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March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Law school groups back Hastings in high court caseLaw school organizations are lining up behind the University of California Hastings College of the Law in the upcoming Supreme Court argument pitting the school against the Christian Legal Society.
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Emory law professor launches nonprofit to help revitalize vacant propertiesFor 20 years, Emory University School of Law Professor Frank Alexander has helped cities and states find ways to eliminate or revitalize vacant and abandoned properties. Now, Alexander is taking his efforts national with the launch of a new nonprofit organization devoted to land-use policy and vacan..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Cooley Law School wins one, loses one in courtCooley Law School dodged one legal bullet this week but got hit with another. A federal judge on Monday declined to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that a former associate dean was fired in retaliation for opposing faculty nepotism involving a Michigan state judge. But the school fared better when a fede..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Angelo Paparelli follows the money"As Congress considers appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, and as momentum builds for âa tough but fair path forwardâ to regularize the status of 11 million undocumented humans in this country, the time has come to pay the freight and to invest wisely in our nation of immigra..
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / The Unproductive Situation of Picking Underdogs in the NCAA TournamentEarlier this week, we blogged about the role of implicit attitudes in the selection of teams for the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Today we bring your attention to a New York Times piece by Nicholas Bakalar on a study titled, Match Madness: Probability Matching in Prediction of the NCAA Basketba..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Northwestern offers foreign students a fast track LL.M.Northwestern University School of Law on Tuesday announced a new program through which foreign lawyers can complete an LL.M. in just 15 weeks — the shortest program of its kind.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / E-Verify MOU with DOJ: USCIS Q&AUSCIS, Mar. 18, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / Hanson & Kysar To Deliver the 2010 Monsanto LectureSituationist Contributor Jon Hanson and Yale Law Professor Doug Kysar are co-delivering the 2010 Monsanto Lecture on Tort Law and Jurisprudence tomorrow at Valparaiso University School of Law. Their lecture is titled “Abnormally Dangerous: Inequality Dissonance and the Making of Tort Law...
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Univ. of New Hampshire votes to affiliate with Franklin Pierce Law CenterUniv. of New Hampshire votes to affiliate with Franklin Pierce Law Center
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / E-Verify Releases Q&A Discussing TNCs and Employee Rights"Earlier this week, E-Verify released a lengthy Q&A document which addresses questions posed during a DHS-sponsored webinar held last September." John Fay, Mar. 19, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / Subconscious Human Bias in NCAA Tournament SelectionAndy Staples of Sports Illustrated has an engaging column on new research identifying subconscious bias in the selection of teams for the NCAA men's basketball tournament (a.k.a. March Madness). We excerpt it below. * * * The study, by Jay Coleman, Mike DuMond and Allen Lynch, looked at selection ..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Law school creates associate deanship to promote diversityThe University of Denver Sturm College of Law has tapped professor Catherine Smith for a newly-created associate dean position to promote diversity and inclusiveness within the institution.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / GAO on SBInet - ReportSECURE BORDER INITIATIVE: DHS Needs to Address Testing and Performance Limitations That Place Key Technology Program at Risk. GAO, Jan. 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / Tort Law’s Distributional InjusticeAnita Bernstein, posted her recent review essay, titled “Distributive Justice Through Tort (And Why Sociolegal Scholars Should Care)” (forthcoming 35 Law of Social Inquiry) on SSRN. Here's the abstract. * * * Drawing on two books central to an emerging sociolegal literature about tort..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / In defense of NALPIt's time to clarify some of the misperceptions as to what NALP is and to highlight the good work that the organization does.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / GAO on SBInet - testimonyTestimony Before the Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittees on Management, Investigations, and Oversight; and Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism, Mar. 18, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / The Situation of the Health Care DebateA Harvard Law student wrote a worthwhile post on Law & Mind a few weeks ago about some of the dynamics behind the health care debate. Here is an excerpt. * * * How should an institution inspire collective action? What’s the best strategy? The conventional wisdom is that to solve a collective..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Cardozo programs match the law with public health and bioethicsStudents at the Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law will have two new joint degree options next year. Cardozo will add a joint degree program in which students can earn both a juris doctor and a master's of public health degree and is awaiting final state approval for a program that..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Nevarez Nevarez on remandBob Jobe writes: "Here's the BIA decision in Nevarez-Nevarez v. Holder, 572 F.3d 605 (9th Cir. 2009), regarding the application of Dada to motions filed while Azarte was in effect." Matter of Nevarez Nevarez, A079-601-023, Mar. 12, 2010, unpub.
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / Jon Hanson on Situationism and DispositionismSituationist Contributor was recently interviewed by Big Think. Here is his answer to the following questions: “What is wrong with our legal system's notion of human behavior?”; and “What led you to study the link between law and cognition?” * * * * * * For a sample of relat..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Summer associate offers hits 17-year lowThird-year law students have been lamenting the unfortunate timing of their entry into the job market. Now they have some cold, hard numbers to quantify their woes. The median number of offers by U.S. law firms for 2010 summer associate positions was seven, according to NALP statistics. That's down ..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Palestinian Zadvydas habeas victory in M.D. Pa.Hats off to Boston University student attorneys Jen Klein and Emily Tucker, Professor Susan Akram, and Elizabeth Badger! Elashi v. Sabol, No. 4:09-cv-02201-MM, M.D. Pa., Mar. 18, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / The Policy Situation of ObesityIn 2004, Peter Jennings hosted an outstanding report, titled “How To Get Fat Without even Trying,” in which he explored some of the situational factors, including federal government agricultural policies and food industry practices, that are contributing to Americas obesity epidemic. ..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Legal education reformer steps down as dean of Dayton School of LawUniversity of Dayton School of Law Dean Lisa Kloppenberg will step down at the close of the 2010-11 academic year to return to teaching. Kloppenberg has held the school's top administrative position since 2001 and is recognized as a national leader in the law school curriculum reform movement.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Rights Groups to ICE: Stop Raids for CensusImmigration enforcement was reduced during 1990, 2000 census; what will Obama do in 2010? NAM, Mar. 12, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / Mahzarin Banaji at Harvard Law SchoolOn Thursday, March 11th, the HLS Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) is hosting a talk by Harvard psychology professor Mahzarin Banaji entitled “Mind Bugs and the Science of Ordinary Bias.” Here's the description. * * * How deep are the bounds on human thinking and fee..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Law school rankings complicate diversity efforts, research suggestsResearch by two social scientists suggests that the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings aren't helping legal educators build a more diverse student body. Deans and admissions officers told the researchers that the pressure to maintain or improve their U.S. News rankings can mean fewer slots..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / The Business of Human Smuggling on the Mexican BorderSacha Feinman, Aug. 2009. [Don't know how I missed this, 7 months ago, but still fresh.]
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / Situationism in the BlogosphereBelow, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during February 2010 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From Ambigamy: “Consciously unconscious: Reflections on the annual social psychology conference” “I just go..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / NALP settles for modest reform of summer associate recruitingThe National Association for Law Placement decided Friday to back off a plan that would delay the summer associate offer process by as many as four months. Instead, it adopted two smaller changes to the recruiting guidelines: The deadline for students to accept offers will drop from 45 days to 28 da..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / USCIS Centralizes Processing of Orphan Adoptions"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that on April 1, 2010, it is centralizing processing and adjudication of all new orphan (Non-Hague) petitions with the agencyâs specialized adoptions team in Missouri. Prospective adoptive parents will continue to file their Petition to ..
March 20, 1:53 PM / The Situationist / Sheena Iyengar’s Situation and the Situation of ChoosingLast week, Situationist friend, Sheena Iyengar, was interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show (American University Radio) about her new book, “The Art of Choosing.” The show's description is as follows: “The power of choice: Understanding the motivations, biases, and cultural influences..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Law school buys naming rights to minor league ball parkThomas M. Cooley Law School has acquired the naming rights to a minor league baseball stadium in Lansing, Michigan. The school will pay nearly $1.5 million to the Lansing Lugnuts during the 11-year naming contract.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / With Ban on H.I.V. Immigrants Now History, Relief and Revision"Experts say tens of thousands shared similarly interrupted lives thanks to a 22-year United States ban on allowing foreigners with H.I.V. to live in this country." NYT, Mar. 18, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Maryland legislature looking into 'questionable' payments to former law deanThe former dean of the University of Maryland School of Law has retained the managing partner of DLA Piper's Baltimore office after a university audit found that she received more than $400,000 in "questionable compensation payments" between 2007 and 2009.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Aguila-Montes de Oca Amici BriefAmici brief filed on behalf of Asian Law Caucus, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, Immigration Clinic of UC Davis School of Law, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, National Immigration Project of National Lawyers Guild, and Washington Defenders Association Immigration Project.
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / Study finds sharp decline in law review circulationIt's not just newspapers that are losing paid readership. Flagship law reviews have seen paid circulation decline significantly during the past three decades, with some facing particularly steep drop-offs lately, according to a study by a George Mason University law professor.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Border patrol arrests man for crossing street"For the residents of Derby Line, crossing back and forth between the US and Canada unfettered had been no big deal for years. But last year, gates went up at the major crossings in the town, "as part of added security measures," reports WCAX. And now, at least one resident of Derby Line has been ar..
March 20, 1:53 PM / NLJ.com: Law Schools / 3M donates patents to Univ. of Minnesota Law SchoolWhy write a check when you can donate a patent or three? 3M Co. took a creative tack with a recent gift to the University of Minnesota Law School by donating three royalty-bearing patents, which are expected to generate $2 million during the next five years.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Changing bad laws"In the U.S., we change stupid and broken laws. That is why first lady Michelle Obama and women across the U.S. can vote. That is why President Obama and I can eat at the same lunch counters in the South. A law that allows the destruction of 400,000 families a year is immoral. Obama needs to make an..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / DHS Announces E-Verify Initiatives and Defends Accuracy RateJohn Fay, Mar. 17, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Facing Deportation"For each person detained in immigration actions, an estimated additional 3.5 people are directly affected. Those affected are mothers, fathers, children and spouses. An estimated 35,000 people were placed in detention proceedings during 2008, many of them through the efforts of local law-enforcemen..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Fourth Circuit on Zimbabwe, economic persecutionMirasawo v. Holder, Mar. 17, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Immigration Policy in the US: What's Next?Albany Government Law Review.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Immigration Reform, One Taco At A timeâThrough Tacos for Justice the simple act of eating is converted into an act of social justice,â said Erin Glenn, Executive Director of the Asociación de Loncheros L.A. Familia Unida de California. âOur trucks will give a 10 percent discount to every patron as well as donate to the National I..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Matter of Saysana revisited: AILA Amicus Committee files brief to BIA"In short, the Amicus team is asking the BIA to follow the plain language of the law: mandatory detention applies when ICE detains a noncitizen removable for one of the INA § 236(c)(1) offenses "when released" from criminal custody. The statute (and anyone's simple notion of justice) requires a nex..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Navy Recruits Become US Citizens Through New MAVNI Program"For the new Sailors, becoming American citizens has been a long-time dream." Navy, Mar. 17, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / New immigration jail in ArizonaICE, Mar. 17, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Obama on Immigration: Then and Now"Waiting, and hoping, doesn't make our borders safe. It doesn't keep families together. It doesn't strengthen our economy. It doesn't bring human beings out of the shadows so they can work harder and pay more taxes. Only action now by President Obama and this Congress will bring fairness and justice..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Unpub. BIA citizenship victoryRuchi Thaker writes: "Our client was charged with an aggravated felony and his only hope was to be declared a US Citizen. There was no legal separation between the parents but there was a final restraining order which gave the physical custody to the mother, a U.S. citizen prior to the clientâs 18..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / USCIS Demands $111,930 FOIA Processing Fee"The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) today filed a protest with U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) objecting to the agency's extraordinary demand that the university-based data research organization pay the agency $111,930 for a description of the information stored i..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Virtual U.S.-Mexico Border Fence At A Virtual End"The Department of Homeland Security's plan to build a virtual fence across the U.S.-Mexico border has come to a crashing halt just days before the release of a report expected to slam the system." Ted Robbins, NPR, Mar. 17, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Why One Undocumented Student is Walking the Trail of DreamsCarlos is one of the four Trail of Dreams walkers â students walking 1,500 miles from Miami to Washington, D.C. âwho are calling for the implementation of The Dream Act.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / A Moment of Truth on Immigration Reform"The people who will be in Washington on Sunday will be marching behind a banner that reads âChange Takes Courage.â By their faith in democracy they are showing that they have the courage. Letâs hope our elected leaders in Washington muster up some of their own." Frank Sharry, Mar. 16, 2010...
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Business/Labor Blowout Imperils Immigration Reform"As if the prospects for serious overhaul of the immigration system weren't dim enough in an economic downturn, organizations representing business and labor--groups that have supported immigration reform--are now publicly fighting each other." Jeffrey Kaye, Mar. 16, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / DHS Unveils Initiatives to Enhance E-Verify"Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today joined U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas to announce a trio of initiatives to strengthen the efficiency and accuracy of the E-Verify system. These initiatives include a new agreement w..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / ICE Confirms Employers Have 10 days to Correct Technical I-9 Errors"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently confirmed that employers should be provided 10 days to cure technical or procedural paperwork violations following a government I-9 audit." John Fay, Mar. 17, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Immigration reform: Stuck in the shadows""There's huge discontent, especially among the young," says Angelica Salas, who heads the Coalition for Humane Immigration Reform of Los Angeles. "They see their parents snatched away, they have to put their lives on hold." (There are an estimated 4 million U.S.-born American-citizen children of un..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Matter of PEREZ RAMIREZ, Interim Decision #3675, 25 I&N Dec. 203 (BIA 2010)Matter of PEREZ RAMIREZ, Interim Decision #3675, 25 I&N Dec. 203 (BIA 2010) - (1) Where a criminal alienâs sentence has been modified to include a term of imprisonment following a violation of probation, the resulting sentence to confinement is considered to be part of the penalty imposed for the ..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Move Across Hudson Further Isolates Immigration Detainees"Under a contract with a private telephone company, calls to detaineesâ families and lawyers back in New York are decidedly long distance. The result is a 800 percent increase in the cost of a call, to more than 89 cents a minute, in a phone system so cumbersome that detainees say it impedes their..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / New immigrants avoiding big cities, study finds"New immigrants who once flocked to the large "gateway" cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago are now heading for smaller metropolitan areas like Detroit and Minneapolis, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sarasota, Fla., and El Paso, Tex., according to the the study, released by the Lus..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Punishing immigrants"Who would have thought that Team Obama would make "driving while immigrant" an enforceable offense?" Robert Koulish, the author of "Immigration and American Democracy: Subverting the Rule of Law" will be a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University ..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Truth-O-Meter: Perry's border claims rate "pants on fire" reading"We rate Perry's sweeping statement based on an unreasonable manipulation of crime statistics -- the second instance of his administration touting questionable border crime numbers -- as Pants on Fire." PolitiFact, Mar. 16, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Why Immigration Boosts Wagesâand Not Just In California"While immigrants are blamed for dragging down American wages and stealing jobs, University of California, Davis, economist Giovanni Peri comes to a different conclusion. In a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Peri trowels through nearly five decades of immigration data and finds t..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Work to cease on 'virtual fence' along U.S.-Mexico border"In a statement, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) called SBInet "a grave and expensive disappointment."" WaPo, Mar. 16, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Neufeld P-2 memoClarifying Guidance on Adjudicating Reciprocal Exchange Agreements; Revisions to the Adjudicatorâs Field Manual (AFM) Chapter 33.6(d); AFM Update AD10-28.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Your editor back in solo practiceFind me at 512-826-0323, fax 512-692-2621, dan ** at ** cenizo.com.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / VISA BULLETIN FOR APRIL 2010"D. BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD POINTS - Applicants entitled to immigrant status become documentarily qualified at their own initiative and convenience. By no means has every applicant with a priority date earlier than a prevailing cut-off date been processed for final visa ac..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Cyrus Mehta on Kazarian"The recent decision in Kazarian v. USCIS ... goes a long way in discrediting the circularity argument that the USCIS often deploys to shoot down petitions filed under the extraordinary ability category (EB-1). Even though the petitioner lost in this case, the new re-issued decision is still a victo..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / AAO Hardship VictoryLisa Brodyaga writes: "AAO victory on an I-601 for a woman with two shoplifting convictions might be useful for the reasoning regarding hardship to family members, and citation to 9th Cir. cases!"
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Angelo Paparelli on D.C. kabuki theatreHave you seen "Waiting for Barack?" Will we ever?
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / E-Verify Horror StoriesExample: "A U.S. citizen and former captain in the U.S. Navy with 34 years of service and a history of having maintained high security clearance was flagged by E-Verify as not eligible for employment. It took him and his wife, an attorney, two months to resolve the discrepancy." NILC, Mar. 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Immigration Court Caseload ToolPending Cases and Length of Wait in Immigration Courts. TRAC, Mar. 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights PracticesDOS, Mar. 11, 2010.
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / IAN seeks Director"Immigration Advocates Network Director: The Immigration Advocates Network (IAN) (www.immigrationadvocates.org) is a national collaboration developed to enhance and unify the work of the nation's immigrants' rights organizations by providing an online resource and communication site to support joint..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / IJ Yeargin in SF grants asylum to Tibetan"The factual circumstances surrounding Respondent's arrest and beating demonstrate that the Chinese government viewed veneration of the Dalai Lama as an expression of political dissent, that Respondent demonstrated this veneration by participating in a celebration of the Dalai Lama's birthday, and f..
March 20, 1:53 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / New ICE memo explains how officials should address detained U.S. citizens"On the heels of several reports documenting U.S. citizens who have been detained or even deported by federal immigration officers, a top Homeland Security Department official in November issued a memo that aims to guide his agency on what to do when a person suspected of being illegally in the coun..
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Stephen Manning on Diaz & Lopez, Briones, Acosta"As much as it pains us to write this, Matter of Diaz and Lopez is a correct statement of Brand X law."
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / USCIS Reminds Chilean Nationals of Immigration Benefits Available"In light of the recent natural catastrophes in Chile, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds Chileans of U.S. immigration benefits available to eligible Chilean nationals upon request." USCIS, Mar. 10, 2010.
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Unpub. BIA Non-LPR cancellation victory"We conclude that the health difficulties faced by one of the respondent's children present the type of very serious health issues to which we referred in Matter of Monreal-Aguinaga, 23 I&N Dec. 56 (BIA 2001), and so cancellation of removal should be granted here." Matter of AXXX-XXX-410 - San Franc..
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / USCIS Reminds Petitioners to Provide Approved Labor Condition Applications"As of March 10, 2010, USCIS will reject any H-1B petition filed without an LCA certified by DOL." USCIS, Mar. 10, 2010.
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Proposals for Agency Action to Ameliorate the Priority Dates Crisis"Preview/summary of an article, Tyranny of Priority Dates, by Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta, forthcoming in Benderâs Immigration Bulletin, which was sent to USCIS Director Mayorkas. Mr. Mayorkas expressed interest in the ideas contained in Tyranny of Priority Dates at a stakeholderâs meeting ..
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Starving for Reform"Inmates in a South Texas detention facility began a series of staggered hunger strikes in January, hoping for better conditions and fewer transfers, as advocates pleaded for the federal government to come through on failed promises to reform the immigrant-detention system. Those failings, they argu..
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / USCIS to Accept H-1B Petitions for Fiscal Year 2011 Beginning April 1, 2010"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2011 cap on April 1, 2010. Cases will be considered accepted on the date that USCIS takes possession of a properly filed petition with the correct fee; not t..
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Annual Report of Immigrant Visa Applicants in the Family-sponsored and Employment-based preferences Registered at the National Visa Center as of November 1, 2009"The following figures have been compiled from the NVC report submitted to the Department on November 3, 2009, and show the number of immigrant visa applicants on the waiting list in the various preferences and subcategories subject to numerical limit."
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Monthly Determination of Employment Preference Cut-Off DatesDOS, March 2010.
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / THE OPERATION OF THE IMMIGRANT NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMDOS, undated.
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Center for Immigrants' Rights and PIRC release a toolkit on LPR cancellation of removal"Today, the Center and PIRC released a toolkit for practitioners on cancellation of removal for lawful permanent residents (LPR), a form of relief available to certain lawful permanent residents (green card holders) facing removal." Mar. 5, 2010. [WARNING: the PDF toolkit is huge; 179 pages, 31MB.]
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Are You Serious About Jobs?"Immigrants donât stand in the way of economic growthâthey actually feed it. Numerous economic studies from across the ideological spectrum show that immigrant workers are important to economic growth." Angela Maria Kelley, Gebe Martinez, Mar. 2, 2010.
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / H-2A Briefing MaterialsMarch 2, 2010: H-2A Briefing Materials "The Office of Foreign Labor Certification and the Wage and Hour Division have conducted 3 public briefings to advise stakeholders of the contents of the new H-2A Final Rule, which will be effective March 15, 2010."
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / DOS Telegram: New Criteria for VaccinationsSTATE 010379, 02/10: "On November 13, 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (HHS/CDC) published a final notice in the Federal Register amending the criteria for vaccination requirements for U.S. immigration, eliminating the requirement to have ..
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Link to BIBDE on your firm websiteThe Denver firm of Elkind Alterman Harston PC has a link to BIBDE on its website. Great idea! [Denver is my home town, and I shared office space with Phil Alterman from 1988-1996. He's a genius.]
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Rethinking Immigration DetentionAnil Kalhan, Drexel University - Earle Mack School of Law, Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Vol. 110, 2010.
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / The Measure of a Society: The Treatment of Unaccompanied Refugee and Immigrant Children in the United StatesWendy Young and Megan McKenna, Kids In Need of Defense (âKINDâ), 45 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 247 (2010.)
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / USCIS announces grants"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today the availability of two different grants designed to help prepare lawful permanent residents (LPRs) for citizenship and advance integration in the United States. This yearâs program will make nearly $7 million available for citizen..
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / EOIR FY 2009 Statistical Yearbook"The Executive Office for Immigration Review announced today that it has released its Fiscal Year 2009 Statistical Year Book." EOIR, Mar. 2, 2010.
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Expanding E-Verify Would Hurt American Workers and BusinessIPC, Mar. 2, 2010.
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Immigration Relief for Crime Victims: The U Visa ManualPrepared by the NYATN Legal Subcommittee: Suzanne B. Seltzer / Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer LLP, Suzanne Tomatore / Immigrant Women and Child Project, ABCNY, Ivy Suriyopas / Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Shonnie Ball / Safe Horizon, with invaluable assistance from: Aviania Iliadi..
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Refugee Roulette: the PowerPointGraphics from "Disparities in Asylum Adjudication," by Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag, 60 STANFORD L. REV. 295 (2007).
March 20, 1:52 PM / Bender's Immigration Bulletin / Tempering Justice With Mercy: Waivers Of Inadmissibility In Consular Processing"An inadmissibility finding by a U.S. Consular Officer is not necessarily the end of the road for aliens who wish to travel or immigrate to the United States. Various sections of the Immigration and Naturalization Act ("INA") provide waivers for most grounds of ineligibility, effectively allowing co..