The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona regarding the state's controversial immigration law. The lawsuit was filed July 6, 2010 in the U.S. District Court, Phoenix, Arizona, and is based on the doctrine of the "preemption" of federal law...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) held an open forum at the 2010 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Annual Conference. This open forum included a summary by the DOL regarding immigration-related filings. The key points of the DOL summary are explained here for the benefit...
Eight GOP Senators have written to President Obama seeking assurance that the White House will not take executive action to "unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States," in response to - perhaps in hopes of spreading...
As we have noted previously for MurthyBlog readers, the immigration debate is only as good as the information that goes into it. Some misconceptions, even outright fabrications, have gained a veneer of respectability by dint of sheer repetition. One piece of popular mythology holds that...
A suggestion recently came to the Murthy Law Firm from a reader who plans to visit Arizona in the near future. We were asked to provide hints and guidance for foreign nationals planning travel to Arizona, in light of the controversial new law there that...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) issued an interim final rule on June 28, 2010 amending the fee schedule for consular services. This rule is effective as of July 13, 2010. These changes are, with limited exception, different from the USCIS proposal to increase filing...
About 1.6 million Indian immigrants now live in the U.S., "making them the third largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican and Filipino immigrants," according to a recent report by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a non-partisan think tank. (See Indian Immigrants...
Pundits often refer to the months before an election as "the silly season," because the frantic pace of political campaigns seems guaranteed to generate at least a few memorable moments of unintentional hilarity or wish-I-hadn't-said-that political gaffes from candidates seemingly too exhausted to remember even...
On June 11, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposal to increase the filing fees for a variety of immigration forms. (See Proposed Rule: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Fee Schedule, 75 Fed. Reg. 33445, 11.Jun.2010.) The proposal has met with mixed reviews....
One would think they had learned their lesson with Arizona Senate Bill 1070. The same geniuses who brought us the "Show-me-your-papers!" legislation are at it again, thinking up new ways to say "I hate you" to millions of undocumented immigrants in Arizona and around the...
