USCIS Not Yet Accepting Deferred Action Applications From Certain Young People But Will Be Soon!

USCIS Not Yet Accepting Deferred Action Applications From Certain Young People But Will Be Soon! On June 15, 2012, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced, effective immediately,...

ICE: Prison Terms for Employers/Conspirators for Harboring, Transporting and Employing Illegal Aliens

5 residents pled guilty, on July 16, 2010, to knowingly harboring, transporting and employing illegal aliens, as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents (such as special agents). ICE’s, an investigation agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), functions are to protect national security, public safety and the integrity of the...

ICE Immigration Enforcements & Compliance with U.S. Immigration Law

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a department within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for a broad-range of civil enforcement of U.S. immigration law such as the apprehension, detention and/or removal of non-U.S. citizens or foreign nationals. Given its finite resources, scope of enforcement actions, and the enormous immigration or administrative violations in the U.S., ICE only has resources...

U.S. Citizen Pled Guilty to Marriage Fraud & Sponsored Wife is Now a Fugitive

As a result of an investigation conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), on June 22, 2010, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen pled guilty to marriage fraud in that he entered into a phony marriage with a Cambodian national for the purposes of assisting her to evade U.S. immigration law and to obtain U.S. permanent residency. In exchange for entering into the fraudulent marriage, the U.S. citizen was paid about...

ICE Arrests: Targeting Immigration Fugitives and Foreign Nationals Arrested or Convicted of Certain Crime (Foreign Nationals & Green Card Holders Take Note!)

Foreign Nationals or non-U.S. citizens (including green card holders) with criminal histories, removal/deportation orders, immigration hearings or notice to appear at immigration hearings should have their immigration options thoroughly analyzed and represented. From May 10 to May 4 of 2010, and from May 24 to 28 of 2010, the local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fugitive operations teams (FOT) arrested 72 foreign...

Temporary Suspension of Removal of Foreign Nationals to Haiti, U.S. Immigration Response to Haiti's Earthquake Tragedy

On January 13, 2010, in response to the devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton halted all removals to Haiti for the time bei...