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| Chapter 1: Overview of Major Developments in Immigration Law and Practice 2017–2018 (October 1, 2018) |
Austin T. Fragomen ~ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
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| Chapter 2: An H-1B Journey from RFE to Denial to Approval; Dealing with This Year’s Flavor of the Month for Denials |
David Grunblatt ~ Proskauer
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| Chapter 3: 2018 Consular Review |
Kathleen Campbell Walker ~ Dickinson Wright PLLC
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| Chapter 4: Let’s Get Trained About On-the-Job Training in the PERM Context (September 21, 2018) |
Sarah K. Peterson ~ SPS Immigration PLLC
Catherine L. Haight ~ Haight Law Group, PLC
Vincent W. Lau ~ Clark Lau LLC
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| Chapter 5: The Draconian Documentation Regime for Third Party Arrangements in H-1B Visa Petitions (March 5, 2018) |
Cyrus D. Mehta ~ Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC
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| Chapter 6: Suspension of Premium Processing: Another Attack on the H-1B Program (September 3, 2018) |
Cyrus D. Mehta ~ Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC
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| Chapter 7: Laura D. Francis, Tata Immigration Case Could Shake IT Companies to ‘Very Core’ (September 12, 2018) |
Cyrus D. Mehta ~ Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC
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| Chapter 8: Long-Time Visa Holders Fear New Immigration Guidance on Questioning Prior Approvals (November 15, 2017) |
William A. Stock ~ Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP
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| Chapter 9: Challenging Times for the H-1B Visa Holders and Their Employers (March 14, 2018) |
William A. Stock ~ Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP
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| Chapter 10: How Trump Will Reduce Immigration Without Changing the INA or Even 8 CFR |
Ira J. Kurzban ~ Kurzban, Kurzban, Tetzeli and Pratt, P.A.
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| Chapter 11: Vidal v. Nielsen, Amended Memorandum & Order & Preliminary Injunction, 16-cv-04756 (NGG)(JO) (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 13, 2018) |
Trudy S. Rebert ~ Staff Attorney, National Immigration Law Center
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| Chapter 12: Litigation Related to the DACA Program (September 4, 2018) |
Trudy S. Rebert ~ Staff Attorney, National Immigration Law Center
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| Chapter 13: Status of Current DACA Litigation (September 6, 2018) |
Trudy S. Rebert ~ Staff Attorney, National Immigration Law Center
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| Chapter 14: The Provisional Waiver—What It Means and Who Can Use It |
Charles H. Kuck ~ Kuck Baxter Immigration Partners LLC
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| Chapter 15: USCIS Finalizes Guidance on Job Changes by Employment-Based Adjustment Applicants (March 22, 2016), available at www.Fragomen.com |
Cynthia Juarez Lange ~ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
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| Chapter 16: USCIS to Require In-Person Interviews for Employment-Based Adjustment Applicants (August 28, 2017), available at www.Fragomen.com |
Cynthia Juarez Lange ~ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
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| Chapter 17: Update—Employment-Based Adjustment Interviews: What Foreign Nationals Need to Know (December 14, 2017), available at www.Fragomen.com |
Cynthia Juarez Lange ~ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
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| Chapter 18: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Policy Memorandum, PM-602-0122.1, Determining Whether a New Job Is in “the Same or a Similar Occupational Classification” for Purposes of Section 204(j) Job Portability (March 18, 2016) |
Cynthia Juarez Lange ~ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
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| Chapter 19: Outline of United States Asylum Law: Substantive Criteria and Procedural Concerns (July 27, 2018) |
Mark R. von Sternberg ~ Senior Attorney, Immigrant & Refugee Services, Catholic Charities Community Services/Archdiocese of New York
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| Chapter 20: Ethical Issues for the Immigration Practitioner |
Robert E. Juceam ~ Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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| Chapter 21: Scott Titshaw, Conflicts of Interests and Waivers in Family Practice |
Claire R. Thomas ~ Adjunct Professor and Director of Asylum Clinic, New York Law School
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| Chapter 22: Ethical Issues in Representing Children in Immigration Proceedings, AILA Ethics Committee and the AILA Practice & Professionalism Center |
Claire R. Thomas ~ Adjunct Professor and Director of Asylum Clinic, New York Law School
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| Chapter 23: Contradictory I-9 Guidance in the Age of Trump |
Cynthia Juarez Lange ~ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Katherine J. Pynoos ~ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
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| Index |
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