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IMMIGRATION LAW TRAINING: Upcoming Training Programs on Form I-9 and IRCA Compliance.
IMMIGRATION LAW UPDATE AND OVERVIEW
Date:Thursday, 10/16/08
Time: 12:00-2:30pm
Location: Bergen Bar Association,
Hackensack, New Jersey
Sponsored by: The Bergen County Bar
Association
This event will give Immigration
Practitioners an update in the areas of
Family Immigration, Consular Processing,
Immigration Courts, Immigration Criminal
Charges, and Business Immigration Law.
For more information about this event, click
here.
IMMIGRATION LAW AND EMPLOYER COMPLIANCE: A
NEW ERA FOR EMPLOYER LIABILITY
Date: Thursday, 11/6/08
Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
Location: Parsippany Holiday Inn
Hotel and Suites, Parsippany, NJ
Sponsored by: Lorman Education
Services
This program will alert you to potential
problem areas within your organization, equip
you to comply with federal and New Jersey
immigration laws, and reduce your exposure to
criminal liability, while maintaining
necessary staffing to sustain operations.
This seminar is designed for
human resource managers, operations managers,
presidents, vice presidents, supervisors,
managers, controllers, accountants and attorneys.
Continuing Education Credits:
* HRCI 6.5
* HRPD 1.0
* CPE 8.0 including Personnel/HR 8
* PA CLE 6.5
For more information, including detailed
curriculum, speaker line-up, and registration
information, click
here.
ADVANCED CORPORATE IMMIGRATION LAW ISSUES
FOR ATTORNEYS, IN-HOUSE COUNSEL, AND HUMAN
RESOURCE PERSONNEL.
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Location: Seton Hall Law School,
Newark, NJ
Sponsored by: New Jersey State Bar
Association and Continued Legal Education Program
New Jersey State Bar Association and
Continued Legal Education Program "Advanced
Corporate Immigration Law Issues for
Attorneys, In House Counsel and Human
Resources Personnel". This year's program
will take place at Seton Hall Law School
(located one block away from the Newark, New
Jersey train station, and minutes from Newark
International Airport), and is designed to
inform both in-house counsel, and HR
professionals about updates in the
Immigration Law arena.
For more information, contact
our office.
Visit our website for more information about
IMMIGRATION LAW Training Programs in 2009.
To schedule your own customized training
program as part of the Federal Grant Training
Programs presented by Nachman & Associates,
P.C., please contact our
office.
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Dear Readers:
Should we be baffled? History continues to
show that any economic downturn has been
blamed on the "immigrants". The recent
reports about the Lehman Brothers and AIG
debacle have focused little on immigrant
involvement. Restrictionist Immigration Laws
and Regulations are at an all-time high.
Enforcement actions by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement ("ICE") continue to rise
and Removal Proceedings before the Executive
Office of Immigration Review ("EOIR")
continue to climb. Could it actually be the
case that the "paradigm" is wrong? Are the
platforms of the Anti-immigrant organizations
missing the mark? Perhaps the reason for our
Nation's economic woes has more to do with an
inability to keep a watchful eye on those
with their "fingers in the till". In the
go-go 90's the immigration laws were quite
liberal. Back then, less restrictionist
immigration policies led to significant
growth in the U.S. economy. Now is the time,
before the Presidential Election, for us to
think over the future impact of immigration
policies in the U.S. and to study how the
candidates address these important issues.
Approximately thirty five (35) days and
counting . . .
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| IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT ("ICE") UPDATES: |
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ICE And DOJ Joint Statement On Laurel
Raid.
ICE and DOJ issued a joint press release
announcing the raid of an electric
transformer manufacturing facility that
resulted in the arrest of 595 in Laurel,
Mississippi.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
ICE Raids The Sun Valley Group, Arresting
23.
ICE announced that it arrested
23 employees of a major wholesale flower
grower in Arcata, California, The Sun Valley
Group, on immigration violations.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
ICE Highlights IMAGE, Releases FAQs.
ICE is highlighting the ICE Mutual
Agreement Between Government and Employers
(IMAGE) program, which requires employers to
enroll in E-Verify and the Social Security
Number Verification Service, undergo an I-9
audit, adhere to certain employment practices
and sign an agreement with ICE.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
ICE Signs 37 New Partners In IMAGE
Program.
ICE announced that the ICE Mutual
Agreement between Government and Employers
(IMAGE) program signed on 26 new members to
the corporate compliance group that already
included nine charter members.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
Seven Federal Contractors Listed for
Debarment.
On 9/12/08 ICE announced that seven
companies will be considered for debarment
from federal contracting because each was
found to be unlawfully employing persons
without employment authorization.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
F, M Visa Fee Increase Final Rule.
This rule adjusts the Student and Exchange
Visitor Program (SEVP) school certification
petition fees and the application fees for
nonimmigrants seeking to become academic (F
visa) or vocational (M visa) students, or
exchange visitors (J visa). ICE has issued
two PowerPoint presentations in connection
with the Student and Exchange Information
System (SEVIS).
Click
Here for More Information . . .
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| CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES OMBUDSMAN UPDATES: |
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CIS Ombudsman Releases "Visas for Nurses"
Questions And Answers.
The following are questions and
corresponding answers discussed during the
May 30, 2008 teleconference: "Visas for
Nurses: How Does This Impact Your Medical
Facility?"
Click
Here for More Information . . .
CIS Ombudsman Releases "Summer 2007
Application Surge"
Questions And Answers.
The following are questions and
corresponding answers discussed during the
May 30, 2008 teleconference: USCIS Summer
2007 Application Surge: "How Is It Affecting
You Now?"
Click
Here for More Information . . .
CIS Ombudsman on EADs Pending more than 90
Days.
The CIS Ombudsman's office reports that
numerous inquiries about EADs pending more
than 90 days have been received and provides
suggestions for reporting applications
pending beyond normal processing times to USCIS.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
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| DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ("DHS"), CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES ("CIS") UPDATES: |
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Neufeld Memorandum On Military
Naturalization.
CIS Acting Associate Director Neufeld
released guidance on continuous residence,
physical presence, and eligibility for
overseas proceedings relating to
naturalization in the case of a spouse or
child of a member of the US Armed Forces.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
CIS Web Page Is a Guide to the
Redesigned Naturalization Test.
CIS created a page on its website,
which is a guide to the redesigned
naturalization test. It clarifies which
version of the test and applicant can take
based on when she applied and the date of the
interview.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
DOS Issues Final Rule on Inadmissibility
of Unlawful Voters.
DOS issued a final rule implementing the
exception in INA Section 212(a)(10)(D) to the
ground of inadmissibility for foreign
nationals who voted in violation of U.S. law.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
Two Categories of Special Immigrant
Religious Workers Due to Expire on October
1st Have Been Extended.
CIS reminds its customers that
authorization for the non-minister special
immigrant religious worker program will
expire on October 1st, 2008. Individuals applying
to serve in the two non-minister categories
of the program should either adjust status to
permanent residence or apply for, and be
admitted with, an immigrant visa before October
1st, 2008, as a precaution.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
Link provided courtesy of ILW.com.
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| U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ("DOL") UPDATES: |
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DOL Tries Again to Regulate the
Attorney-Client Relationship.
DOL issues a "restatement" of its earlier
Bulletin attempting to regulate the
relationship between attorneys and their
employer clients in the labor certification
context.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
DOL to Attorneys: Never Mind (Sort of).
In the latest twist of the audit
saga of a major U.S. immigration Firm, DOL
has announced that it will apply its August
29, 2008, "guidance" only to recruitment
begun after the date of that guidance and
that pending audits for this
reason will be released.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
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| CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION ("CBP") ISSUES AN UPDATE ON WHTI: |
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Earlier this month, CBP officials
participated in a roundtable with reporters
to discuss the Western Hemisphere Travel
Initiative and to preview the new phase of
the WHTI National Public
Education Campaign.
"The agency is committed to implementing
WHTI in a common sense, flexible way that
facilitates the flow of legitimate travelers
and improves the security of our borders,"
said Assistant Commissioner Thomas Winkowski.
"Since the time WHTI was first announced, we
have taken seriously our obligation to inform
travelers of the change in procedures."
To ensure the message gets out there, CBP
Officials have begun an advertising campaign
in Canada as well. Click
Here to view the Press Information . . .
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Click Here to View the New Website, getyouhome.gov, Explaining the WHTI Requirements . . . |
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| U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE ("DOS") UPDATES: |
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Scialabba and Neufeld Memorandum on
Inadmissibility Due to HIV Infection.
Late last month, Lori Scialabba,
Associate Director, Refugee, Asylum, and
International Operations Directorate, CIS,
and Donald Neufeld, Associate Director,
Domestic Operations, CIS, released a memo
on inadmissibility due to HIV infection in
light of the President's signing of H.R. 5501.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
Link provided courtesy of ILW.com.
New J-1 Program for Korean Students and
Recent Graduates.
On September 22nd, 2008 the DOS announced
that it has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding ("MOU") with Korea regarding
the WEST (Work, English
Study, Travel) Program. The exchange program,
to be launched in 2009, will allow up to
5,000 university students and recent
graduates from the to enter the U.S. for a
period of 18 months on J-1 exchange visitor
visas.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
DOS Publishes Instructions on Applying
for the DV-2010 Program.
The Congressionally mandated Diversity
Immigrant Visa Program makes available 50,000
permanent resident visas annually, drawn from
random selection among all entries to persons
who meet strict eligibility requirements from
countries with low rates of immigration to
the United States.
The DV-2010 Lottery online entry begins at
Noon EDT on October 2, 2008, and ends at Noon
EST on December 1, 2008.
Click
Here for More Information . . .
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