Only five days after the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) opened the 2020 H-1B petition season, the agency announced on Friday that it had already received enough petitions to reach the 65,000 H-1B regular cap visas that Congress issues each fiscal year. USCIS is now calculating the number of H-1B Master’s cap petitions received that meet the requirements for consideration for the additional 20,000 H-1B READ MORE READ MORE

On Wednesday, nearly 300 people were arrested at a worksite raid in what Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has called the “biggest workplace immigration raid in a decade.” The raid at a Dallas-area receiving warehouse owned and operated by New Jersey based CVE Group Inc., a technology products company, was led by DHS’ Homeland Security Investigations (“HIS”) unit, with a team of over 200 federal agents. DHS READ MORE READ MORE

Yesterday, I was honored to speak before the National Association of Real Estate Broker’s Southern New Jersey Regional Board (NAREB) on the impact of the American immigration system and the current Administration’s enforcement actions on New Jersey’s real estate industry. The food was incredible, the information was plentiful, the interest was intense, and the questions were many–from whether the City of Camden could be designated an EB-5 READ MORE READ MORE

On Friday, the New Jersey Immigrant Trust Directive went into effect–essentially ending any cooperation between the State and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigration enforcement matters. Announced in December of 2018 by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, the Immigrant Trust Directive effectively declared New Jersey a “sanctuary state.” Effective last Friday, the directive prohibits state, county, and local law enforcement agencies, including police, prosecutors, READ MORE READ MORE

ABC-7 New York reported yesterday that Joe Giudice–husband of Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice–has been released from federal prison and is on his way to a federal immigration detention facility, where he will await the decision of an appeal of an Immigration Court order deporting Giudice to his native Italy. According to ABC-7 sources, Giudice will “be transferred directly to an immigration detention center, READ MORE READ MORE