Legal updates for: "Deferred Action"

by Cozen O'Connor on 5/1/2013

... week, Congress took another step forward in advancing commonsense immigration reform. Just a week after bipartisan Senate leaders introduced their comprehensive bill – the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S. 744) – Secretary Napolitano testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in... more

by JD Supra Law News on 4/16/2013

... text copy of the 844-page draft immigration reform legislation introduced in the United States Senate on April 16, 2013 by the bipartisan “Group of Eight:” –Republicans John McCain, Jeff Flake, Marco Rubio, and Lindsey Graham, and Democrats Charles Schumer, Dick Durbin, Robert Menendez, and Michael Bennet. From the... more

by Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC on 3/14/2013

...dishonesty). USCIS essentially extends generally the instruction it gave recently in relation to workers obtaining "Deferred Action for Child Arrivals," which we described in a prior alert: complete a new I-9 Form AND a new E-Verify query (if E-Ve... more

by Varnum LLP on 3/7/2013

... The unauthorized status of many agricultural workers creates risks of liability and worker unavailability. While Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) provides the opportunity for temporary work authorization for qualifying 15 to 30 year-olds, m... more

by Littler on 2/6/2013

... the past decade, lawmakers have discussed immigration reform, but changes to U.S. immigration laws have been minimal. During the 2012 election campaign President Obama pledged to place immigration reform at the top of his agenda. His re-election indicates that key voting blocs support immigration reform, and analysts on both sides of the political... more

by XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 1/31/2013

... one week after President Barack Obama's second inaugural address wherein he declared his views on immigration, a bipartisan group of eight senators on January 27 agreed on a proposed framework for comprehensive immigration reform. The senators who have agreed to this framework are: Dick Durbin (D-IL), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Marco Rubio (R-FL),... more

by Ronald Shapiro on 1/25/2013

...y, it is hard to understand why only an estimated 355,000 immigrants have stepped forward to claim their right to “deferred action” status, despite the fact that an estimated 1.7 million should qualify, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. ... more

by Fowler White Boggs P.A. on 1/24/2013

...clarified on Friday, January 18, 2013, that undocumented youth who are given work permits and deportation reprieve under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are considered to be lawfully present during the period deferred action is in effect. ... more