This week USCIS officials traveled to Afghanistan to process naturalization applications and interview 125 members of the military who have applied to become U.S. citizens. Those eligible service-members whose applications are approved will then participate in a special Memorial Day naturalization ceremony at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. “These USCIS officers volunteered to deploy [...]
Entries from May 2009
Special Naturalization Ceremony for Service Members this Memorial Day
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Immigration · Uncategorized
H-1B Fiscal Year 2010 Quota Still Open for New Applicants
May 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Once again, the USCIS has announced that it is still accepting filings for H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2010 program. As of May 18, 2009, USCIS has received only 45,500 H-1B petitions counting toward the Congressionally-mandated 65,000 cap. Additionally, the agency has received approximately 20,000 petitions for aliens with advanced degrees, but it [...]
Tags: Business Law · Employment Based Petitions · Immigration · Temporary Workers · Uncategorized
Supreme Court Rules on Applicability of Aggravated Identity Theft Statute to an Immigrant’s Use of a False Social Security Number
May 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision addressing the Department of Justice’s use of a federal statute covering identity theft and its applicability to undocumented immigrants who have used false social security numbers in order to obtain employment.
The case, Flores-Figueroa v. United States, required the court to address a [...]
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