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Immigration News Flashes - 2006

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December

December 22, 2006   Worried About Maxing Out? Good News from USCIS!
 
December 13, 2006   ICE Agents Put a Chill on Meat Processors
 
December 7, 2006   H-2B Cap Reached for the First Half of the Fiscal Year for 2007
 
December 1, 2006   WHITI...Set...Go!  (Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative)
     

November

November 29, 2006   A Step Towards Integration in South America?
 
November 29, 2006   New Citizenship Test Questions Proposed: Pilot Test Winter 2006-2007
November 28, 2006   Lame Duck Congress May Defer Appropriations
 
November 9, 2006   2006 Election Overview--A Look Ahead to the 110th Congress
     

October

October 23, 2006   Federal Register Notice of DOL Extension of RIR Conversion
 
October 20, 2006   New USCIS Digitization Facilities in Williamsburg, KY
 
October 20, 2006   New Proposed Rule Introducing the Passport Card
 
October 20, 2006   Push for H-1B and Employment Based Relief During Lame Duck Session
 
October 12, 2006   The Holidays are Fast Approaching: Remember to Obtain Advance Parole
 
October 12, 2006   Robert C. Divine to Step Down as USCIS' Chief Counsel
 
October 12, 2006   The Nebraska Service Center Accepts Concurrent Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker (I-140)/Adjustment of Status Application (I-485) Filings for Premium Processing
 
October 2006   The Stakes are Raised at the Table: ICE Increases Enforcement Efforts Will Bad Actor Employers Fold?
 
     

September

September 18, 2006   USCIS Achieves Significant Naturalization Backlog Elimination
 
     

August

August 30, 2006   New U.S. e-Passport and Emergency Photo-digital Passport
 
August 23, 2006   Define "Reasonable:" How Practical are Department of Homeland Security's Proposed Amended Worksite Enforcement Regulations
 
August 21, 2006   Premium Processing Services Extended to Two New Classifications
 
     

July 2006

July 28, 2006   It's Over... The H1B U.S. Graduate Cap Is Reached
 
July 28, 2006   U.S. IRS Commissioner Addresses Tax Issues of Senate-Passed Bill (S. 2611)
 
July 26, 2006   The Latest on the H1-B Cap
 
July 26, 2006   10,000 Participate in Employment Verification Program
 
July 26, 2006   DHS Issues Best Business Practices For U.S. Employers
 
July 14, 2006   Certain Non-Machine Readable Passports Entering on Visa Waiver Eligible for Parole
 
July 14, 2006   Cap Count For U.S. Master's Degree Applicants
 
July 11, 2006   USCIS Publishes a Final Rule on Affidavits of Support (Form I-864)
 
July 11, 2006   Three H-1Bs to be Revoked
     

June 2006

June 30, 2006   Update on PERM
 
June 30, 2006   Backlog Elimination - Will the Department of Labor Meet its September 2007 Goal?
 
June 30, 2006   The End of Concurrent Filing?
 
June 27, 2006   Further Retrogression for Employment-Based Immigrant Visas Anticipated
 
June 21, 2006   House Tactics to Delay Comprehensive Immigration Reform
 
June 9, 2006   Department of Homeland Security Announces the Proposal of Two Federal Regulations Aimed at Improving Worksite Enforcement
 
June 5, 2006   H1b Cap Reached
     

May 2006

May 26, 2006   The Latest on the H1B Cap
 
May 26, 2006   Senate Passes Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill
 
May 25, 2006   The Latest on the H1B Cap
 
May 23, 2006   Update on Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006
 
May 19, 2006   Legislative Update from the Halls of Congress May 19, 2006
 
May 19, 2006   Electronic Signature and Storage of Form I-9
 
May 19, 2006   USCIS Current Cap Count for Non-Immigrant Worker Visas
 
May 10, 2006   ICE Continues its Enforcement Operations: Supervisors and Undocumented Aliens Arrested in Kentucky
 
May 9, 2006   Senate to Take Up Immigration Beginning Monday, May 15
     

April 2006

April 28, 2006   White House Issues Fact Sheet on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
 
April 28, 2006   ICE Sweeps Continue
 
April 28, 2006   USCIS Issues Security Clearance Fact Sheet
 
April 28, 2006   Likely Change in the Calculation of H1B Periods of Stay in the U.S.
 
April 27, 2006   Assistant Secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tells Employers to Expect More Arrests
 
April 25, 2006   Don't Forget About the Fix We Need For the H-1B
 
April 19, 2006   e-Passport Testing Completed in Anticipation of October 26th Deadline
 
April 18, 2006   USCIS Issues First H-1B Cap Report for FY2007
 
April 7, 2006   Immigration Impasse- April 7, 2006
 
April 7, 2006   H-2B Cap Reached on April 4, 2006 for Second Half of Fiscal Year 2006
 
April 5, 2006   Another snag in Immigration Reform?
     

March 2006

March 30, 2006   Exciting News From Capitol Hill: Overview of the Bill Passed Out of the Senate Judiciary Committee 3/27/2006
 
March 28, 2006   GT Commends Chairman Specter and Judiciary Committee Members for Passing a Bill Out of Committee
 
March 27, 2006   USCIS Prepares to Implement its Bi-Specialization Program
 
March 27, 2006   Immigration Legislation Update for March 27, 2006
 
March 17, 2006   The Senate Judiciary Committee Update
 
March 13, 2006   H-1B Quota for FY07 to open on April 1, 2006
 
March 10, 2006   Immigration Reform and the "Mark"
 
March 9, 2006   Local Office Procedures for Some Naturalization Cases
 
March 4, 2006   Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006
 
March 3, 2006   DOL Addresses the PERM Process: Labor Certification Applications
     

February 2006

February 27, 2006   United States Department of State Begins Issuance of Electronic Passports
 
February 27, 2006   Moving Towards Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation
 
February 15, 2006   DOL Proposal to Eliminate Substitutions/Imposition of 45-Day Deadline for Filing I-140s
 
February 3, 2006   The Presidents American Competitiveness Initiative and Call to Increase the H-1B Cap
 
February 1, 2006   Reaction to the State of the Union: The Business Community Stands Ready to Work Collaboratively with the Administration on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
     

January 2006

January 20, 2006   H-1B Cap Reached on January 17, 2006 for 20,000 Degree Exemption Cases
 
January 17, 2006   H-1B Cap Approaching for Advanced Degree Professionals
 
January 13, 2006   DHS to Begin Testing of Electronic Passports
 
January 13, 2006   February 2006 Visa Bulletin Released
     

 

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