White House, Sept. 30, 2024 "MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the...
BIB Daily presents bimonthly PERM practice tips from Ron Wada , member of the Editorial Board for Bender’s Immigration Bulletin and author of the 10+ year series of BALCA review articles, “Shaping...
Texas v. Mayorkas "In September 2022, after a notice-and-comment period, the Biden administration promulgated a new Rule redefining the term ["public charge"]. In response, the State of...
White House, Sept. 30, 2024 "...I have now concluded that in order to better achieve Proclamation 10773’s goal of enhancing our ability to address historic levels of migration and more efficiently...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/01/2024 "This public notice provides information on how to apply for the DV-2026 Program and is issued pursuant to the Immigration...
"This case comes down to the following: many years after Szilagyi and Colon separated, one of them swore that they had initially lived together for a few months, and the other swore that they never lived together. Two other witnesses (Balagyan and Janky) support plaintiffs’ version, and the documentary evidence is slim and equivocal. Merely choosing to believe Colon instead of the others does not satisfy the government’s burden of identifying substantial and probative evidence that the marriage was fraudulent, and in light of that specific burden of proof, no reasonable person could reach the conclusion reached by the government here." - Delcore v. Holder, N.D. Il., ED, No. 13 CV 8266, Apr. 20, 2015.
"Plaintiffs' attorney Shannon M. Shepherd said Tuesday that “we are obviously very pleased with Judge Shah’s decision.” The plaintiffs are represented by Shannon Marie Shepherd of Immigration Attorneys LLP." - Law360