March 2012

Politico reported that President Barack Obama is trying to take advantage of what’s quickly becoming the country’s largest service export: international tourists. With overseas visitors pumping $153 billion into the U.S. economy last year — an increase of $19 billion that Commerce Department figures show...

18-Month Designation of Syria for Temporary Protected Status Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that she will be designating Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Next week, USCIS will post a Federal Register notice designating Syria for TPS...

We represent one of the largest U.S. companies that manufactures generic pharmaceutical products for chains, wholesalers, distributors, hospitals, managed care entities and government agencies. Our client wanted to hire a foreign national working in H-1B status for another pharmaceutical company who had a pending I-485...

Getson & Schatz represented a client from Ethiopia who entered the U.S. on a nonimmigrant F-1 student visa. The client subsequently stopped attending the school for which his F-1 student visa was granted and was employed without employment authorization. The Department of Homeland Security eventually...

The Washington Post reported that foreign-born workers represent an exceptionally high share of the labor force in roughly half of the count B )s fastest-growing and largest-growing sectors, according to new analysis of government data, suggesting that immigrants have a critical role to play in...

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that declaring themselves "undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid," two college students, both illegal immigrants, were arrested by Philadelphia police Wednesday after a boisterous immigrant-rights protest that snarled traffic for more than an hour. Tania Chairez, 19, a University of Pennsylvania sophomore, and...

Fox News reported that the Department of Homeland Security is finalizing its plan for a biometric data system to track when immigrants leave the United States and will present it to Congress within "weeks," a top department official told a House Homeland Security subcommittee Tuesday....