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  • May 22, 2013
    Trade NAFTA Management Consultant Approved Our client is a Canadian citizen. She has more than 10 years of experience in the field of data analytics. A United States technology services company that provides professional and consulting services to renowned IT companies desires our client's services as a management consultant. The company wishes to assign our client to work with its clients to provide advice on how information patterns can support sound business decision-making. In view Continue reading >>
  • May 13, 2013
    CONDITIONAL PERMANENT RESIDENCY APPROVED FOR VISA WAIVER CLIENT Our client is a native and citizen of Italy. She has previously been in the United States on a temporary basis as a J-1 exchange visitor, during which time she met and fell in love with her United States citizen husband. Our client was not subject to the 2-year foreign residency requirement for J-1 exchange visitors. The couple planned to get married in Italy this summer, and our client’s husband intended to petition for her and she Continue reading >>
  • May 6, 2013
    L-1A Function Manager Petition Approved, Abandonment of Permanent Residence Handled at Border Our client is a Canadian citizen who is employed as the Senior Lead Hand of a Canadian company that fabricates specialty architectural features. He has more than 21 years of experience in manufacturing and welding, first as a welder, and then as a supervisor. His job duties require him to manage the welding and fitting operations at the company’s production facility. The company wished to transfer our client to its United States affiliate Continue reading >>
  • May 1, 2013
    L-1B SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE RENEWAL PETITION APPROVED IN ONE HOUR Our client is a Canadian citizen. He is employed as Vice President of Strategic Business Development for a Canadian IT consulting firm, and was previously approved in L-1B status on behalf of the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary in the United States. Following the approval of an initial L-1B petition, a reorganization of the corporate structure took place whereby the U.S. company became an affiliate of the Canadian corporation. The U.S. Continue reading >>
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U.S. Immigration News

  • May 10, 2013
    Four immigration officials charged with bribery, fraud "On Wednesday, federal prosecutors announced charges against Anders, Figueroa, Lovingood, Dominguez and a client of Lee's, Mirei Gia Hofmann. The current and former immigration officials were indicted Tuesday on charges including conspiracy, bribery, fraud and misuse of government seals. Hofmann faces a single count of immigration fraud." Click here for more of this US immigration news update. Continue reading >>
  • May 8, 2013
    Immigration Bill Faces Hundreds Of Amendments, Including On LGBT Rights "Some of the potential pitfalls for the bipartisan Senate immigration reform bill came into focus on Tuesday when Judiciary Committee members filed 300 amendments, ranging from worker visa changes to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The 18-member committee will begin discussion Thursday on those amendments to the so-called gang of eight's "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act." As Continue reading >>
  • May 7, 2013
    U.S. think tank's immigration study draws conservative fire "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. think tank headed by former Republican Senator Jim DeMint drew fire from fellow conservatives Monday for concluding that the citizenship proposals in a sweeping immigration reform bill would cost taxpayers trillions. The clash underscored divisions within the Republican Party over bipartisan immigration legislation in the Senate backed by Democratic President Barack Obama. The Heritage Foundation, in a Continue reading >>
  • May 3, 2013
    Immigration Plan Assailed in New Attack on Cost by DeMint "The most significant revision of U.S. immigration laws in a generation will come under a new line of attack for its potential costs to public programs including Social Security and Medicare. Jim DeMint, a former Republican senator from South Carolina and now president of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, will lead the assault with a report from his Republican-leaning institute as early as next week on the costs government would bear in Continue reading >>
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