President Donald Trump has pledged to take strong immediate action on the issue of immigration just one day after saying he intended to use the military to guard the border between the US and Mexico until his much-promised wall is finally constructed. Trump tweeted early on Wednesday morning that current border laws are too weak […]

With many US visa programs being tightened up by the US government and some Senators pushing for immigrant investors US visas to undergo comprehensive reform, individuals of high net worth considering moving to the US are being advised to speed up their US visa applications by immigration lawyers. In late March, the EB-5 US visa

There has been a dramatic reduction in the number of H-1B US visa applications filed by IT companies in India. Many foreign nationals are also increasingly reluctant to start working for companies in the US, due to the tough anti-immigration stance taken by the Trump administration, according to a leading Silicon Valley newspaper. The editorial

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that he would have the US military guard the border between the US and Mexico as he indicated a further crackdown on illegal immigration is on the way while slamming current US border laws as being too weak. Trump has made public remarks as well as comments on Twitter

Quotas for immigration judges have apparently been set for the first time by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which will require them to have a certain amount of cases closed per year. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that judges were notified late last week by the DOJ that their performance will be evaluated

While Congress continues to make President Donald Trump’s hopes for creating an immigration system based more around merit seem unlikely to come to fruition, the Trump administration is proceeding to make it harder for high-skilled immigrants to get H-1B US visas. A program granting US visas to foreign entrepreneurs wanting to start businesses in the

On Sunday, President Donald Trump said that there would now be no deal for the millions of Dreamers – the undocumented young immigrants who came to the US when they were minors – while also calling for tough new anti-immigration legislation to be passed by the Republicans in Congress and insisting that the US-Mexico border

The police have charged a New York-based immigration attorney with asylum fraud, after the alleged submission of fraudulent forms for over 180 of her clients. Geoffrey S Berman, the Southern District of New York’s US Attorney, says that 42-year-old Andreea Dumitru has been charged with making fraudulent statements. District Court Judge, Lewis A Kaplan, has

The illicit use of data mined from Facebook has generated headlines lately, but now a new report from The Intercept has accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of also using Facebook data to locate and track suspected undocumented immigrants in the US. The report cites a case in which backend Facebook data was used by

Civil rights advocates and states are preparing to unleash several legal challenges to the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the next US Census, calling the move a threat to civil rights and designed to penalize immigrants. The move came from the Commerce Department late on Monday, in response to a Justice

On Monday, the New Jersey Senate approved a bill to expand the eligibility criteria for financial aid for college students who are also undocumented immigrants. The new bill, S-699, would enable a greater number of in-state college students to apply to receive financial aid, such as tuition aid grants, benefiting students who exited New Jersey