From the monthly archives:

August 2010

CBS Poll’s Disturbing Stat on AZ Immigration Law SB 1070

August 31, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Brace yourselves.
And be prepared a bit of nausea.
The latest CBS poll found that 59 percent of Americans view Arizona’s SB 1070, the immigration bill that allows Arizona to prosecute immigration violations, as “just right,” while another 14 percent think the bill [...]

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U.S. Files New Suit on Ariz. Immigration Issue

August 31, 2010

Source: Washington Post
The Justice Department filed another lawsuit against immigration practices by Arizona authorities, saying Monday that a network of community colleges acted illegally in requiring noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.
The suit against the Phoenix area Maricopa Community Colleges was filed less than two months after [...]

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Muslims Fight “Rising Tide” of Fear Mongering w/Online Video

August 31, 2010

With anti-immigrant sentiment raging through the country these days and anger reaching the boiling point because of the possibility of a Muslim community center being built near Ground Zero in New York’s downtown Manhattan, a Muslim group called “My Faith My Voice” has launched an online video to fight back against “the rising tide of [...]

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Immigration FAQ: From Tourist Visa to Student Visa

August 31, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Question: I entered the U.S. three months ago on a visitors visa. I have been staying with my aunt and cousins. My aunt told me that if I wanted to go to school, I could stay with her. I have a high [...]

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Silence on Immigration Talk: Calm Before Storm?

August 30, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Have you noticed something odd since last Tuesday’s primary, which voted back in Arizona Sen. John McCain while sending a clear message to, if not slapping upside the head Florida Attorney General and governor wannabe Bill McCollum?
It’s become, in the words of Simon and Garfunkel, [...]

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In Fla, Primary Loss Shows Limits of Immigrant Bashing

August 30, 2010

Source: Huffington Post
By Frank Sharry
Founder and Executive Director of America’s Voice
In Florida, Bill McCollum’s Primary Loss Shows Limits of Immigrant Bashing
While most analysis of immigration politics has focused on Arizona lately, both parties should take note of the results of last Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary in Florida. In states with a significant Latino presence, [...]

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Wyclef Jean Talking about his Immigration

August 30, 2010

Haitian-born Wyclef Jean talking about his immigration.
[...]

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Immigration FAQ: Employer’s Responsibility in H-1 Process

August 30, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Question: We are small business firm with a few H1-B workers.
1. Do we need to file a separate labor petition whenever a H1-B worker moves to an different project location?
2. We are having difficulty finding project for one of our h1b [...]

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Immigration FAQ: Fake Green Card & Marriage to a US Citizen

August 27, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Question: I am a U.S. citizen and have a good job. My boyfriend of nie years came here on a visitor visa in June 1996. I just found out that he is using someone else’s social security number with that person’s name [...]

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Truth Held Hostage: Dissecting Lies about Kidnapping in AZ

August 27, 2010

Source: Immigration Policy Center
In their never-ending attempts to score cheap political points by demonizing unauthorized immigrants, proponents of Arizona’s
anti-immigration law (SB 1070) never miss an opportunity to perpetuate the myth that “Phoenix is the number two kidnapping capital of the world.”
Not only is this claim patently untrue, but it ignores two inconvenient facts.
First, [...]

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Immigration Hall of Shame List – The Huff’s and Ours

August 26, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
We positively adore this Immigration Hall of Shame list offered by Amy Novack, the Executive Director of Immigrant’s List (IL), a bipartisan political action committee dedicated to fair and meaningful immigration reform, in The Huffington Post:
1 – Former State Assemblywoman Sharron Angle [...]

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Immigration: Green Card Holder Traveliing Abroad a Long Time

August 26, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Question: I am a US citizen married to a green card holder. I married my husband in 1996. He went home to Pakistan to take care of my father-in-law. Due to some unforeseen situation regarding his illness, he ended staying there longer. [...]

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Birthright Citizenship Under Siege in Not Just US but Israel

August 25, 2010

Source: The Huffington Post
By Eli Y. Adashi
One cannot help but note an eerie similarity between the birthright debates raging in the US and the State of Israel. Both nations are badly in need of resetting their immigration policies in the face of a rapidly globalizing flat planet. Both must face up to the reality that [...]

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Immigration FAQ: Employer Not Paying – May I Transfer H-1?

August 25, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Question: I am on H-1B since Oct 1st 2008 and working with my employer at his site. Though he is paying me in cash and kind he is not running a payroll for me since the inception. Now if I want to [...]

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McCain the Immigration Hard-Liner Wins

August 25, 2010

Ok, Sen. McCain, we applaud your win over J.D. Hayworth yesterday, like we said we would – but we won’t forget that it came via your disturbing transformation from a bipartisan maverick who once breathed life into a legal pathway for undocumented immigrants to a hard-line populist catering to those who wish your precious Arizona [...]

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When Will the John McCain We Once Loved Return to Us?

August 24, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
There was a time when we really loved, respected, and admired Sen. John McCain.
He was a shot-down Vietnam war hero who spent nearly six years within that torture chamber called the Hanoi Hilton, refusing a way out to continue suffering with his troops. He was a [...]

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Divorcing and Removing Conditions on Permanent Residence

August 24, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Question: I got married in July, 2000, to an American citizen and we have a son who was born on March 31, 2002. I am awaiting my green card in the mail, but I need to file for a divorce. I believe [...]

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Can We Just Leave Babies Out of the Immigration Debate?

August 23, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
As the November elections get closer and closer, you’ll hear louder and louder rants from the Self-Righteous Right and those insipid Tea Party Animals how America should simply scrap the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that grants citizenship to all persons born in this country.
The [...]

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Cancellation of Removal for Unlawful Permanent Residents

August 23, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Question: In October 2000, I entered the US on a K-1 fiancee visa, but not too long after my entry, the relationship with my fiancee fell apart, and we never married. Shortly after we broke up, I met a wonderful man who [...]

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DREAM Act: American Dream, American Nightmare

August 20, 2010

Source: The Huffington Post
By David Perez
J.D., Yale Law School
Imagine a world where you couldn’t dream of a better future, but others around you could. Where you knew that no matter how much you studied, or how hard you worked, you would never realize your full potential. Where your friends could go on to college, law [...]

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