Comment: Immigration Court Proceedings, Expedited Processing
Today's Immigration Daily issue features several items of interest,including Articles, Blogging, and News about Biden's First Budget Is A Missed Opportunity, USCIS Updates Guidance on Expedited Processing, Prosecutorial Discretion is Back!, President Biden takes action to protect democracy, CRS Report on Immigration Court Proceedings and more. Please scroll down to find the item(s) below. Please let us know your thoughts by writing to us at editor@ilw.com

Article: Biden's First Budget Is A Missed Opportunity to Overhaul Immigration Enforcement by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick for Immigration Impact

Blogging: Biden failed to reconcile border policy with the science: Hundreds of thousands cross unvaccinated by Nolan Rappaport

Blogging: USCIS Updates Guidance on Expedited Processing by Chris Musillo

Blogging: Prosecutorial Discretion is Back! Who Benefits? by Carl Shusterman

Blogging: President Biden takes action to protect democracy by reversing Trump's "Criminals" and "Job Stealers" Big Lie measures against nonwhite immigrants By Roger Algase

News: CRS Report on Immigration Court Proceedings: Process and Data

Focus: PERM For Beginners and Advanced Practitioners -- Inventory Clearance Sale 75% Off
Joel Stewart has done something remarkable in the new edition of THE PERM BOOK. He has taken the spaghetti of all the sources on PERM: legislations, rules, FAQs, cases, etc., and reintegrated them into a simple and luminously logical progression of how to do PERM. In each of the chapters, he uses articles by notable practitioners and his own extensive commentary to provide deep insights on every aspect of PERM. If you are a seasoned PERM practitioner, you will appreciate the clarity of the organization seen in the table of contents below and will discover many new insights in every chapter. For anyone relatively new to PERM, Joel Stewart serves as a trusted guide to your mastering the lay of the land of this complex area. This book belongs on the library shelf of every PERM practitioner.

Headline: Immigration judges decide who gets into the U.S. They say they're overworked and under political pressure. Click here
Headline: Biden's illegal-immigration welcome mat caused disaster at the border Click here
Headline: United States: National Immigrant Heritage Month Augurs Good Tidings (That Better Be Soon) On Legal Immigration Reforms Click here
Headline: With a backlog of over 1.3 million cases, the 500 immigration judges in the US feel overburdened and pressured to deport Click here
Headline: New York gave every detained immigrant a lawyer. It could serve as a national model. Click here

Immigration Attorney
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Immigration Paralegal
Equivity is looking for a part-time virtual paralegal with recent experience supporting attorneys in completing immigration petitions and applications, including employment-based petitions. Bachelor's degree plus at least three years of experience in immigration law, including preparing applications for immigration, cover letters, support letters, and gathering and organizing other supporting documents. Bilingual in Spanish is a plus. We are seeking a virtual paralegal who has recently (within the last six months) worked in an immigration law firm and is able to prepare immigration forms for NVC and USCIS, draft correspondence and support letters, compile petitions and supporting documents, create and update standard immigration questionnaires. The candidate must be familiar with preparing immigrant and non-immigrant visas and have experience preparing employment-based petitions such as H1-B, EB-1, EB-3, PERM, Adjustment of Status, etc. Experience with naturalization, applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and cancelation of removal, preparing motions; preparing I-601 and I-601A waivers; and preparing applications for citizenship would be a plus. Detail-oriented, proactive, extremely organized, and possesses strong case management skills. The ideal candidate will be very technologically adept and have excellent Word and Adobe skills. In addition, the candidate should have experience working with cloud-based practice management software such as INS Zoom, Prima Facie Now, e-Immigration, Clio, or Blue Dot. You will need your own laptop and smart phone with broadband access to Internet and quiet location in which to take phone calls. Equivity matches clients with virtual assistants that provide long-term paralegal, administrative and marketing support. To apply, Visit Equivity

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