DHS, July 2, 2024 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Council on Combating Gender-Based Violence (CCGBV) has two announcements to share with you. Building on DHS’s commitment to improving...
CMS, July 5, 2024 "President Biden’s recent decision to extend parole-in-place to the undocumented spouses of US citizens who entered the country without inspection is a significant first...
DHS OIG, July 3, 2024 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) did not adjudicate affirmative asylum applications in a timely manner to meet statutory timelines and to reduce its existing...
Miliyon Ethiopis, July 8, 2024 "I feel like I have been born again, after a U.S. immigration court made a remarkable ruling in my “statelessness” case in June . I hope that my case will...
Identical DHS and DOS media notes are here and here . Media coverage here , here , here , here , here and here . The intent is to curtail irregular migration through the Darién Gap . [I have...
"After four years of grueling work without pay as a nanny in Bethesda, Md., Zipora Mazengo finally obtained a $1 million judgment against her former employer. The Tanzanian citizen spent five more years attempting to collect. Her pro bono lawyers at Jenner & Block recognized that the challenge was immense, given that her former employer was Alan Mzengi, an ex-minister at the Embassy of Tanzania in Washington who had since returned to his home country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, diplomats enjoy immunity from lawsuits. Jenner attorneys took the case to Congress and the U.S. State Department. And in June, ahead of President Obama's trip to Tanzania, they reached a confidential settlement. The deal was the first in which a government has paid to settle a human-trafficking case involving one of its diplomats. "To get past the issues of diplomatic immunity and get a judgment and then collect on it is the holy grail of these cases," said Julie Carpenter, co-leader of the pro bono committee at Jenner & Block and a partner in the Washington office." - Amanda Bronstad, Jan. 6, 2014.