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Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Overview and Recent Updates
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the authority to provide Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to individuals in the U.S. from countries experiencing issues that make it unsafe for its nationals to return. Issues that may cause DHS to designate...
Tis the season… to prepare H-1B petitions!
It’s that time of year again. The time when job seekers, foreign students, employers, and their immigration attorneys all begin to consider how to proceed with filing for new H-1Bs. As April 1st is the date that U.S. Citizenship and...
How has President Obama’s Executive Action affected the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program?
On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced that he will take certain executive actions on immigration in the absence of a Congressional fix to our immigration system. See our blog post summarizing his entire announcement here. One of the changes...
What is Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) and Who Will Qualify?
On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced that he will take certain executive actions on immigration in the absence of a Congressional fix to our immigration system. See our blog post summarizing his entire announcement here. One of the programs...
MMH Attorneys Attend Immigration Judges Roundtable
[caption id="attachment_4294" align="alignnone" width="620"] Hon. Jennie I. Giambastiani, Hon. Robert D. Vinikoor, Hon. Sheila McNulty, and program moderator, Eileen Momblanco, Immigration Committee member.[/caption] Under the leadership of Peggy McCormick, the Chicago Chapter of the FBA has established an Immigration Law...
Margaret McCormick & Beata Leja Attend President Obama’s Speech on Executive Action on Immigration at Copernicus Community Center in Chicago
On November 20, 2014, President Obama issued an executive order to greatly reduce the threat of deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. His order includes an expansion of the deferred action program and various measures to...
Executive Action on Immigration
After years of promises accompanied by political inaction on immigration reform (see our posts on the topic in parts one, two, and three), President Obama took matters into his own hands yesterday, announcing major changes to the nation’s “broken” immigration...
Many Inadmissibility Grounds Waived for SIJ Children
The rise in the number of undocumented children coming to the United States has been widely reported this year. Research shows that the cause for the dramatic increase in children traveling to the United States is the result of the...
