The National Lawyers’ Guild has answered ICE’s request for feedback on it’s policy to resume deporations of Haitian nationals: On Monday, March 7, 2011 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requested feedback on its policy to resume deportations/removals to Haiti. The deadline for comments is March 11 to email your comments to ICE. The National Immigration [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported that today, January 12 is the one (1) year anniversary that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed over 230,000 people and left about 1,000,000 homeless in Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country. In an effort to help Haitian nationals both in the U.S. and in Haiti, President Obama and his administration acted quickly and extended benefits such as Humanitarian Parole  and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported earlier this week that it will implement the Help Haiti Act of 2010 that was signed by the President on December 9, 2010.  The law authorizes USCIS to grant lawful permanent resident (green card) status to certain Haitian children who are orphaned and were also paroled into the United States pursuant to the Haitian [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced yesterday that it will conduct an agency-wide policy review to examine and potentially change its policies concerning the adjudication of applications for benefits and customer service. The USCIS has selected the following ten (10) areas to examine in its policy review: National Customer Service; H-1B visas; Citizenship & Naturalization; Employment based green cards in general; Employment [...]

The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that DHS Secretary Napolitano in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State  (DOS)that humanitarian parole is now authorized to allow orphaned Haitian children to come to the United States on a temporary basis as part of the ongoing support of recovery efforts in the wake of last week’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged Haiti. Both government agencies [...]

The Miami Herald reported today that the Catholic Church with help from the U.S. government is putting in motion, a relief effort to bring orphaned and unaccompanied Haitian children to the United States under a humanitarian program that was implemented 50 years ago for Cuban children when the Communist government took over Cuba.  The program is referred [...]