Articles Posted in Executive Actions

In this segment, attorney Jacob J. Sapochnick discusses how President Barack Obama’s Executive Actions on immigration can benefit employment-based visa holders. To learn more about the status of the Executive Actions please click here. For information about employment-based green cards click here.

https://soundcloud.com/askanimmigrationlawyer/how-about-those-who-are-in-the-us-under-employment-based-visas-what-can-they-benefit-from-obamas-executive-action

Overview:

How can individuals in the United States under an employment-based visa benefit from Obama’s executive actions on immigration?

  • Visa allocation for highly skilled workers is likely to improve visa processing;
  • The government will work with the State Department to ensure that all visas authorized by Congress will be issued to people who are eligible;
  • Visa issuance backlogs will likely improve;
  • The process for determining visa availability likely to improve;
  • Rules will be put in place so that priority dates will be preserved for people who are in the process of changing jobs;

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In this segment, attorney Jacob J. Sapochnick discusses a new development relating to President Barack Obama’s November 2014 executive action on immigration. For more information about President Obama’s executive actions on immigration please click here and here.

https://soundcloud.com/askanimmigrationlawyer/ep-66-executive-action-december-update

Overview: 

  • SCOTUS recently granted a request that secures timely consideration for President Obama’s Executive Actions raising the likelihood the case will be heard in the spring and a decision by the end of June; just a few months before the Presidential election.
  • When the Executive Actions on immigration were announced last year, several states filed an injunction against extended DACA and DAPA and those provisions have been at a standstill ever since.
  • Twenty-six states were involved in the lawsuit, with Texas as the lead plaintiff.

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