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Insight, News, and Strategy on Immigration Matters Around the World
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While Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that it stopped issuing I-94 arrival/departure cards on May 21, 2013 (instead, the foreign passport is stamped and the entry is recorded electronically; the record can be accessed online), some land ports of entry still issue actual I-94 cards. Despite the new system, foreign nationals have reported…
On July 1, 2013, USCIS announced its latest “customer service enhancement” to E-Verify. If an employee voluntarily provides his or her email address on the Form I-9, E-Verify will notify the employee directly of a Tentative Non- Confirmation (TNC) at the same time it notifies the employer. Given that E-Verify monitors how an employer…
Despite decisive passage of S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, on June 27, 2013 by a 68-32 vote in the Senate, recent exhortations from former President George W. Bush to “recognize the benefits immigrants make to our country” and to “keep a benevolent spirit” in the reform debate,…
AUTHOR: Harry J. Joe.
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On July 10, 2013, the Second Circuit, applying the Supreme Court’s ruling in Hoffman Plastics, denied back pay to undocumented bakery workers who were terminated for participating in protected labor activities. The Court rejected the argument that the matter should be distinguished from Hoffman Plastics since the petitioners committed no fraud in obtaining employment. Unlike…
AUTHOR: Harry J. Joe.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has taken another swipe at an Arizona statute that addresses the State’s response to illegal immigration. In Arizona v. Intertribal Council of Arizona, Inc., No. 12-71 (June 17, 2013), the Court invalidated part of Arizona’s voter registration law, which required applicants to submit documentary evidence of citizenship when registering to vote…
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s release of its decision in United States v. Windsor, No. 12-307 (June 26, 2013), DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano issued an updated statement confirming that “President Obama [had] directed federal departments to ensure the decision and its implication for federal benefits for same-sex legally married couples are implemented swiftly and smoothly.”…