Category: Court

Two major legal issues are currently being reviewed in federal courts. One involves a proposed change to how children born in the U.S. are granted citizenship. The other concerns a series of recent deportations under a rarely used law from the 1700s. This article explains both cases in plain terms, what the courts are saying,… Read More

On February 23, 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed paperwork to seek a stay of a federal district court decision to block temporarily some of President Obama’s latest executive actions on immigration. That decision was in response to a lawsuit by 26 states. The blocked programs include an expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood… Read More

In Matter of JP Morgan Chase & Co. (see Decision 2011-PER-00635), the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) upheld the denial of a labor certification application filed by JP Morgan Chase for a vice president of mergers and acquisition because the company noted that addresses of applicants were included in their resumes instead of… Read More

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton of Phoenix ruled on September 5, 2012 (PDF), that the “show me your papers” provision of Arizona’s immigration law will stand, at least for now. That provision allows Arizona police officers to question immigration status while carrying out enforcement of other laws. Judge Bolton said the law must take effect before… Read More

In Residential Finance Corporation v. USCIS, decided on March 12, 2012, Judge Gregory L. Frost of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio chided U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for its faulty analysis of why it denied an H-1B petition to a market research analyst with a bachelor’s degree in that… Read More