After more than 12 hours of testimony, a federal judge appeared unconvinced by the government's position that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had done nothing wrong to warrant preliminary injunctive relief in a proposed class action alleging the agency is conducting warrantless arrests without determining probable cause.
A Florida franchisee group is suing a developer in state court over a $12 million loan to build two Twin Peaks restaurants in an EB-5 visa program, alleging the developer defaulted on the note and then told the IRS that it converted the loan into equity interest.
The new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas and a proposed overhaul of the visa lottery could have severe repercussions on healthcare access for many Americans, with experts saying the changes could worsen existing shortages of medical workers by restricting the foreign labor pool.
Eight former immigration judges who spoke to Law360 say the rough treatment of the immigration courts in President Donald Trump's second term poses an unprecedented threat to judicial independence and is eroding immigrants' due process rights.
The Seventh Circuit held Friday that an Illinois federal judge overstepped in requiring a top Border Patrol official leading the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Chicago to appear before her every weekday ahead of a Nov. 5 preliminary injunction hearing, saying she put herself in the position of "an inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator."
A Pittsburgh-based Meta employee and Carnegie Mellon University graduate claims mishandled paperwork by attorneys at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC forced him to temporarily leave the U.S. after an extension of his legal status was denied.
A federal judge had questions about the reason to have a two-day preliminary injunction at the start of the hearing in Colorado federal court Thursday in a proposed class action against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and others claiming the agency is conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause.
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the deportation of a Chilean green card holder who pled guilty to violating a Florida law criminalizing child neglect, finding the offense qualifies as a deportable crime under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.
The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct has reprimanded a municipal judge for directing sexual remarks at children and wishing sexual violence upon them, noting that the judge exhibited racial bias from the bench.
Recent guidance narrowing the scope of the $100,000 entry fee for H-1B visas will allow employers to plan for the hiring season, but a lack of detail about the mechanics of cross-agency payment verification, fee exemptions and other practical matters still need to be addressed, say attorneys at Klasko Immigration Law Partners.