On March 7, the Baltimore Business Journal held its first annual Outstanding Director Awards gala, amid the elegantly understated splendor of the Four Seasons in Baltimore. Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela Murthy, was among a select group to be honored for their outstanding...
Attorneys at the Murthy Law Firm as well as Murthy Immigration Services, Pvt. Ltd. (MISPL) in India, are often contacted by visa applicants following denials resulting from applicants having been found ineligible due to fraud or misrepresentation. The section of law that covers fraud related...
In the last major push for immigration reform, there were rallies and street marches, complete with songs and speeches, noisemakers and signs held high. For all the energy that went into these, none of it was enough to change the final result. Now a new...
As of March 4, 2013, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) implemented a new procedure for requesting a provisional waiver of the three- and ten-year unlawful presence inadmissibility bars. The new procedure is available only to the spouses, child/ren or parents U.S. citizens. As...
Congress may not have intended it, but this was hardly unforeseeable: immigration policy has been swept up in the federal budget impasse.The sequester - those massive across-the-board budget cuts that took effect earlier this month - was never supposed to happen. Congress designed this as...
The U.S. government budget cuts, known as sequestration, have dominated news reports in recent weeks. The cuts began on March 1, 2013, and many questions remain as to the impact on government operations and services. This summary of the available information from the U.S. Department...
The renewed push for comprehensive immigration reform has called attention to the sorry state of our STEM visa policy, which makes it harder than it should be for the United States to attract and retain the best and brightest scientists, doctors, programmers, and engineers from...
It's often said that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions. Given the political machinations surrounding immigration reform, some observers might be tempted to add a corollary: that even the best-intended legislation is no match for misinformed or deliberately tendentious debate.According to journalist...
In late 2011 and early 2012, numerous foreign nationals reached a point in the immigration journey where they became eligible to apply for the employment authorization document (EAD) and advance parole (AP). Many of our readers are now filing requests to renew their EADs and...
Though much of the immigration debate has centered on issues like STEM visa reform and what to do about 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living here, legal immigration of low-skilled workers remains a significant concern for businesses, organized labor, and many politicians on Capitol Hill....
