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31 Dec 2013, 8:38 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
 This IMMI goes to USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas (since confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) who achieved more than any previous Director of USCIS or Commissioner of the legacy agency, Immigration and Naturalization Service, in my 35+ year lifetime as an immigration attorney. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 5:38 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
 This IMMI goes to USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas (since confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) who achieved more than any previous Director of USCIS or Commissioner of the legacy agency, Immigration and Naturalization Service, in my 35+ year lifetime as an immigration attorney. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 8:38 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
 This IMMI goes to USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas (since confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) who achieved more than any previous Director of USCIS or Commissioner of the legacy agency, Immigration and Naturalization Service, in my 35+ year lifetime as an immigration attorney. [read post]
30 Sep 2013, 11:47 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
”  The agency’s rationale might be legitimate if it were based on regulations in force before enactment of the Immigration Act of 1990 (the 1990 Act). [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 6:55 am by Eric S. Solotoff
Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas indicated that not only would USCIS comply with Secretary Napolitano’s directive to immediately implement the Supreme Court’s Decision, but that his office has maintained a list of all I-130 applications (U.S. [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 3:03 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
If USCIS were to pursue the admittedly slow procedure envisioned under the Administrative Procedure Act for publishing notice of a rule and the opportunity for the public to comment, none of the quoted verbiage, wiggle words no doubt drafted by the USCIS Office of Chief Counsel, would be necessary. [read post]
27 May 2013, 6:19 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
Congress should recognize its mistake when, in passing the Homeland Security Act, it moved USCIS, the immigration benefits agency, from the Justice Department, where that function had historically resided, and co-mingled it irreconcilably with immigration enforcement at DHS. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 5:51 pm by Susan Hennessey
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the State Department make citizenship-revocation determinations. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 10:33 am by Jacob Sapochnick
USCIS accepts an oral agreement, as evidenced by the summation of the elements of the oral agreement. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 6:08 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
I propose that Congress re-visit the Homeland Security Act and determine whether it makes sense to house USCIS in the Homeland Security Department, rather than in the Justice Department, given that justice is a better alignment of USCIS's mission in terms of weighing the scales and meting out a fair decision grounded in facts and law. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 10:08 am by Jacob Sapochnick
During the public engagement on January 15, 2013, USCIS’s Director Alejandro Mayorkas has announced that in the coming weeks USCIS is planning to hold several webinars on the use of the online Policy Manual and to provide clarifications and explain new policies. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 4:40 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
MAJOR CHANGES IN IMPLEMENTATION COMPARED TO DRAFT REGULATIONS During the public engagement, Director of USCIS Alejandro Mayorkas has noted that USCIS has implemented or will implement three (3) major changes in the final rule that did not appear in the draft regulations: 1) First of all, USCIS has emphasized that aliens may be eligible to file for a provisional unlawful presence waiver more than once if the waiver was denied or been withdrawn provided that other… [read post]
31 Dec 2012, 1:13 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
Persisting in their special brand of akrasia (weakness of will; acting in a way contrary to one's sincerely held moral values). [read post]
20 Nov 2012, 3:10 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Chinese EB-5 applicant may soon be subject to a wait list. [read post]
18 Nov 2012, 11:43 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
  The Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) of USCIS has no place in an agency charged with conferring immigration benefits on deserving petitioners and applicants. [read post]
19 Aug 2012, 3:56 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
USCIS knows that Congress, the Media, the Presidential campaigns, and the pro- and anti-immigration interest groups will be watching closely to see whether the agency can handle the estimated 1.7 million youth potentially eligible for DACA, whether fraud will infect the program or be minimized, whether the agency will act with humanitarian compassion under law or ICE-like negativity in exercising prosecutorial discretion, and whether employers who help a DREAMer acknowledge… [read post]