• 5th Circ. Told 2,000 Mistaken Work Permits Justify Injunction
• DHS Hit With FOIA Class Suit Over Immigration Docs
• House Panel OKs Bill Streamlining FOIA Requests To DHS
• Immigrant Workers Group Pushes For Sanctions In RICO Row
• 8th Circ. Urged To Bury H-2B Carnival Workers' Wage Row
• Q&A With Honigman Miller's Carol Friend
• Executive Director Of AILA To Retire This Summer
• Sens. Express Concern Over New Plan To Process DACA Apps
• Feds Want Chinese Mine Investors' Visa Suit Cut In Half
• 9th Circ. To Rehear Car Theft Deportation Case
• Bridging The H-1B 'Cap-Gap'
• DHS Urges Court To Chuck Suit Over New H-4 Work Rule
• BIA Reverses Stance, Loosens Inadmissibility Waiver Rule
• Tech Co. Says Foreign Worker's High Wages Nix FLSA Claim
• Q&A With Maggio & Kattar's Kimberley Robidoux
• AILA Bothered By New L-1B Adjudications Guidance
• EB-5 Program May Prove Fertile Ground For Lawsuits
• Auto Parts Co. Says Worker In Visa Suit Is Clearly An Exec
• DOJ Judge Revives Bid For Labor Cert. For 200 Farmworkers
• 5th Circ. Told Obama Abdicated Oath With Executive Actions
• BALCA Nixes Certification Denial For 45 Crawfish Workers
• Software Contractor To Pay $9M To Settle DOJ Charges
• Cuomo Orders Protections For Nail Salon Workers
• OPINION: The Finality Of A Final Removal Order
• Q&A With Davis & Kuelthau's Hugo Rojas
• Au Pair Suit Judge Recuses Self Over Relative's Law Firm Job
• Major Airlines Deny Conspiracy In Mexican Flight-Tax Suit
• 7 Key Moments To Preserve Objections At Jury Trials
• This Week In Congress: Blue Alert, Freedom Act, And TPA
• DOJ Settles Citizenship Bias Claim Against Data Entry Co.
• Karnes Women Denied Block On Hunger Strike Retaliation
• Gov't Admits To Violating Block On Immigration Actions
• Judge In Arpaio Contempt Probe Hit With DQ Motion
• Airline Janitors File Bias Suit Over 'No Spanish' Rule
• Texas Senate OKs Bill Over Immigration Enforcement Pact
• Q&A With Quarles & Brady's Grant Sovern
• Farms Say EEOC 'Muddying' Record In Worker Trafficking Suit
• Landscaper Reaches Deal With DOL Over H-2B Labor Abuses
• Springtime For Same-Sex Marriage, Joyous June To Come
• Karnes Detainees Lack Valid 1st Amendment Claims, Feds Say
• Obama Pushed Immigration Orders To Limit, White House Says
• Noncitizen Can Be Deported For Voting In Ignorance, BIA Says
• 3rd Circ. Says Asylum Decision Not Linked To Atty's Fraud
• Mexican Tech Worker Claims Data Co. Broke Hiring Promise
• 11th Circ. Won't Revive Venezuelan Media Mogul's $1B Suit
• EEOC H-2B Worker Bias Trial Against Signal Put On Hold
• Lynch Calls FISA Critical In Wake Of 2nd Circ. Ruling
• Supermarket Backs Down On Injunction In Visa Denial Suit
• ICE Detention Center Hits DOL With Suit Over Wage Hearing
• Q&A With Fox Rothschild's Robert Whitehill
• Q&A With Ice Miller's Christl Glier
• Law Firms Could Learn A Lot From The NFL Draft
• Senate Panel OKs Border Patrol Access To Federal Land
• Temp Firm Can't Revive Claims Against Workers, Citigroup
• Canadian Can't Fight Removal Order CBP Already Axed: Judge
• Republicans Oppose DACA Permit Holders Serving In Military
• 4 Clinton Plan Takeaways For Business Immigration Attys
• Berry Appleman Expands In Australia With Melbourne Office
• More Startups Seek E Visas, But Green Cards Remain Elusive
• Plaintiffs Seeking Attys For Immigrant Kids Denied Do-Over
• Woman Who Married To Stay In US Agrees To Plea Deal
• Q&A With Ice Miller's Jenifer Brown
• Q&A With Baker & McKenzie's Jennifer Partee
• Arpaio Exec. Action Suit May Help Spur High Court Review
• Man Shot In Crowd May Qualify For Asylum, 9th Circ. Finds
• DOL Extends Comment Period For New H-2A Herding Rule
• States Urge 5th Circ. To Keep Exec. Action Block In Place
• Homeland Security Facing Suit Over Investor Visa Denials
• EEOC Slams $1M Fee Request In Thai Worker Suit
• DOJ Fights Cert. Bid In Suit Over Attys For Immigrant Minors
• Q&A With Faegre Baker Daniels' Katrina Cooper
• Q&A With Baker & McKenzie's Shannon Donnelly
• Grocery Chain Demands Injunction In Visa Denial Suit
• Sauerkraut Co. Tries To Kibosh Migrant Worker Class Action
• Cravath Dodges Ex-Staffer's Suit Alleging Age, Sex Bias
• Tech Union Fires Back At DHS Over Standing In F-1 Visa Row
• Atty Says Signal's Cross-Claims Barred In Trafficking Suits
• ConAgra Faces Race Bias Suit From Nigerian-Born Employee
• DHS Pushes For Reconsideration Of Detention Injunction
• 6th Circ. Sides With DHS In Ex-Worker's Termination Suit
• Skeptical DC Circ. Weighs Standing In Arpaio Appeal
• Senator Asks DHS To Seek Out Unused H-2B Visas
• DOJ Wants 9th Circ. To Rule On Attys For Immigrant Minors
• Man Kidnapped By Al-Shabab Takes Asylum Bid To High Court
• Q&A With Taft Stettinius & Hollister's Antonia Mitroussia
• Q&A With Michael Best & Friedrich's Kelly Fortier
• High Court Asked To Mull Scope Of State Crimes Under INA
• DHS Head Asks For Key Reforms Of EB-5 Program
• DOJ Submits Sensitive White House Docs In Immigration Beef
• Trafficked Cubans Say Garnishment Only Hope Of Recovery
• A New Age For Employment Authorization Documents
• Immigration Attys Say DOJ Isn't Complying With FOIA Request
• EPA Chief Of Staff To Join ICE As Top Legal Adviser
• Ex-ICE Atty Disbarred Following 18-Year Bribery Sentence
• Transgender Woman From Guatemala Secures Asylum
• Q&A With Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's William Flynn III
• Migrant Workers Slam Farms' Bid To End Bias Class Suit
• Q&A With Haynes And Boone's Brent Huddleston