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Immigration News Flashes - 2008
October 2008
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September 30 |
ICE Announces New SEVP Fee
Structure |
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| September 30 | 2010 Diversity Visa Lottery
Begins October 12th |
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| September 30 | USCIS Offers Guidance for
Those with Late-Pending EADs |
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| September 22 | The Consideration Rule: The
DOL Addresses Audits |
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| September 17 | Arizona State Law and the
Ninth Circuit |
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| September 16 | Legislative Update - House
Judiciary Committee Marking Up Four Immigration Bills |
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| September 12 | Update on FBI Name Checks
and Naturalization Processing |
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| September 8 | New Citizenship Test to
Begin October 1, 2008 |
| August 18 | USCIS Updates Projected
Naturalization Processing Times |
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| August 11 | USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for
First Half of FY 2009 |
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| August 11 | USCIS Adds Required
Vaccinations for Applicants to Adjust Status to become
Legal Permanent Residents |
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| August 11 | USCIS Informs the Public
that New Passport Card is Acceptable for Employment
Eligibility Verification |
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| August 11 | Bill Proposed to Recapture
Immigrant Visas Lost Due to Bureaucratic Delays |
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June 30 |
USCIS is Now Accepting
Premium Processing Requests for Certain Form I-140
Petitions |
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June 25 |
Employer Arrests May Follow
the Houston Worksite Raid |
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| June 25 | USCIS to Issue Two-Year
EADs to Certain Adjustment of Status Applicants starting
June 30, 2008 |
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| June 24 | Executive Order FAQs for
Federal Contractors |
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| June 17 | USCIS Announces all FY 2009
H-1B Cap Petitions Have Been Selected |
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| June 10 | July Visa Bulletin Shows No
Movement for EB-2 Categories and Unavailability in EB-3
Categories |
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June 6 |
Federal Contractors Will Be
Required to Use E-Verify |
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June 5 |
Updates on Oklahoma's Use
of E-Verify |
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| June 2 | USCIS Provides I-9
Compliance Guidance for F-1s with STEM & Cap Gap
Authorization |
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| June 2 | Boutique Immigration Law
Firm Targeted for U.S. DOL PERM Audits |
| May 30 | Department of Labor
Proposal to Modify H-2B Program |
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May 16 |
Updates to E-Verify |
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May 16 |
USCIS Proposes Rule to
Extend TN Status to Three Years |
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| May16 | Possible New P-4 Visa for
Fashion Models |
| April 30 | Arizona Governor Vetoes
§287(g) Measure Citing a $100 Million Price Tag |
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April 30 |
USCIS Updates the
Application for Employment Authorization |
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| April 16 | Employers Take Note: ICE
Raids Conducted Today Across the Nation |
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| April 16 | Lottery Selection for FY09
H-1B Cap Completed |
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| April 11 | USCIS Announces Number of
FY 2009 H-1B Cap Filings Received |
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| April 11 | The Governor of Rhode
Island Imposes New Employment Verification Requirements
for State Contractors |
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| April 11 | Changes in Procedures for
Reentry Permits |
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| April 11 | Arizona in the Headlines
Once Again- Is a State Guest Worker Possible? |
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| April 8 | DHS Fixes the Cap Gap -- A
New Era Begins? |
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| April 8 | H-1B Cap Reached for Fiscal
Year 2009 |
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| April 8 | Cap Gap - Status & Work
Authorization Extensions for F-1 Students |
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| April 4 | USCIS and FBI Release Joint Plan to Eliminate Backlog of FBI Name Checks |
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March 18 |
April Visa Bulletin Shows
Availability for EB-2 India Category and Significant
Movement in EB-3 Mexico, Philippines and Worldwide
Categories |
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March 18 |
Estonia and Latvia to Join
U.S. Visa Waiver Program |
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| March 13 | Congress Set to Repeal Ban
on HIV Positive Immigrants |
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| March 10 | Applying for Re-Entry
Permits and Refugee Travel Documents? Biometrics Needed! |
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| March 10 | New Instructions for
Medical Exams Conducted Outside the U.S. |
| February 26 | DHS and DOJ Announce
Increase in Employer Fines |
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| February 19 | USCIS Consolidates
Biometrics Appointment Letter Into One Notice
for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applicants |
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| February 19 | US Department of Homeland
Security Announces 6.8 percent budget increase for FY
2009 |
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| February 11 | USCIS Takes Steps to
Alleviate Adjudicatory Delays Predicated on FBI Name
Checks |
| January 28 | DOL Issues Report on H-2A
and H-2B Program |
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January 16 |
Passport Requirement for
Canada and Mexico Delayed |
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January 16 |
New 10-Fingerprint
Collection Implemented at U.S. Airports
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January 16 |
Judge Supports Arizona
Immigration Law
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| January 14 | USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for
Second Half of Fiscal Year 2008 |
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| January 8 | Documenting Timely
Departures from the U.S. |
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| January 2 | Schengen Area Expansion |
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| January 2 | Update Regarding USCIS
Intention to Require that All Permanent Resident Cards
Without Expiration Dates be Replaced |
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| January 2 | New U.S. Department of State Regulations on Sanctions and Terminations for Violations of Exchange Visitor Programs |
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