Comprehensive USCIS Q & A for I-140 Green Card Petitions

Questions answered include:

1. How do I ensure the I-140 will not be rejected (returned) by USCIS?

2. How do I organize evidence in support of filings under the Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher, Multinational Manager, and National Interest Waiver green card categories?

4. Who is eligible for "portability" under "AC-21"?

5. Where to mail AC-21 portability requests?

6. How is "successor-in-interest" defined under US immigration law?

You can read the Q & A here.

Ever wonder how a US Immigration Officer is trained to detect fraud?

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Immigration Prosecutions Rise, Organized Crime, Drugs and Weapons Charges Drop

Courtesy of the Immigration Policy Center:

...a shift in priorities has created the largest number of federal immigration prosecutions of non-violent border crossers ever. The trade-off is while the federal government spends billions of dollars prosecuting non-violent immigration violators, more serious criminals involved in drugs, weapons, and organized crime face a lower probability of prosecution.

You can read the entire report, prepared by the (TRAC) Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse here.

DHS FY 2011 Budget Request Demonstrates Enforcement Mentality

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), released on February 1, 2010, demonstrates the enforcement mentality which drives the federal government’s approach to immigration.

The two immigration-enforcement components of DHS, CBP (Customs and Border Protection) and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, consume 30% of DHS' total budget; while the the immigration services component, USCIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services), is allotted a only 5%.

So, instead of moving forward with comprehensive immigration reform, which could actually stimulate the economy, the DHS budget proposes to throw billions of dollars into enforcement-only measures which have historically been unsuccessful in dealing with unauthorized immigration.

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