BREAKING NEWS: DACA is Back, Trump is Thwarted Again – This Time By a Republican Appointed Judge On April 24, 2018, Federal Judge John D. Bates for the District of Columbia ruled DACA must remain in place and that the government must resume accepting new applications. Judge Bates had concluded that the Trump Administration’s decision…
STEM OPT Under Siege for Third Party Placements By Roujin Mozaffarimehr and Eddie Corona Without any warning, USCIS has re-interpreted the STEM OPT Rule from 2016 to eliminate third party placements and product implementations at a client’s worksite. The current STEM OPT regulations at 8 CFR 214.2(f) do not have any explicit bars to employers placing…
Sunnyvale ‘Dreamer’ Heads to Capitol Hill to Advocate for DACA Recipients By Kalpana Peddibhotla/ImmiCore Law Founder Since 2010, I have represented Ruchir Parikh and his family, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1992 when Ruchir was only six years old. For the past twenty-five years, this “DREAMer” has been struggling to stay in the only…
SABA Naturalization Drive This past Sunday April 22nd, Kalpana joined the host of Power Hour on 92.3 FM, Yogi Chugh, to discuss the SABA Naturalization Drive that she is spearheading. SABA is a professional association of South Asian American attorneys with over 7000 members across the U.S. Kalpana, a lifetime member of SABA is spearheading…
H-1B Cap for FY 2019 Reached in Five Days By Kalpana Peddibhotla and Roujin Mozaffarimehr H-1B season ended almost as quickly as it began. On April 2, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began accepting petitions for FY 2019 for the coveted visa for highly-skilled foreign workers. Mid-morning April 6, the agency announced that it had reached…
Members of Congress Fight to Save Work Authorization for H-4 Visa Holders By Kalpana Peddibhotla and Roujin Mozaffarimehr Last month, 15 members of Congress from California signed a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen urging her to reconsider the agency’s proposal to revoke work authorization for certain H-4 visa holders. Key signatories included…
Memo Regarding Zero Tolerance Policy/ Family Separation Policy With all of the rapid changes taking place with regard to President Trump’s zero tolerance policy and family separation actions, ImmiCore Law has put together a detailed overview of the legal roots of these policies, where these policies stand as of the release of this memorandum, as…