Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the possibility that the House might take up some form of immigration reform legislation when the storm clears from the fiscal and budget crises that began earlier this month. Ever since the Senate...
As a result of the U.S. federal government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is temporarily not accepting or processing prevailing wage requests. A prevailing wage determination (PWD) is generally a required component at the outset of the PERM labor certification process that is used...
... and obtain authorization to drop below the full course load in the last semester if I do not need to be enrolled full time in order to graduate. I plan to move in with my sister who lives in a different state during my...
There's something downright gothic about the current state of immigration reform. Perhaps it's the season - Halloween is just a few weeks off - but CIR is looking more and more "undead" these days, a creature of the same twilight realm as zombies and vampires:...
The backlog of cases currently pending in U.S. Immigration Courts has been growing steadily in recent years, according to statistics from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a government watchdog organization based at Syracuse University. Eleven months into fiscal year (FY) 2013 that ended September...
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently released two documents addressing the discretionary authority of CBP officers to overlook certain technical or minor background issues that would otherwise make a foreign national inadmissible to the United States. The two documents give insight into those...
Murthy and Five Former Ambassadors: Senate IT-Contracting Language Must Go!Years of legislative inertia have held back even the simplest of immigration reforms in Congress, so we were greatly cheered in June 2013 when the U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill - not least because...
As has been widely reported in the media, the U.S. government temporarily ceased operations deemed non-essential as of October 1, 2013. This is a result of the failure of the U.S. Congress to agree on a new budget for federal operations. Many normal government functions...
The U.S. government is in a state of partial shutdown as of October 1, 2013 due to an inability to obtain congressional agreement on appropriations. As of October 1st, the Department of Labor iCert system is unavailable. This system is used for both PERM labor...
... I was seven months pregnant and, due to complications, had to be on bed rest for a few weeks. After that I had my baby and am only now starting to contact prospective employers again. Will the 90-day unemployment limitation apply to me even...
