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Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act – Let’s Get It Right This Time Around

February 19, 2013

| Blogs, Chicago Immigration Lawyer Blog, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, EB1 Extraordinary Ability, EB2 Exceptional Ability, EB3 Professional Skilled Workers, Immigration Reform, PERM

Brief History of High-Skilled Immigrants Act The fairness of High Skilled Immigrants Act was discussed during a February 13, 2013 Senate Hearing. If you recall, the Bill was introduced to the House in September 2011 and subsequently passed in November 2011 by the U.S. House of Representatives. It has subsequently been stalled by the Senate. However, during…

Provisional Waiver of Unlawful Presence Process = Lower Risk?

February 13, 2013

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| Blogs, Chicago Immigration Lawyer Blog, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Waiver, Immigration Reform, Waiver of Inadmissibility

USCIS recently announced a new Provisional Waiver program for persons having accrued unlawful presence in the US. The new rule will go into effect March 4, 2013. The provisional waiver program is certainly not comprehensive immigration reform and its not even a change in the law. But for those eligible it is a positive change. Let’s start out by describing in…

2013 Immigration Reform: Democrats vs. Republicans

February 1, 2013

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| Blogs, Chicago Immigration Lawyer Blog, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Current Immigration News, Dream Act, Immigration Reform

2013 is the year of Immigration Reform, or so we have been told by Politicians from both sides of the aisle. The chart below will show that in big picture ideas and words, the republicans and the democrats are not too far apart. But as the old saying goes, “the devil is in the details.”…