Immigration Law

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News & Analysis as of May 20, 2013

Immigration Compliance: Seven Deadly Mistakes for Employers

by Ronald Shapiro on 12/18/2012

Based on information provided by the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) and various year-end publications about the actions brought against employers for immigration violations in 2012, we have compiled a short list of...more

THE NEW NIGERIA TAX LAW, FREE TRADE ZONE AND START YOUR BUSINESS.

by Pere Anthony Ariaye on 7/14/2012

WITH THE NEW TAX LAW, through FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT SCHEME; AS INVESTOR, ENTREPRENEUR, DOING BUSINESS WITHIN NIGERIA FREE TRADE ZONES: You have right, to do business in Nigeria without paying tax in return, as a result...more

Yes there is a citizen of a State and a citizen of the United States

by Dan Goodman on 10/26/2011

There is a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of a State who is not a citizen of the United States. Legal authority quoted, cited and linked....more

Technology Exports: Uncertainty Around Form I-129 Persists

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/23/2011

Beginning on February 20, 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (“CIS”) assumed a role in the U.S. Government's increasing regulation of technology exports. The new role for CIS relates to the transfer...more

Citizenship and Domicile: Before and After the Fourteenth Amendment

by Dan Goodman on 4/29/2011

A citizen of a State, under Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, has a domicile in a particular State. A citizen of the United States, under Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment has only a residence in a...more

What was the holding of the Slaughterhouse Cases?

by Dan Goodman on 4/8/2011

The Slaughterhouse Cases held, one, that citizenship of a State was separate and distinct from citizenship of the United States; that a citizen of a State was separate and distinct from a citizen of the United States. ...more

Shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities IN and OF the several States

by Dan Goodman on 12/25/2010

Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of Constitution was modified by the Fourteenth Amendment, in particular, Section 1, Clause 2. This was determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Slaughterhouse Cases. ...more