The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a settlement with Tuscany Hotel and Casino LLC in Las Vegas resolving a complaint alleging that the company treated non-citizens differently from U.S. citizens during the employment eligibility verification and re-verification process.DOJ alleged that the casino required non-citizen employees to provide more or different documents than citizen…

AUTHOR:  Melina Villalobos

The Tennessee Department of Labor has begun enforcement of the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act (TLEA).  The TLEA went into effect in January of 2012.  (See our article, Tennessee Adopts Worker-Verification Law.)  Under the Act, employers with more than six employees must either use E-Verify or make and retain copies of one of…

An Arizona federal court judge has dissolved a preliminary injunction that was blocking enforcement of a controversial provision of Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070.  Under the provision, law enforcement officials are required to determine the immigration status of any person stopped under state or local law if reasonable suspicion exists that the person is unlawfully present…

The U.S. Embassy in India has announced that a new system for visa processing will be implemented beginning on September 26, 2012.    The Embassy’s new website, www.ustraveldocs.com/in, facilitates many of the changes and is available in English and Hindi.

The biggest change is that a new appointment will be necessary prior to the visa…

Reverse discrimination is defined as the practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.  Reverse discrimination is often alleged, but difficult to prove. A recent class action settlement, however, has revealed that a documented preference for hiring Latino workers who are ineligible to work in the U.S.…

On Thursday, August 23, 2012, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has published a revised version of the new Form I-9 for comment.  The comment period runs through September 21, 2012.

Some of the key revisions to the new form include:

• Maiden Name is changed to Other Names Used
• Includes clarification…

AUTHOR:  HARRY J. JOE

Employers that use the H-2B non-immigrant visa program to obtain unskilled workers from outside the U.S. may need to increase their budgets for these workers following a federal judge’s decision upholding the Department of Labor’s authority to issue a new wage order. U.S. District Court Judge Legrome D. Davis has upheld…

A federal appeals court in Atlanta has struck down portions of Georgia’s controversial “Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act” (H.B. 87) prohibiting the transportation, concealing, or harboring of illegal aliens.  Relying heavily on the recent, highly publicized Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. United States, the Circuit Court found that Section 7 of the measure…