The $100,000 fee requirement for H-1B visas that took effect last month applies to new H-1B petitions filed on behalf of applicants who are outside the United States, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Monday.
SpaceX and Cards Against Humanity have settled the Chicago-based game company's $15 million suit accusing SpaceX of trespassing and dumping trash and machinery on a once-pristine Texas property that Cards Against Humanity purchased to block President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Illinois and the city of Chicago implored the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to leave in place a federal judge's order temporarily barring the Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to the Windy City, arguing the evidence on the ground comes nowhere close to supporting the president's deployment order.
Workers and unions on Monday petitioned the D.C. Circuit to review a new U.S. Department of Transportation rule that blocks certain immigrants from holding commercial driver's licenses despite having authorization to work in the U.S.
Two immigration officials defended their agencies' recent use of force during the Trump administration's ongoing enforcement crackdown in Chicago on Monday, taking the stand after an Illinois federal judge expressed concern that they were violating her earlier order temporarily barring them from using allegedly violent silencing tactics against the media and peaceful protesters.
The Ninth Circuit recognized in a split panel decision on Monday that President Donald Trump likely acted within his statutory power when he called for Oregon National Guard members to be sent to Portland, granting the federal government's bid to stay a lower court order blocking the deployment as an appeal plays out.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated the rights of eight noncitizens by detaining them without providing bond hearings, a Michigan federal judge ruled, echoing her prior characterization of the Trump administration's push to impose mandatory detention as "not only wrong, but fundamentally unfair."
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday again told the government it cannot look at data pulled off an immigration lawyer's phone that it seized at Logan International Airport last month, as the court weighs his request for an order to destroy the information.
Federal prosecutors in California have downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor an obstruction charge against the Service Employees International Union's California head, who was arrested in June during a protest at an immigration raid.
A New York federal jury Friday returned a landmark $20 million verdict against French bank BNP Paribas, finding the bank liable for its role enabling the genocide former Islamist dictator Omar al-Bashir committed against Black African civilians in Sudan.