Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

            U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it is reopening the fiscal year 2009 H-2B petition filing period and will now accept new H-2B petitions.  Although USCIS had previously determined on Jan. 7, 2009, that it had approved a sufficient number of H-2B petitions to meet the annual cap of 66,000, the [...]

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The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended the designation of Somalia for temporary protected status (TPS) for another 18 months, from its current expiration date of September 17, 2009 through March 17, 2011.  Somali nationals in the U.S. under TPS can re-register and extend their status, pending the U.S. government’s further [...]

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In his campaign for the presidency, President Barack Obama vowed to promote policies that would reform our nation’s immigration system comprehensively, those that focused not just on border security, but reforms that would “bring people out of the shadows,” keep families together and remove the various hurdles that encourage people to enter and remain in [...]

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There has been a lot of discussion in the media recently about the issues of torture, “enhanced interrogation techniques” and other detention policies undertaken by the Bush Administration to deal with suspected al Qaida terrorists.  While the debate has centered on whether those who allegedly participated in torture should face prosecution, there is a larger [...]

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            An 89-year old retired auto-worker from Ford and twice de-naturalized U.S. citizen is desperately trying to avoid deportation to Germany, and this week the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to rule on whether his stay should be granted and case reopened.  The Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Demjanjuk in 1920) has been [...]

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