The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced recently that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Somalia from its current expiration date of September 7, 2009 through March 17, 2011. The DHS and the Department of State (DOS) have continued to monitor country conditions in Somalia. Consequently, both the Secretaries of the [...]

Immigration Prof Blog reported recently that the U.S. Department of Justice during the month of April of this year reported over 10,000 new immigration prosecutions. According to information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the rise in immigration related prosecutions has risen almost 10%. According to the report, Illegal Reentry of Removed (Deported) Alien, Title 8 U.S.C Section 1326 (PDF) was [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Press Release recently containing additional guidance to certain employers who received a denial of Form I-129 (Petition for Non-Immigrant Worker) requesting H-1B classification for a beneficiary to practice in a health care specialty occupation before May 20, 2009. If the H-1B visa petition was denied only on the basis that the beneficiary didn’t [...]

The U.S. Department of State has informed recently that applicants who have registered for the DV-2010 Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery by logging into the official website will now be able to check the status of their entry through the e-DV website .  Applicants will need to use the confirmation number that was assigned by the US Department of State at the time [...]

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) has just launched a new audit initiative beginning this month by issuing Notices of Inspection (NOI’s) to 652 businesses nationwide.  The NOI’s are meant to alert business owners that the USICE will be inspecting their hiring records to determine whether or not they are complying with the immigration laws concerning employment eligibility [...]

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) announced yesterday that a $40,000 fine settlement was agreed between the USICE and the Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation for violations of the immigration laws relating to the employment of unauthorized workers. The USICE conducted an audit of the Forms I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) Krispy Kreme had on file after receiving information prompting an investigation [...]