Insight, News, and Strategy on Immigration Matters Around the World
AUTHOR: Robert Neale.
President Obama announced today that he will address the nation on Thursday evening, November 20, 2014, to announce the executive actions he will be taking on immigration reform. A follow up speech is scheduled for Friday in Las Vegas, Nevada, to provide additional details regarding his plan.
Advocates for immigration reform have…
Given the employer’s status as a “Second Offender,” the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO) ordered that a penalty of $329,895, assessed by ICE agents involved in investigating the company’s I-9 practices, be upheld. In USA v. Durable, Inc., presiding Judge Helen K. Thomas recognized that the employer had incurred 300 I-9…
“It’s time for us to take care of business,” President Barack Obama announced to the press after the elections last week. The administration may take executive action on immigration soon. With most of those races now decided, the President sounded a note of impatience: “I can’t wait another two years,” he said in the briefing.…
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has rejected U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services’ determination that “inherent knowledge a person gains as a result of his or her upbringing, family and community traditions, and overall assimilation to one’s native culture necessarily falls into the realm of general knowledge” and therefore cannot not considered “specialized knowledge”…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that as of January 1, 2015, in accordance with the National Archives and Records Administration records retention and disposal schedule, it will begin permanently disposing E-Verify records that are more than 10 years old, including all activity recorded in an employer’s E-Verify profile. Employers that have been participating…
Five franchisees and operators of 7-Eleven, Inc. stores located throughout Long Island, New York and Virginia plead guilty to committing wire fraud and concealing and harboring unauthorized foreign national employees, the DHS has announced. The September 22nd pleas were the result of an investigation that culminated in the June 16, 2013 raids of more…
All private and public employers in Colorado must complete an employment authorization affidavit for employees hired on or after January 1, 2007. The affirmation, which must be completed within 20 days of hire, is separate from the federal I-9 rules. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s (CDLE) new mandatory form must be used starting…
Optional Practical Training (OPT) for F-1 students is intended to provide hands-on practical work experience in the U.S., complementary to the academic program. A foreign student in F status may work for 12 months post-graduation pursuant to OPT. An additional, one-time 17-month extension may be available if the student and employer meet certain qualifications. After…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that first-time Canadian TN and L visa applicants applying for admission to the United States may visit 14 designated ports of entry for optimized processing of their visa applications. Beginning mid-September, the 14 designated ports of entry are:
Pre-flight Clearance:
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What happens when during an internal I-9 Audit, a company discovers it has accepted more documentation than necessary for Form I-9. Should the company retain or destroy the documentation?
This question was recently posed to the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Immigration Practices (“OSC”). OSC responded…
