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Now that the 2016 Diversity Visa (DV-2016) Lottery program has officially started, political sentiment across the United States is being strongly expressed on this controversial immigration issue. The electronic DV lottery is more commonly referred to as the green card lottery; it presents a random opportunity for 50,000 foreign applicants to legally immigrate to the …Read More

The H-1B visa program is commonly associated with foreign workers who are sponsored by United States employers to fill positions in the computer science field. While programmers, developers and engineers make up the bulk of H-1B visa recipients brought to the U.S. to work at Silicon Valley companies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) …Read More

President Barack Obama will always be remembered for accomplishing quite a few things under his two consecutive terms in the White House, but some political observers believe that his next major accomplishment could be his last. In late July of 2014, President Obama made it clear that he intends to exercise his executive powers to …Read More

When the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State (DOS) adopted cloud computing technology a few years ago, they expected that this major upgrade would unify their worldwide operations and make their visa and passport issuance process more efficient. As many other organizations have learned since the cloud computing paradigm …Read More

As a trusted San Diego immigration law firm, we thought it’d be fitting to share a bit of information about our country’s new immigration director. Within two months of being sworn in as the new head of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Director Leon Rodriguez is already feeling the burden of leadership. …Read More

When partisan politics become a focal point of discussion in the United States, conservative factions are often seen as being against immigration while their liberal counterparts are thought to be supportive of immigrant rights. If this is the case, then it can be safely assumed that the leaders of both conservatives and liberals have mostly …Read More

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is now caring for more than 50,000 young immigrants classified under unaccompanied alien child (UAC) status. The majority of these children are from the Central American nations of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, less than five percent are …Read More

Since October of 2013, the United States Border Patrol has been dealing with an odd and difficult situation as thousands of children have turned up unaccompanied at the southern border. Most of these children are from the Central American “Triangle of Death,” which consists of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Why are these immigrant children …Read More

The Sheriff Departments of two populous counties in California have decided to stop contributing to the questionable and potentially unconstitutional practice of immigration holds. The Sheriffs of San Francisco and San Diego have issued official press releases announcing that they will no longer honor requests from the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency …Read More

State legislators, immigration advocates, district attorneys, and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are locked in legislative battles over the potential issuance of driving permits to undocumented immigrants. The legislatures of California, Pennsylvania and New York are considering giving driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants who are waiting for resolutions to the endless debate …Read More