NELSON | SMITH helps to ease filing restriction on Asylum Seekers.
5/11/2008
In a precedent setting case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently published a NELSON | SMITH case that will help to ease the filing restriction placed on individuals who are afraid to return to their home country.

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USCIS Extends Optional Practical Training for Graduates Awaiting New H-1Bs
4/6/2008
On April 4, 2008, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced changes to the Optional Practical Training program (OPT), a program that has traditionally allowed foreign graduates of U.S. degree programs to work in the Un
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3/18/2007: U.S. Immigration Begins Criminal Checks of U.S. Citizen Petitioners
The Adam Walsh Act changed the immigration law to make it more difficult for a United States citizen (USC) or Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) to apply for or sponsor a non-citizen family member, if the citizen or
12/1/2006: Family Hopes Father Won't Be Deported
“Fabian Ruiz was 19 when he first decided to seek work in the United States. He and a cousin waited until nightfall, then ducked through a hole in a fence separating Nogales, Mexico, from Nogales, Arizona. They stowed away on a freight train bound f
12/1/2006: Major Changes on the Immigration Horizon
Before the Senate's version of comprehensive immigration reform can become law, the Senate must reach an agreement with the House of Representatives, which passed a mean-spirited separate bill that would require everyone here without status to leave the c
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