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I-9 Audits are at an All-Time High—Are You Prepared?

The risk of an audit for companies in certain industries is very high and if their I-9 records are found to be in noncompliance, they can experience a range of penalties, including fines and criminal prosecution, says Kisshia Simmons, a Senior Associate in the Houston office of Chamberlain Hrdlicka.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Foreign Worker Policies Likely to Improve for Business

President Biden has carved out potentially meaningful reforms to employment-based immigration laws, says Sang Shin, an immigration attorney in Houston with Jackson Walker LLP.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

EB-5 Enforcement on the Uptick

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program is one that attracts its fair share of attention, not all of it good, and too much of it from the SEC and DOJ, say Gene Besen and Shae Armstrong, partners at Bradley.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Joins Wave of Red States Challenging Biden Immigration Policies

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody accused the president of endangering residents and flouting federal law by pausing deportations for certain migrants.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

New Paths to Citizenship and Green Cards in Biden's Proposed Immigration Bill

The bill has several bold changes aimed at "restoring humanity and American values" with provisions that impact almost every group of immigrants in the United States.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

BAR REPORT - COVID safety protocols at Newark federal building

NJSBA urges action over lapsed COVID safety protocols at Peter Rodino Federal Building in Newark
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Asylum-Seeker's Refusal to Join MS-13 Does Not Qualify as 'Political Opinion,' 2nd Circuit Panel Rules

The panel upheld a decision finding that "refusing to join a gang without more does not constitute a political opinion" that could entitle him to asylum protections.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Biden's Ongoing Immigration Battle

The weeks ahead will reveal what the Biden administration can accomplish with immigration in its first year, writes Aron Solomon, the senior digital strategist for NextLevel.com and an adjunct professor of business management at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

In Rare Showdown, SCOTUS Hearing Reunites Former and Current Hogan Lovells Partners

The unusual faceoff between current and former Hogan Lovells partners began with good luck wishes and ended with high praise.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Biden's Initial Immigration Actions Aim to Stabilize a Community in Chaos

President Biden's victory could not have been more welcomed by the immigration law community after four years of the Trump administration enacting policies, proclamations and executive orders that severely curtailed immigration to the United States.
6 minute read

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