Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner
Deportation Lawyers & Immigration Attorneys Helping Families Nationwide
DHS Office of Immigration Statistics working paper with analysis of data on border enforcement and the increase in smuggling costs along the southwest border.
USCIS press release announcing that in FY2010, it granted citizenship to the highest number of service members in any year since 1955. A fact sheet on naturalization through military service follows the press release.
ICE press release announcing that Secure Communities is now activated in four Illinois counties. With the expansion of this program to Crawford, De Witt, Ford, and Piatt counties, ICE is now using this capacity in 26 Illinois jurisdictions.
ICE press release announcing the death of Antonio Gomez-Hernandez, a Mexican national, while in ICE custody. He passed away at Loyola University Medical Center after suffering liver failure. Gomez-Hernandez is the first immigrant to pass away in ICE custody in FY2011.
ICE press release stating that a Jamaican national in ICE custody passed away at the Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria, LA due to organ failure associated with T-cell lymphoma. He had been in ICE custody since December 2009.
EOIR press release on and biographies of 23 new immigration judges for courts in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Texas.
DHS Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) on the ICE Electronic Surveillance System (ELSUR) used to track and search for ICE applications for court orders that authorize ICE to intercept oral, wire, or electronic communications during the course of a criminal investigation.
The DOL Liaison Committee advises members on determining whether a request for review of a labor certification denial has been accepted for processing in the government error queue.
DHS Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) on the Immigration Benefits Background Check Systems (IBBCS) used by USCIS to conduct background checks on petitioners and applicants who seek certain immigration benefits.
ICE press release that Luis Ramon Francisco, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for making a false application for a U.S. passport.
EOIR press release on the closing of the Orlando Immigration Court on 11/12/10 and relocation as of 11/18/10.
District court notice of a proposed settlement and hearing in a class action for Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) applicants. The hearing is scheduled for 12/13/10 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Perez-Olano v. Holder).
The International Exchange Center has developed a new resource on the final J-1 rule for training and intern programs. New final rules became effective Sept. 9, 2010 for J trainee and intern programs 22 C.F.R.§ 62 (2010).
The court held that the BIA did not err in concluding that the departure bar under 8 CFR §1003.2(d) divested it of jurisdiction to consider a sua sponte motion to reopen where the petitioner had already been removed. (Zhang v. Holder, 8/12/10)
USCIS press release and Q&As on the extension of TPS for Somalia from 3/17/11 to the new expiration date of 9/17/12. To maintain TPS status, Somali TPS beneficiaries must re-register during the re-registration period from 11/2/10 until 1/3/11.