Seyfarth Synopsis: This is the third installment in a series of recommendations to the Biden Administration on immigration reform previously published by the Cato Institute in “Deregulating Legal Immigration: A Blueprint for...more
At the urging of President Biden, two members of Congress – Senator Robert Menendez and Representative Linda Sanchez – introduced companion 353-page bills last month in the Senate and the House entitled the “U.S. Citizenship...more
The trend of recent months to curtail employment-based immigration, purportedly prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, continues unabated. On August 3, 2020 President Trump issued yet another executive order, this one...more
8/7/2020
/ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
E-Verify ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Foreign Workers ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigration and Nationality Act ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Immigration Reform ,
Memorandum of Agreement ,
Subcontractors ,
Trump Administration ,
USCIS ,
Visas
We’ve seen this movie before.
Scene 1: The President issues a proclamation in reliance on his authority to restrict the entry of certain noncitizens under Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 212(f) so long as he...more
7/9/2020
/ Exceptions ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Nationals ,
H-1B ,
Immigration and Nationality Act ,
Immigration Reform ,
L-1 Visas ,
Presidential Proclamations ,
Travel Ban ,
Trump Administration ,
Visas
In the wake of recent losses in the federal courts, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – on June 17, 2020 – issued a memorandum that rescinds two agency policies which, for more than ten years, had forced...more
6/25/2020
/ Bona Fide Relationship Test ,
Deregulation ,
Filing Requirements ,
Foreign Workers ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Immigration Reform ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
USCIS
President Trump’s October 9, 2019 overtures landed as music to the ears of many a grizzled immigration lawyer who persistently suffers battle fatigue from the culture of virtually never. On that day the President released a...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On July 24, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the immigration-benefits component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), published a final regulation on “EB-5 Immigrant...more
7/31/2019
/ EB-5 ,
Economic Development ,
Foreign Investment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Immigrant Investment Visas ,
Immigrant Investor Program ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Immigration Reform ,
Job Creation ,
Targeted Employment Area ,
USCIS
Seyfarth Synopsis: California enacted its Immigrant Worker Protection Act (IWPA) to make it more difficult for federal immigration enforcement agents to access nonpublic areas of employer worksites and private employee...more
8/9/2018
/ Business Interruption ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Foreign Workers ,
Immigrants ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Immigration Reform ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Raids ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws
Seyfarth Synopsis: USCIS proposes a regulation to grant special “parole” entry to certain foreign entrepreneurs backed by venture capitalists and angel investors. The rule is long and complicated, while the benefit granted...more
8/30/2016
/ Business Formation ,
Corporate Counsel ,
EB-5 ,
Economic Development ,
Entrepreneurs ,
Immigrants ,
Immigration Reform ,
Investment ,
Investors ,
Job Creation ,
PERM ,
Startups ,
USCIS ,
Venture Capital ,
Visas ,
Young Lawyers