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MoFo Provides Legal Support To Ukrainian Refugees In The United States

MoFo is committed to supporting those in need through our pro bono efforts. On July 2, 2024, our Washington, D.C. office demonstrated this commitment by assisting 18 Ukrainian refugees in their quest to stay in the United...more

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Softbank Partnership Brings Rare Victory For Refugee In Japan

Morrison Foerster lawyers successfully helped a pro bono client secure refugee status in Japan. This outcome was the result of a partnership with SoftBank, which suggested in 2021 that the firm join its in-house lawyers in...more

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Empowering Voices: The Story Of The Afghanistan National Institute Of Music

On April 30, 2024, MoFo partner and global co-chair of the Investigations + White Collar Defense practice group Carrie H. Cohen and associate Sabreena Khalid in MoFo’s Finance Group spoke with Lesley Rosenthal, president of...more

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MoFo Wins Asylum For Widow And Young Child Who Fled Taliban-Seized Afghanistan

MoFo recently won asylum for an Afghan woman and her young son, after nearly a year of waiting for the Asylum Office to issue its decision following the asylum interview. The firm’s pro bono client is a widow from a religious...more

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Cozen O'Connor Immigration Catch Up: September 2023

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September 2023 saw major changes and updates in the United States and around the world. The Cozen O’Connor Immigration Catch-Up this month highlights these changes and provides the details you need to determine how or if...more

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USCIS Increases EAD Validity Period to Five Years for Certain Categories

On September 27, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued an update to the USCIS Policy Manual to increase the maximum validity period to five years for initial and renewal Employment Authorization...more

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USCIS Increases Validity Period of Employment Authorization Documents

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USCIS is increasing the maximum validity period to five years for initial and renewal Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for certain categories of applicants, including noncitizens with pending adjustment of status...more

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Obywatele Ukrainy z przedłużoną ochroną do 4 marca 2024 roku

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Ważne: Chcemy zwrócić Państwa uwagę na istotną, a rzadko komentowaną zmianę, dotyczącą przedłużenia ochrony czasowej w Polsce dla obywateli Ukrainy na podstawie specustawy. Są to dobre wieści dla obywateli Ukrainy i ich...more

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Ukrainian citizens now have an extended period of protection until 4 March 2024

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Important: We would like to draw your attention to an important but rarely commented upon change concerning the extension of temporary protection in Poland for citizens of Ukraine under the Ukrainian Special Act...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

2022 Pro Bono Report

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Throughout this report, you’ll see images from one of our nonprofit pro bono clients, Scrollathon. Brothers and artists Steven and William Ladd founded Scrollathon to engage communities in the creation of art through...more

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Policy Update: Employing Ukrainian Refugees in Israel

The Interior Ministry has once again extended its policy of not taking enforcement measures against the employment of Ukrainian citizens who are in Israel because of the war in Ukraine.   According to this policy, enforcement...more

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Spike in Migrants Crossing U.S.-Canada Border Raising Concerns

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With migrant “encounters” at the southern border much in the news, the Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Swanton Sector along the northern border has recorded encounters increasing at a rate never seen before....more

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One year on: A&O’s global pro bono legal support for Ukrainian refugees

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A year ago on 23 February 2022, Russia and Ukraine stood on the brink of war. And then, just a few hours later on 24 February, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict which began in 2014....more

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The New Public Charge Rule and its Previous Iterations

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The public charge provisions in the Immigration Nationality Ac (INA) have been part of U.S. immigration law for decades. We recently reported that on December 23, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began using a...more

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New York Note - Making New York Work for Everyone, Council Housing, Asylum Seeker Tuition

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Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul Launch “Making New York Work for Everyone”- Last Wednesday, Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul released “’New’ New York: Making New York Work for Everyone.” The plan consists of a set of 40...more

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New Laws Extend Employment Authorization Eligibility Granted to Refugees/Parolees to Certain Individuals from Afghanistan and...

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Section 8 U.S.C. 1157 of the U.S. Code grants employment authorization for eligible individuals awarded refugee status, stating in part that these individuals “ … shall be eligible for resettlement assistance, entitlement...more

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Pro bono support for asylum seekers detained in the UK

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To mark UK National Pro Bono Week, A&O volunteers talk about their work to support asylum seekers at risk of removal from the UK to Rwanda....more

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Shoulder by Shoulder

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On August 15, 2021, the Taliban overthrew the Afghan government shortly after the United States announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. In the weeks that followed, the US government evacuated over 120,000 US...more

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System Diia.pl – nowe rozwiązaniem dla obywateli Ukrainy

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W związku z wciąż rozszerzającym się ustawodawstwem związanym z pobytem obywateli Ukrainy w Polsce, kancelaria Hogan Lovells przygotowała dla Państwa newsletter na temat dokumentu Diia.pl. Elektroniczny dokument Diia.pl...more

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Directing the pro bono response to a growing international refugee crisis

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The number of people forcibly displaced in the world has reached over 100 million for the first time, with sudden and large scale crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine intensifying an already growing problem. Around half of...more

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Deferral of Enforced Departure Extended for Liberians

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President Joe Biden has extended Deferral of Enforced Departure (DED) and employment authorization for Liberians until June 30, 2024. Accordingly, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will publish instructions regarding...more

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How to Calculate EAD Automatic Extensions

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Automatic Employment Authorization Document (EAD) extensions are confusing. Before you can figure out whether one of the various extensions applies, you need to identify the EAD category....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFoREAL Q2 2022

Welcome to the latest edition of MoFoReal, our newsletter highlighting recent activities of and other developments in MoFo’s European Real Estate team. In this edition, we consider the impact of the war in Ukraine on the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Immigration Update: April 2022 — Uniting for Ukraine

Since our previous article on March 28, 2022, approximately 5.1 million Ukrainians have left the country and another 6.5 million have been displaced from their homes, but are still in Ukraine. The United States has taken some...more

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"Uniting for Ukraine" Humanitarian Parole Program

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On April 21, 2022, the Biden Administration announced "Uniting for Ukraine," which provides a streamlined process for displaced Ukrainian citizens and their immediate family members who are outside the United States to come...more

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