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		<title>H-1B Visa Season to Begin for FY 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported today that on April 1, 2010, applications for H-1B visas for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 will be accepted.  The USCIS will consider a case as accepted only when the USCIS&#8217; mail room takes possession of a properly filed petition with the correct filing fee.
The numerical limitation on H-1B petitions for FY 2011 remains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/09/h-1b-visa-season-to-begin-for-fy-2011/</link>
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		<title>President Seeking Bipartisan Support for Immigration Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times reported late last week that President Obama has sought bipartisan support from Senators Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York and Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina despite a very uphill battle to convince lawmakers to come together and create legislation to overhaul our nation&#8217;s immigration laws.
The President is seeking to bring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/08/president-seeking-bipartisan-support-for-immigration-reform/</link>
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		<title>Owner of English Language School Charged with Immigration Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Immigration &#38; Customs Enforcement (USICE) reported that the owner and employee of the Florida Language Institute (FLI) were arrested and charged with immigration fraud.
Based on the USICE&#8217;s investigation, they discovered that the school sponsored non-immigrant foreign students and issued I-20 forms without requiring the students to maintain a full time course of study.  Maintaining a full time course of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/05/owner-of-english-language-school-charged-with-immigration-fraud/</link>
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		<title>USICE Inspecting the Hiring Records of 180 Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) reported earlier this week that it has just issued about 180 Notices of Inspection (NOI&#8217;s) to businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee. The NOI&#8217;s informed the affected business owners that they have three (3) days to prepare for the USICE to inspect their hiring records to determine whether or not they have hired unauthorized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/04/usice-inspecting-the-hiring-records-of-180-businesses/</link>
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		<title>State of Arizona Close to Criminalizing the Presence of Undocumented Immigrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Orlando Sentinel reported today that anti-immigrant lawmakers in the Arizona Legislature banded together and introduced legislation to criminalize the presence of undocumented immigrants in their state.
If the legislation becomes law, Arizona would be the only state to criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants by means expanding the definition of  trespassing. The law would state and local law enforcement to determine the  immigration status [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/03/state-of-arizona-close-to-criminalizing-the-presence-of-undocumented-immigrants/</link>
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		<title>Start Up Visa Act of 2010 Introduced in the Senate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar introduced legislation last week to promote job creation and increase our nation&#8217;s ability to remain globally competitive.  If the bill is signed into law, it would help foreign national entrepreneurs pursue a new way to immigrate to the U.S.
The Start Up Visa Act of 2010 would allow foreign nationals who are entrepreneurs to pursue an immigrant visa (green card) on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/02/start-up-visa-act-of-2010-introduced-in-the-senate/</link>
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		<title>E-Verify System Still has Bugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Orlando Sentinel reported recently that the system both Congress and the President direct employers to use called E-Verify to combat the hiring of illegal immigrants, is actually failing to identify over half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company named Westat has found.
The research company found that E-Verify failed to detect so many illegal workers mainly because the system is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/01/e-verify-system-still-has-bugs/</link>
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		<title>USCIS Changes Filing Location for Applications to Adjust Status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services  (USCIS) reported today that as part of their overall transition to the use of lockbox facilities instead of service centers, that beginning February 25, 2010, Form I-485 (Application to Adjust Status) are to be submitted to the Dallas or Phoenix Lockbox Facilities depending on where the applicant resides.
The I-485 is a form that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/02/26/uscis-changes-filing-location-for-applications-to-adjust-status/</link>
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		<title>USCIS Changes Filing Location for Applications for Work Authorization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Citizenship &#38; Immigration Services (USCIS) reported that effective today, applicants for work authorization under the various categories are required to submit their application to the designated lockboxes in Phoenix or Dallas depending on where the applicant resides.
The USCIS&#8217; designation of these lockboxes is part of their effort to reallocate resources and relieve some of the workload from the USCIS Service Centers to USCIS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/02/25/uscis-changes-filing-location-for-applications-for-work-authorization/</link>
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		<title>Support for the President by Young People Fading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Orlando Sentinel reported today that a study by the Pew Research Center that will be released today discusses the fading support by young people aged 18 to 29 whose strong turnout back in November 2008 for the Presidential election was claimed by demographers as the start of a new Democratic movement.
The study&#8217;s findings are very significant because the results show that the diverse turnout [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/02/24/support-for-the-president-by-young-people-fading/</link>
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