The number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts reached a new all-time high of 247,922 by mid June 2010, according to very timely government enforcement data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). The case backlog has continued to grow - up...
A parade of states led by Arizona says the federal government is not doing enough to combat illegal immigration. But by one measure – deportations – the federal government is doing more than it has ever done. In 2009, the United States deported a record...
President Barack Obama signed into law a $600 million bill that would increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill was passed by congress last week and sent to his desk in hopes of a signature. “I have made securing our Southwest Border a top...
Records show that about 47,000 people have been removed or deported from the U.S. after the Homeland Security Department sifted through 3 million sets of fingerprints taken from bookings at local jails. About one-quarter of those kicked out of the country did not have criminal...
Our Philadelphia Immigration Attorneys successfully represented a U.S. Citizen in sponsoring her husband who lived overseas for permanent resident status. The husband in wife were married in Jamaica and we filed an I-130 Petition for Alien Relative and thereafter filed an I-129F Petition for K-3...
U.S. immigration officials are boosting efforts to protect immigrant crime victims with increased funding and greater outreach to publicize visa opportunities for those who assist law enforcement in prosecuting their perpetrators. The stepped-up efforts helped the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services approve the...
Our client, a United States Citizen, had filed I-130 Petitions on behalf of both of her parents with the Vermont Service Center requesting consular processing. The Petitions were approved but following the approval the files were lost by the Immigration Service during the time period...
According to an article in the Washington Post, ICE expects to deport about 400,000 people this fiscal year, which is nearly 10 percent more than the Bush administration’s 2008 total and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007. The Obama administration has also far...
The Obama administration, anticipating that Congress might not pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, is considering ways it could act without congressional approval to achieve many of the objectives of the initiative, including giving permanent resident status, or green cards, to large numbers of people...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today the launch of ICE's Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS), a public, Internet-based tool designed to assist family members, attorneys and other interested parties in locating detained aliens in ICE custody. The creation and implementation of the ODLS...
