[Today’s article is courtesy of Paul Zulkie, Managing Principal of Zulkie Partners LLC in Chicago, Illinois.] Today, there are more agents along the 1,954 mile-long border that separates the United States and Mexico than ever before. According to a report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), “Immigration Enforcement in the United States,” the amount of [...]
It’s been nine months since the Deferred Action for Childhood Dreamers policy was implemented. How many applicants were there? How did DACA change the lives of the applicants? Here’s a look back during these tumultuous nine months: Prior to the announcement of the DACA policy by USCIS, these young individuals would have continued to live [...]
Since the introduction of the Senate’s S.744 immigration reform bill, there’s been much debate by the public and politicians. What’s fact and what’s fiction? What does the bill actually require? Which amendments matter? We’ve been steadily tracking the bill’s progress and have invited expert immigration attorneys to comment in our multi-part webinar series on S.744. [...]
In early May, the Senate Judiciary Committee members filed 301 amendments to S.744. It was an arduous long couple of weeks of debate during the Senate Judiciary Committee meetings to mark up the bill. The public interest during the markup period was intense, as evidenced by minute-by-minute tweets and daily articles of each passing day [...]
With all this talk about immigration reform, there’s been little talk about the actual cost to the USCIS’ would-be customers – the intending immigrant population – in the event immigration reform were to be passed. What are the costs and how should practitioners realistically prepare their clients? Let’s tackle this one step at a time, [...]
After a submission of 300 amendments from various senators, the Senate Judiciary Committee began marking up S.744 last Thursday, May 9th beginning with Title I of the bill on border security provisions. The second session of markup continued yesterday, May 14th on Title IV of the bill on employment visas. Other titles will be addressed [...]
These days, it’s hard to cull through so many articles on immigration reform and determine what’s speculative, what’s sensational, and what’s actually helpful to the immigration practitioner. By now, your clients might already be feeling a bit antsy and nervous depending on which aspects of the Senate’s CIR bill they may be preoccupied. Our longtime [...]
The talk of immigration reform has many immigrants ready to sign up for the law. Except no law has been passed yet. This fact doesn’t seem to deter “immigrant consultants” (aka “notarios”) from coming out of the woodwork though. Many organizations have been issuing public service announcements to get the word out about the unauthorized [...]
It’s been one week since the Senate’s immigration bill (now known as S.744) was officially released and the news circuit is still aflutter tripping over itself to provide coverage on the voluminous bill. In the past three (business) days, the Senate Judiciary Committee has held three separate hearings to solicit testimony from a bevy of [...]
If you look up the word “compromise” on Google, this is the result you will get: Com·pro·mise (‘kämprǝ mīz/): noun An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. By all accounts, the Senate’s recent immigration reform bill, Border Security Economic Opportunity Immigration Modernization Act 2013 (BSEOIMA), released [...]
