Researchers at the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a government-accountability project based at Syracuse University, announced recently that, as of the end of September, when fiscal year 2010 (FY10) came to a close, the case backlog facing U.S. immigration courts reached a record high of...
Thousands of non-citizens serve in the United States military each year, and serve with honor, many going on to become U.S. citizens. Some, however, mistakenly assume that their military service automatically confers American citizenship, an assumption that can cost them dearly if they get in...
Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez, one of the leading Congressional advocates for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) announced last week that he does not plan to enter the Chicago mayoral race, as had been widely predicted; instead, he plans to continue his campaign to seek a fundamental...
Moderate Republicans have been warning for months about the perils - to the GOP, anyway - of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that has become coin of the realm on the far Right of the party. Harsh words about illegal immigration and ongoing efforts to torpedo anything...
Amid all of the controversy along the southwestern border of the United States, there are occasional and surprising moments of uplift. CNN reported recently about a Brownsville, Texas woman - Eulalia Garcia Maturey, now 101 years old - who was brought to the United States...
Many of our readers participate in the popular, weekly MurthyChat, one of the free online services offered by the Murthy Law Firm. They may also search past chat transcripts for answers to their own questions. The chat reflects questions that are on the minds of...
The Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) recently addressed the meaning of the term "business day" in connection with the notice-of-filing requirement in PERM labor certification (LC) cases. In this decision, issued October 12, 2010, BALCA allowed consideration of weekends, as the petitioning employer...
Anyone who's seen a TV police drama knows the drill: a minute before the credits roll and cut to a commercial, the good guys arrest the bad guys, and recite the now-familiar Miranda warnings about the right to remain silent, that anything you say may...
Many industrialized nations are still shaking off the effects of the recent financial crisis, and keeping interest rates low in the hopes of stimulating business growth. Therein lies an opportunity for arbitrage. As the New York Times reports, many big investors are shipping money overseas...
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is an agency of the Justice Department that determines, through administrative hearings, whether people arrested for immigration violations should be removed from this country, or permitted to stay. To help individuals facing possible deportation (now referred to as...
