The law allowing employer-sponsored workers to maintain the status quo on their immigration applications when they change jobs requires the government to give pre-revocation notice to either the immigrant applicants or their new employer, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Mantena v. Johnson, 14-2476, interpreted the so-called “portability” provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act and reinstated the case of Ganga Mantena, a computer programmer whose first employer was prosecuted for immigration fraud.
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