Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

As an immigration attorney, I regularly work with individuals from foreign countries in all parts of the globe.  I’m struck by how some people seem to learn foreign languages with relative ease, such that you barely detect an “accent” from them, while others work for years at it and still sound as though they just began learning. [...]

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The Department of Labor (DOL), Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA), issued a potentially far-reaching decision recently regarding the affirmative processes in which an employer must engage to evaluate potential U.S. workers applying for the job it seeks to offer a foreign worker.
The labor certification process is the first of a series of steps [...]

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Recently the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA, at www.wola.org) published the “Central American Gang-Related Asylum Resource Guide,” intended to give attorneys, activists, policymakers and human rights workers the relevant data needed to understand the complicated and evolving presence of gangs in Central America and the growing number of gang-related asylum cases making their way [...]

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The EB-1 “Outstanding Professor or Researcher” category is available to professors and researchers who are recognized internationally as being outstanding in a specific academic area, with an established, peer recognized research record.
To be eligible, the alien must have:

An offer of employment for a tenured or tenure-track position or a comparable “permanent” research position. The U.S. [...]

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On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court (5-4) denied a motion for a stay of execution requested by Jose Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican citizen on death-row in Texas for the 1993 rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston.  Medellin’s request for a stay was based on a last ditch hope that either the U.S. [...]

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