12
Jul
2023
If you have heard that USCIS issues employment authorization documents (EADs) based on compelling circumstances, you may be wondering if you qualify. In this blog post, we will explain eligibility for these EADs and how USCIS defines compelling circumstances. USCIS issues EADs based on compelling circumstances to help foreign workers who are employed in the READ MORE
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Oct
2019
07
Aug
2019
In the wake of another terrorist attack, I highly recommend David Brooks’ editorial “The Ideology of Hate and How to Fight It” in August 7th’s NY Times. It is one of the best explanations of the strength of pluralism and inspires me to continue to promote diversity through my immigration law practice. He writes: READ MORE
03
Nov
2018
The US Supreme Court declined the Trump Administration’s request to halt a trial in Manhattan in one of the six lawsuits challenging the Trump Administration’s inclusion of a question on citizenship status on the 2020 census. Federal courts in California, Maryland, and New York have allowed five of the six challenges to the Trump Administration’s READ MORE
16
Jul
2018
US Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS) issued a policy memo for adjudicators reviewing applications and petitions for immigration benefits that provides them with broader discretion to deny them outright without first sending a Request for Evidence (RFE) or a Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID). Such a policy shift is disproportionately punitive and may lead READ MORE
27
Aug
2017
In today’s NYT’s editorial section (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/sunday/networking-connections-business.html?ref=opinion) Adam Grant writes, “Networking is overrated. Achievement is a magnet to mentors and a beacon to backers.” He notes that networking alone leads to “empty transactions” and not “rich relationships,” which bring the real rewards. He notes that it is important to first have an impressive track record and READ MORE
17
Mar
2017
On March 15, 2017, a federal district court in Hawaii temporarily blocked Trump’s second travel ban finding that it violated the US Constitution’s Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and that the Trump administration failed to provide sufficient evidence of a threat to national security. In particular, Judge Watson held that a reasonable objective observer READ MORE