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Instruct Us Again on the Immigration Rules
With the 2012 presidential campaign in full throb, candidates Obama and Romney are embracing "the vision thing" -- that nemesis of the first President Bush whose reelection effort reportedly failed...
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Rendering unto the Immigration Caesars
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's ... Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 22:21 I send greetings to all those observing Public Service Recognition Week 2012. Each day, our country benefits from...
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With Hope Springing Eternally, ACUS Is Working on Immigration Again
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" ~ Satchel Paige One of the benefits of having played in the immigration sandbox for a long time is to see old friends return. A fondly...
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L-1B Spécialité Horrifique: The Immigration War on the Consulting Industry...
Last week, the American Council on International Personnel (ACIP) convened its 40th annual symposium in Pentagon City VA, just outside Washington DC, an event attended by scores of immigration managers...
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The President Has Spoken -- Can DHS Make the Immigration DREAM Come True?
The portents were plentiful, reaching back 30 years. Yet none but a clairvoyant could have predicted the aftermath on June 15, 1982 when the Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe provided undocumented...
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Immigration Lawyers Arguing: "Can I Work from Home for a Foreign Employer?"
[Blogger's note: Whether by dint of nature or nurture, lawyers love to argue; immigration lawyers perhaps more so. Unlike our colleagues (outside of immigration practice) for whom sources of law are...
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Immigration Good Behavior -- a Riddle Riddled with Riddles
"[A] riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma" ~ Winston Churchill The most quotable of British Prime Ministers could well have been talking about the American immigration system rather than...
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Immigration D-Day for DACA: Get Protection!
[Blogger's note: Tomorrow, August 15, 2012, is perhaps as momentous to DREAMers as D-Day, June 6, 1944, was to The Greatest Generation. The invasion of Normandy marked the end of World War II in...
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Hey, Immigration Bureaucrats: Corporations Are NOT People!
At least by 1602 with the chartering of the Dutch East India Company, and perhaps as early as the 1300s with the formation of the first colleganza, a rudimentary joint-stock company set up in Venice to...
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Reforming Immigration "with Liberty and Justice for All"
As Republicans join Democrats in contemplating reform of the nation's dysfunctional immigration system, the final line of the Pledge of Allegiance ("with liberty and justice for all") is the best place...
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Guest Blog: All I Got for Christmas Was a Crumb-y Immigration Compliance...
[Blogger's Note: Today's post brings a bit of holiday cheer from my colleague and I-9 expert, Nicole ("Nici") Kersey. I want to publicly thank her for allowing me a Christmas break from blogging, and...
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The New I-9: Why Now When We Need Immigration Amnesty for Employers?
The New I-9: Why Now When We Need Immigration Amnesty for Employers? By Nicole Kersey and Angelo A. Paparelli Irony was plentiful last week in Washington and around the country. One particularly...
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Immigration Progress: A Good EB-5 Policy Memo Could Still Be Better
French philosopher and aphorist, François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire, wrote in Italian that "Il meglio è l'inimico del bene [the perfect is the enemy of the good]." The...
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Four Post-Infosys Strategies for Corporate Customers and Consultants to...
Samuel Herbert, Her Majesty's Home Secretary from 1931-32 (the British equivalent of the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security), could well have been speaking about two recent immigration-related events...
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The Immigration-Abandonment Ploy -- Fallout from a Fiddling Congress and...
The times they are a-mournin' for proponents of immigrant rights and immigration reform. While Pope Francis shows the world how to love by embracing and praying with a tumor-scarred man,...
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Immigration Dreaming in California -- Assembly Bill 263 Will Bring Nightmares...
“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.” ― Don DeLillo, White Noise “Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized...
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Tips from an Immigration Insider: How to Excel at a U.S. Visa Interview
Ellis Island, which opened as an immigration processing post on January 1st 122 years ago, symbolizes for many Americans of immigrant descent the place where would-be entrants to the U.S. learned...
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