17
Feb
2011
Recently, BALCA has decided a number of cases clarifying regulations surrounding the PERM labor certification application. Such case law is helpful in providing clear instructions to the otherwise general guidelines provided in the Code of Federal Regulations, the latter of which has created guesswork for immigration attorneys and employers attempting to comply with the plethora READ MORE
10
Mar
2010
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that Greece is now a member of the Visa Waiver Program. The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) was established as a pilot program in 1986 to eliminate unnecessary barriers to travel to the US. In October 2000 it became a permanent feature of US immigration law and READ MORE
01
Sep
2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed to amend its regulations by rescinding its safe-harbor procedures for employers who receive a no-match letter, which were originally promulgated on August 15, 2007, and October 28, 2008. According to the proposed rule in Federal Register: August 19, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 159)][Page 41801-41805]: “Implementation of the 2007 READ MORE
15
Dec
2008
On December 12, 2008, USCIS announced that it had submitted interim final rules to the Federal Register to streamline Form I-9. USCIS’s announcement states that the rule narrows the list of acceptable identity documents and excludes expired documents as acceptable forms of identification. USCIS’s reasoning is that a broader “document list makes it more difficult for READ MORE
10
Jun
2008
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has designated the free, online employment eligibility verification system, E-Verify, as the electronic employment eligibility verification system that all federal contractors must use, as required by Executive Order 12989. In particular, Executive Order 12989 directs all federal departments and agencies to require contractors, as a condition of each future federal READ MORE
07
May
2008
Today, the US House heard testimony on legislation to require all employers to participate in E-Verify, the federal electronic employment verification system that allows an employer to verify an employee’s work authorization online. The system is notorious for its many flaws and today representatives and witnesses voiced concern that the law would overtax the Social Security Administration (SSA) READ MORE
25
Apr
2008
The Low Wage Immigrant Worker Coalition (LWIW) has filed the following comments in the Federal Register in opposition to the recently published Social Security no-match rule published by US DHS: “The LWIW Coalition opposes the implementation of the DHS rule on the following grounds: the rule does not address the serious issues that were raised READ MORE