Carl Shusterman Immigration Lawyer Blog

Supreme Court Immigration Decisions

We link to all immigration law decisions made by the Supreme Court of the United States from 1958 to the present. We link not only to the decisions themselves, but to the audios of the oral arguments before the Court, a summary of the facts of the case, the question before the Court and the […]

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Update on CSS

On January 16, 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued the deci sion in the CSS v. Reno predicted by the December 5, 1997 letter by the plaintiffs’ attorneys reprinted below. Essentially, the Court ruled in favor of the government, and ordered the District Court to dismiss all of the plaintiffs’ […]

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Newsletter US Immigration Update August 2010

Volume Fifteen, Number Seven Special Message: With increased privacy and security concerns around the inbox, mostly due to viruses and spam, delivering our monthly newsletter to your e-mail address presents many challenges. Sometimes you don’t receive our newsletter. However, if you add our e-mail address to your address book or safe list, this should insure […]

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Hollywood vs. USCIS

In 2008, all four Oscar winners in the acting categories went to foreign-born persons: Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor), Marion Cotillard (Best Actress), Javier Bardem (Best Supporting Actor), and Tilda Swinton (Best Supporting Actress). Of course, these actors were all selected by their colleagues, and what do they know about acting? Imagine if the Oscar winners were […]

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Back Door Amnesty? Read the Memo!

On July 29, the National Review Online broke the story about a leaked USCIS memo entitled “Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform”. Immediately, Senate Republicans went on the attack. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) did not hesitate to invoke the dreaded “A word”: “This memo give credence to our concerns that the administration will go to great lengths to […]

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Judge Overturns Arizona Law

On July 28, Federal District Court Judge Susan Bolton granted a preliminary injunction against major sections of Arizona’s new immigration law which were scheduled to become effective the following day. In a 36-page decision, Judge Bolton found that the United States is “likely to succeed on the merits in showing that the following sections of […]

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August 2010 Visa Bulletin – The Great Leap Forward?

For the past three years, all of our articles about the monthly Visa Bulletin have been filled with gloom and doom as the EB numbers continued to retrogress. Absent a legislative fix, we are not about to uncork any bottles of champagne this month. However, we would be remiss if we failed to note that the […]

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Guess Who’s Coming to the United States

Ever wonder how many people get green cards in the U.S. in a year? In 2009, the number was 1.1 million, slightly above the numbers in 2007 and 2008. And what countries did the immigrants come from?  Did the number of immigrants coming from one country exceed 50% of the total? Hardly! Only 15% of […]

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Newsletter US Immigration Update July 2010

Volume Fifteen, Number Six Special Message: With increased privacy and security concerns around the inbox, mostly due to viruses and spam, delivering our monthly newsletter to your e-mail address presents many challenges. Sometimes you don’t receive our newsletter. However, if you add our e-mail address to your address book or safe list, this should insure […]

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Update on the CSPA Lawsuit

Last April, we submitted our opening brief to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the government’s restrictive interpretation of the “automatic conversation” clause of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA). Recently, the government asked for additional time to submit their reply brief, and also requested that our lawsuit be combined with a nationwide class action lawsuit involving […]

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