Something to keep in mind, when the immigration reform debate resumes on Capitol Hill, sometime in the coming months: the population at immigration detention facilities has doubled in the past decade, according to statistics released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research arm...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have lifted a longtime rule that barred entry to the United States to people who test positive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. The original rule was adopted in June, 1987, a...
It is twenty years ago that the Berlin Wall came crashing down, amid wild celebration and a collective sigh of relief that the Cold War was at last coming to an end - not with a bang, but with music and dancing and noisy jubilation....
A little more than a week before Thanksgiving, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick went public with his New Americans Agenda, a comprehensive report on the state of immigrants in Massachusetts, complete with an ambitious list of action items - 131 in all - that are designed...
Last week, when CNN anchor Lou Dobbs unexpectedly resigned from his position, one couldn't help but wonder whether his managers at CNN had simply had enough. By the time Dobbs left CNN - whether he was pushed out or not - he had become a...
The New York Times reports that Sergey Brin, billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of Google, has donated $1 million to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), the organization that helped his family to resettle in the United States, fleeing the anti-Semitism of the Soviet Union, thirty...
At an awards luncheon on November 7, 2009, Attorney Sheela Murthy received the Radha Pathak Humanitarian Award from CHAI, Counselors Helping (South) Asians / Indians. The award recognized Ms. Murthy's work in the field of immigration, and her generosity, both with her time and her...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on November 9, 2009, the settlement of a class action lawsuit filed in 2007. The press release on this settlement regarding hundreds of delayed N-400 naturalization applications is available online (PDF 84KB). The Murthy Law Firm was...
Andrew Steinberg is no newcomer to immigration law. Before joining the Murthy Law Firm, Andrew had a long and distinguished career as a top government lawyer in the field of immigration law and policy. Andrew started his legal career in 1992, at the Immigration and...
I recently spoke at a business forum about managing diversity in the workplace. The benefits of diversity are obvious to me each day when I come to work, and see all of the talented people who are contributing to the success of the Murthy Law...
