FMCSA requests public comment on Jenifer Sanchez Vilchis's application for an exemption to permit Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients with valid Employment Authorization Documents to obtain and hold a Class B passenger-vehicle Commercial Driver's License (CDL) under the same conditions as other lawfully work-authorized individuals. Ms. Sanchez Vilchis requests an immediate, temporary exemption to allow States to issue Class B CDLs to DACA holders. FMCSA is required by statute to publish a notice explaining each exemption request. This notice does not indicate that FMCSA intends to grant the requested exemption. FMCSA reviews the application, safety analyses, and public comments submitted and may grant or deny the exemption.
Organizers of an annual conference focused on the EB-5 investment visa program stressed a theme of optimism at the event last week in Miami, but even as the program appears to have overcome many of its own past issues, it was impossible to ignore the uncertainty and volatility that hangs over the program and U.S. immigration more broadly.
Immigrants aren't eligible for the Federal Communications Commission's Lifeline program, which subsidizes the cost of phone and internet service for low-income households, unless they've been in the country for five years, the U.S. Department of Justice has declared.
A bankruptcy trustee may continue to pursue claims that a lender violated an oral amendment to a loan agreement, a former executive for a Dunkin' franchisee cannot push his case to Delaware, and a law firm hired to represent an investment fund is not responsible for the revocation of a visa for one of the fund's co-founders after he was terminated, judges in Suffolk County's Business Litigation Session concluded in May.
A federal judge in D.C. has declined the Trump administration's request to pause a lawsuit over ICE's warrantless home entry policy, saying the White House's claim that it suspended the policy is insufficient.
A farmworker has asked a New York federal judge to block the state from imposing a union contract on him and his co-workers, saying the contract adopted under a state agricultural labor law violates his constitutional rights and is preempted by federal immigration law.
Foreign national truck and bus drivers in Florida asked a federal judge to quickly block a state agency's decision to stop issuing commercial driver's licenses to certain noncitizens based on a challenged federal rule the drivers said is likely unlawful.
The Board of Immigration Appeals failed to fully consider a Salvadoran woman's attempt to avoid removal after fleeing familial violence, the Fourth Circuit ruled Monday, finding it didn't examine a particular social group she said she was persecuted for belonging to.
A Georgia federal court on Monday awarded $3.45 million in attorney fees and costs to lawyers for workers who reached an $11.5 million settlement over claims that a Hyundai supplier, a Kia plant and staffing agencies recruited skilled Mexican engineers for production work and underpaid them.
Yuma, Ariz. — During the week of May 11-15, U.S. Border Patrol agents from Yuma Sector arrested 52 individuals during Operation Checkmate for being in the U.S. illegally, of which 36 were driving semi-trucks. Operation Checkmate enhances public…