by Jeremy Jennings | Apr 20, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
It’s been a pretty remarkable year in immigration politics. A year ago, the Republican primaries pushed Mitt Romney to advocate “self-deportation” as his principal strategy to the immigration issue–a strategy endorsing Arizona and Alabama-type...
by Jeremy Jennings | Apr 7, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
Immigration reform has been all over the news since Obama’s re-election. Groups in both chambers of Congress report that they are very close to releasing immigration bills. Remember that the introduction of a bill is the starting point of the process. Each...
by Jeremy Jennings | Mar 4, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
USCIS has begun accepting provisional hardship waiver applications. This is a significant development for many people that removes much of the risk from the existing process of trying to legalize their status. In short, persons who entered the county unlawfully and...
by Jeremy Jennings | Dec 28, 2012 | Immigration Law Blog
USCIS has announced that the Provisional Waiver rule will be published soon. The Provisional Waiver allows I-601 extreme hardship waiver applications to be filed and adjudicated in the U.S. prior to leaving for the consular interview. The effect is that visa...
by Jeremy Jennings | Nov 9, 2012 | Immigration Law Blog
Prior to the presidential election, young people faced a great deal of uncertainty about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) policy introduced by President Obama. Mitt Romney had previously vowed to veto a DREAM Act and had stated that he would close the...
by Jeremy Jennings | Nov 9, 2012 | Immigration Law Blog
The just-concluded national election has breathed new life to the issue of immigration reform. The political reality of the size of Latino turnout (10% of the electorate) and the fact that they overwhelmingly voted Democratic has caused many Republicans to revisit...
