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On January 11, 2011, Darrel Issa, a GOP house judiciary member from Iowa introduced a bill that would eliminate the Diversity Visa ("green card lottery"), and transfer those visas to the second preference category of employment based green cards. The second preference of the employment based visa category can be utilized by company's who sponsor foreign nationals where the job requires a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus five-years of progressive... Read More
As a practicing immigration attorney in New York for forty years, I have never seen so many instances where people with green cards have been questioned at the ports of entry and lost their green card status because they “spent too much time outside the U.S.” Unfortunately these unanticipated inquiries by I.C.E. inspectors often take place after a long flight when the traveler is tired and too readily surrenders his green card because he is too intimidated to properly respond... Read More
It is that time of year again. It is every immigration lawyer’s last line of advice for any person who is not one of the fortunate who for whatever reason cannot obtain the necessary sponsorship to achieve their “American Dream”. For any high school graduate, or certain workers, who are not from Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Canada, China (Mainland-born), Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Pakistan,... Read More
