Not long ago, immigration reform was a bipartisan effort, with leading Republicans like then-President George W. Bush and Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham working shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Democratic Senators Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. How very long ago...
Last week, we at the Murthy Law Firm held our annual holiday party in the Rockland Center of the new - and growing - Owings Mills campus of Stevenson University. The room was alive with laughter and animated conversation, livelier still with the opening of...
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, travel security measures ratcheted up to a level never seen before. Most of these heightened security measures were justified, because we could not afford to risk that another attack might be successful. Although we have had several...
It happens all too frequently: immigrants, already financially strapped, being taken advantage of by unscrupulous people posing as immigration lawyers, sometimes calling themselves "notaries," or using other bogus legal jargon to make themselves sound legitimate. Cases abound in which unsuspecting immigrants have entrusted their green...
In a recent interview on Meet the Press, New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to quell speculation that he might stage an independent run for president in 2012, telling David Gregory, "No, I'm not looking at the possibility of running [for president]. I've got...
Otto von Bismarck is said to have remarked that making laws was like making sausage, because "it's better not to see them being made...
Didn't we just try this in Arizona? The president of the Florida State Senate, Mike Bennett, recently introduced state legislation modeled on the now-famous - or infamous, depending on one's viewpoint - Arizona immigration bill, commonly known as S.B. 1070. Like the Arizona measure, the...
Amid the goodies President Obama sought to provide to his Indian hosts - such as his endorsement of a permanent Indian seat on the United Nations Security Council - the President was at pains to represent his trip as a trade mission that will benefit...
It's no secret. Work visas are getting harder to come by for thousands of H1B and L-1 visa applicants, who now face stiff new fees of $2,000 (for H1B visas) or $2,250 (for L-1 visas), if their prospective employers employ 50 or more workers in...
