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Former INS Attorney Carl Shusterman has been writing an immigration blog on a regular basis since 1996.

New Circuit Court Decisions on CSPA Hold Promise

While we await the decisions of the 5th and the 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals in the “automatic conversion” cases, two other circuits have issued decisions on other sections of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) which reject the government’s restrictive interpretations. On July 19, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the government in […]

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Is CSPA Controversy Headed for the Supreme Court?

Congress passed the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) in 2002 to prevent children from becoming separated from their immigrant parents after waiting for many years for their papers to be processed and their priority dates to become current. Prior to CSPA, even if a child was an infant when his family was sponsored for green […]

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USCIS Social Media
Good Information, but Hard to Find

I suspect that most of you use the USCIS website. After all, it gets about 30 million page views a month. But did you know about the USCIS’ Social Media? USCIS has a newsletter, a blog, YouTube videos, and numerous RSS feeds. If not, apparently you are not alone. Take their three excellent E-Verify videos, all uploaded […]

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CSPA Oral Arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit

On May 12, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York heard CSPA oral arguments regarding a case challenging the government’s restrictive interpretation of the Child Status Protection Act’s’s “automatic conversion” clause. Both Attorney Scott Bratton and the Assistant U.S. Attorney were given ten minutes each to […]

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CSPA: Oral Arguments in the 2nd Circuit

On May 12, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York heard oral arguments regarding a case challenging the government’s restrictive interpretation of the CSPA’s “automatic conversion” clause. Both Attorney Scott Bratton and the Assistant U.S. Attorney were given ten minutes each to present their arguments. Scott was […]

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CSPA: Immigration Judge Distinguishes Matter of Wang

While waiting for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to schedule oral arguments in the class action lawsuit seeking to overturn the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals in Matter of Wang, I recently came across a decision of an Immigration Judge which distinguishes Matter of Wang and allows an “aged-out” son of permanent […]

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One Immigrant’s 20 Year Journey to a Green Card

One Immigrant’s 20 Year Journey to a Green Card reminds us of some of the challenges immigrants face in obtaining permanent residence. A lot of IT professionals born in India justly feel that their immigration cases have been going on forever. We recently concluded a case for an Indian IT professional which was one of the longest […]

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H-1B Filing Season Starts April 1 OPT Cap-Gap Rule – Affiliation

Each year, there is an 85,000 numerical cap on the number of H-1B petitions for professionals to work in the U.S. on a temporary basis. Generally, the USCIS will start accepting H-1B petitions submitted by employers starting on April 1 for workers who will start their jobs on October 1, 2011. Of these 85,000 H-1Bs, 20,000 […]

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“How Immigration Works for America – From Brawn to Brains”

We take this title from2010 Annual Report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The report, which was released in March 2011, discusses the urgent need to reform the U.S. immigration system to allow for the admission of  increased numbers of high-skilled immigrant workers. The preface to the report states: “Immigrants help fuel the U.S. economy, […]

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  Welcome to our website! After 9 months of labor, our new website was born on February 17th. I hope that you will agree that after 16 years of being a content-rich, but a rather ugly-looking site, the new site is considerably better looking. I also hope that the site is easier to use for […]

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