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Hot Topics in CIR and Family Immigration
Hot Topics in CIR and Family Immigration
IMMIGRATION ATTORNEYS
CARL SHUSTERMAN
ANU JOSHI
Legalization
Entered U.S. before 12/31/2011
Registered Provisional Immigrant
(RPI)
Family-Based System
Employment-Based System
EB-1 immigrants
Doctoral degree holders,
Physicians who have completed the
foreign residency requirement
Derivatives
up investors
Temporary Workers
Asylum
Eliminate the one-year filing deadline
Authorize asylum officers to grant asylum during
Mandatory E-Verify
H-1B Visas
Increase general cap to
Fraud
What is DACA?
Not a Law, Does Not
Immigration Forms
Forms
Fee: $465
Circumstances
Background Checks
Innocent
Not Due to Deportation,
Exclusion, or Removal
Proceedings
Not for an Unlawful
Purpose
Criminal Convictions
Felony only if Punishable by Term of Imprisonment Exceeding
One Year
Significant Misdemeanors Include Crimes of Domestic Violence,
Sexual Abuse or Exploitation, Burglary, Unlawful Possession or
Use of a Firearm, Drug Distribution or Trafficking, DUI or where
Sentence was for 90+ days
Criminal Convictions
3 Misdemeanors
Traffic Violations including
Acceptable Evidence
Official Records: Financial, Medical, School,
Removal Okay
Persons in Detention Need to Apply for DACA with
ICE, not USCIS
No Appeal
No Motion to Reopen or
Reconsider
Review of Certain Denials Based on
RFEs Permitted
Reapply?
Questions?