Immigrants, labor unions, business, religious groups, and civil rights organizations continued full steam ahead today at the national immigration Campaign Summit in Washington, D.C., to push Congress for comprehensive immigration reform. According to Summit organizers, the newly re-energized groups managed to send more than 100,000 faxes calling for comprehensive reform to Congress in the last 48 hours-in addition to a full day of lobby visits on Capitol Hill.

Please join us on June 15th for “Living and Working in Canada” – a free audio conference brought to you by Immigration Solutions.  Refer to our Invitation and RSVP to reserve your place today.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6785743/Living-and-Working-in-Canada

In an effort to keep you updated on E-Verify developments, we thought our readership would find this information useful in terms of evaluating whether or not E-Verify would be a workable tool for you.  Please refer to: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6774576/E-Verify-Update.

If you haven’t had a listen to our Compliance Podcast, you can access it here, along with a list of our compliance services and solutions here.

This week several organizations will launch a campaign to Reform Immigratin FOR America in cities across the country – from LA to Miami. Today a large coalition of allies from business to community groups, will officially kick off this campaign in Washington, DC.  We link to the Notice from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA):

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6764009/AILA

The company used false information for H-2B work visas and charged workers fees ranging from $400 to $3,000 and allegedly threatened workers with a $5,000 fee if they returned to their home country, the Attorney’s Office said.

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Advance Parole (I-131 Application for Advance Parole) must be obtained in the following circumstances:

• If you’ve been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
• If you have a pending application for Adjustment of Status to Permanent Resident
• If you have a pending application for relief under Section 203 of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act
• If you have a pending asylum application
• If you have a pending application for legalization

Advance Parole is permission to reenter the USA after traveling abroad.  If you are planning travel you need to plan ahead and allow at least 90 or more days for processing.  We link to the USCIS Update.

There’s been a rift going on for several months in re degree requirements when USCIS wandered off the reservation and decided that all PTs and OTs required master’s degrees for H-1B classification regardless of state licensing requirements.  The issue has finally been resolved:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6468237/Velarde-healthcare-memo-5-20-09-_USCIS_

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USCIS through its International Division recently opened up an adjudications office in Anaheim, CA for paper-based applicaton processing received from its international offices referred to as the International Adjudication Support Branch (IASB).  The branch office will provide USCIS with greater flexibility in handling to seasonal and periodic fluctuations in the worklod of the international office throughout the year.

Initially the office will focus on processing I-601 non-health related waivers of inadmissibility for USCIS’ office in Ciudad Juarez.  We link to Q&A

Politico reports that President Obama has invited members of Congress from both sides of the aisle to discuss immigration reform at the White House on June 8th.  An unnamed administration official stated, “The meeting will be an opportunity to launch a policy conversation that we hope will be able to start a debate that will take place in Congress later in the year.”

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