Immigration Law

Federal Budget 2010
The United States Government Budget overview for the 2010 fiscal year is now online...

USCIS CONDUCTS H-1B LOTTERY
From USCIS: WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today conducted the computer-generated random selection processes on H-1B petitions, to select which H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2009 (FY 2009) would continue to full adjudication...

Law: Random selection for H-1B petitions
Random Selection Process on H-1B Petitions On April 14, 2008 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) conducted a random selection process on H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2009...

USCIS Runs Random Selection Process For H-1B Petitions
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today conducted the computer-generated random selection processes on H-1B petitions, to select which H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2009 (FY 2009) would continue to full adjudication...

Senate Earmarks $490 Million to Fight Fraud
The US Senate on Tuesday voted 92-4 in favor of Senate bill 386, called the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, which provides $490m over the next two fiscal years for mortgage fraud investigation...

e-petitions for the House of Commons by 2010 ?
The Procedure Committee of the House of Commons has now published their Report about the possibility of introducing an e-petitions to the House of Commons, perhaps by 2010, based mostly on the on the experience of the No...

Is a child fathered out of wedlock by an American diplomat to a foreign women on foreign soil entitled to US Citizenship by jus sanguinis?
This is a very tough situation your friend is in. It is difficult to know the ex...

Can my employer threaten me with termination if I don't seek a transfer to another department?
In many jurisdictions, employees are "at will". This means that their employmen...

How to learn content of deceased parent's will?
go to the court house where your father died or the county he lived in. It is pu...

How can I prove my wife only married me to get a green card?
The problem with an annulment is that they are hard to get-- they are not someth...

Can I be held responsible for paying child support if I signed a birth certificate of a child that was not mine (am not the biological father)?
Get yourself some legal counsil straigth away. Explain you situation to him/her ...

Jail Funds
Santa Clara must pay $1.5 million settlement for improper fiscal management.

82 Year Old
Awarded $6 Million in SJS Lawsuit

Chicago Golf Course
101 Year Old Owner Must Get $25 Million for Property

Settlement
Travis County TX offers 72-year old woman $40k to settle taser suit

Fatal Drug Bust
City of Louisville awards family a $250,000 wrongful death settlement after a police officer shot a 19-year-old boy.

Child Abuse Settlement
The mother of 6-year-old Brandon Ford has accepted a $1.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that claimed the boy was severely brain damaged while in foster care...