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26 Jun 2018, 9:11 am
Indeed, he noted, other presidents have done exactly that: President Ronald Reagan suspended the immigration of Cuban nationals to the United States, while President Jimmy Carter issued an order denying visas to Iranian nationals. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 8:05 am
Here is the opening from Chief Justice Roberts' decision for the Court: Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, foreign nationals seeking entry into the United States undergo a vetting process to ensure that they satisfy the numerous requirements for admission. [read post]
17 May 2018, 9:30 pm
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would change its policy on calculating the length of visa overstays for foreign students and exchange visitors. [read post]
10 May 2018, 7:21 am
In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 9:45 pm
It imposed indefinite duration bans on travelers attempting to enter the United States from any of the six primarily Muslim countries that were on the prior lists, but it added two non-Muslim countries to the banned list and exempted travelers who had visas or who qualified for visas. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 11:00 am
For another, the Proclamation would make little sense if its purpose were to prevent the entry of categories of people who pose a heightened risk of terrorism, because it allows the nationals of, e.g., Iran, Libya, and Yemen to continue to enter the U.S. with certain forms of nonimmigrant visas, even though the vetting for such visas is typically less robust than the vetting for immigrant visas that the Proclamation prohibits for such persons.More… [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 1:46 pm
Breyer focused on EO-3’s waiver provisions, which our amicus brief showed had resulted in remarkably few visa grants given the many immigrants affected by the travel ban. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 11:58 am
Avoid the Statutory Claim Altogether Early on in the proceedings, Chief Justice John Roberts floated an argument that would be in keeping with his preference for judicial minimalism. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 11:34 am
And he cited the case of a 10-year-old Yemeni girl with cerebral palsy, who hoped to come to the United States for life-saving medical care that she could not obtain in war-torn Yemen but was denied a visa. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 9:05 am
Later in the oral argument, Kennedy made some statements that seemed to lean towards the government on the statutory issue, of whether the travel ban violates Congress' prohibition on nationality discrimination in issuing immigrant visas. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 6:00 am
That holding would still permit nationality-based discrimination for non-immigrant visas. [read post]
Travel Ban 3.0 Heads to the Supreme Court: Win or Lose the Battle, the Resistance is Winning the War
23 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
The administration rolled it out without any grace period and with crucial ambiguities, such as whether it barred admission to the country of permanent residents or people with other valid visas. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 1:02 pm
The chief of media relations for the USCIS said that while the agency was considering regulatory and policy changes, “the USCIS is not considering a regulatory change that would force H-1B visa holders to leave the United States,” as long as their green card cases are pending. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 2:15 pm
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, issued a series of internal cables to consulates and embassies abroad instructing them of new measures to increase vetting of immigrant and non-immigrant visa applicants. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 9:30 am
I have no doubt that, as Chief Justice Warren Burger observed, “[t]he plenary authority of Congress over aliens under Art. [read post]
23 Dec 2017, 5:39 am
At issue in the courts now is the most sweeping of the three executive orders that Trump has signed since January: it imposed a permanent ban on entry into the U.S. by some 150 million foreign nationals from six countries, with entry possible only on a person-by-person basis when individuals are found eligible for visas. [read post]
18 Dec 2017, 10:08 am
Millions of immigrants entered illegally. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 10:00 am
To shield the government from this criticism, Mooppan sought to , discount § 1152(a)(1)(A) as a mere technical measure barring discrimination in the physical issuance of a hard-copy immigrant visa, but not discrimination in the entry of visa-holders into the United States. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 1:00 am
Immigration – SIAC – bail. [read post]
6 Nov 2017, 6:08 am
This is why following the Paris attacks in 2015, the DHS strengthened the visa waiver program to respond to the threat from foreign fighter returnees who may have traveled to join ISIS in Syria and Iraq but held European passports eligible for visa-free travel to the United States. [read post]
