USCIS taketh away, but sometimes it giveth. In July of 1997, USCIS raised fees for a broad range of immigration filings, including the green card, which jumped overnight from about $400 to over $1,000, including the mandatory biometrics fee. USCIS recently announced its intention to...
For now, GOP strategists seem content to ride the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment emanating from the right fringes of that party, with prominent national Republicans at pains to show their border-tightening, ID-checking credentials at every turn. At the same time, many in the party are...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) runs an enormous system of detention facilities to house the thousands of immigrants it takes into custody each year, for a variety of reasons, ranging from unauthorized entry into the United States, to assertion of an asylum claim, among...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on July 15th that the agency reached a major goal this year in granting all 10,000 of the available U visas to nonimmigrant crime victims who seek to remain in the United States. (See USCIS Reaches Milestone:...
Reasonable minds can differ on the origins and effects of - and possible solutions to - our broken immigration system, but some interlocutors in our national immigration debate have purer motives than others, and not everyone is completely candid about these motives. At times, beneath...
Mere politics sullied the purity of the turf during this year's All-Star Game, in Anaheim, California, as civil rights advocates, religious leaders, and even some of the players went on record in favor of boycotting baseball's 2011 All-Star Game, if it takes place as scheduled...
Be careful what you wish for, the saying goes; you just might get it. This old saw is especially germane to Arizona's S.B. 1070, the ill-starred attempt to regulate immigration on the state level, notwithstanding the federal government's exclusive jurisdiction over such matters. Arizonans who...
Just weeks after being recognized as a leading minority-owned business by the Baltimore Business Journal, the Murthy Law Firm has done it again! Another influential regional business publication - Corridor, Inc. - listed the Murthy Law Firm as one of 10 Minority-Owned Businesses to Watch.Amid...
Among a flurry of recent accolades received by the Murthy Law Firm and its founder, Attorney Sheela Murthy also received a 2010 Leaders Portfolio Award from Washington D.C.'s Money 1260 Radio. The award was presented by Rebecca Blacksmith, host of the interview program Leaders Portfolio....
The Murthy Law Firm is among the top 50 minority-owned businesses in the greater Baltimore area, according to a list published by the Baltimore Business Journal in June 2010. The list is part of a special section on minority-owned businesses and includes articles on recent...
