Children, Elected Officials, Advocates & Immigrant NYers Rally at City Hall, Demand Mayor Adams Eliminate 60-Day Rule

Children, Elected Officials, Advocates & Immigrant NYers Rally at City Hall, Demand Mayor Adams Eliminate 60-Day Rule

Photos: NYIC By NYIC Press New York—On Tuesday, December 14 at 4PM, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), United Federation of Teachers, elected officials, education allies, asylum seeking families, and immigrant New Yorkers held a children’s March and a press conference at City Hall Park, urging Mayor Adams to stop attacking the city’s right to […]

Montefiore Lower Hudson Valley Nurses Authorize Strike

Montefiore Lower Hudson Valley Nurses Authorize Strike

Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com NYSNA Nurses at Nyack, New Rochelle, and Mount Vernon Hospitals Overwhelmingly Authorize a Strike with 96% Voting in Favor Nearly 800 Nurses Ready to Strike for Safe Staffing and Respect More than 40 Elected and Community Leaders Add Support to Nurses’ Demands for Fair Contracts Nyack, N.Y.— Approximately 96% […]

Governor Hochul Continues New York’s Leadership on Racial Equity, Signs Legislation Establishing Commission to Study Reparations and Racial Justice

Governor Hochul Continues New York’s Leadership on Racial Equity, Signs Legislation Establishing Commission to Study Reparations and Racial Justice

Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By Governor’s Press Office | December 19, 2023 Listen to New York Gov. Hochul on signing the bill on reparations below and here: Listen to Senator James Sanders speaking about the reparations bill here. Listen to Brian Figeroux speaking about reparations here. S.1163-A/A.7691 Establishes the New York State Community […]

American Citizens Will Be Targeted By New Texas “Show Me Your Papers” Law

American Citizens Will Be Targeted By New Texas “Show Me Your Papers” Law

Editorial credit: Grossinger / Shutterstock.com Washington, DC — Yesterday, Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed new “show me your papers” anti-immigrant legislation that empowers every officer of the law to question the citizenship of any Texas resident and detain them. The new measure continues the state’s crackdown on the civil rights and freedoms of residents, including citizens, and […]

Schumer and McConnell say Senate will Take Up Immigration and National Security Package in the New Year

Schumer and McConnell say Senate will Take Up Immigration and National Security Package in the New Year

Editorial credit: Consolidated News Photos / Shutterstock.com By Morgan Rimmer, Kristin Wilson and Jack Forrest | December 19, 2023 | CNN CNN — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a joint statement Tuesday acknowledging that senators will not reach a deal on immigration this week, pushing negotiations over the larger national security package with aid for Ukraine and […]

DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez Reveals Historic Achievements in Minority Business Contracting

DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez Reveals Historic Achievements in Minority Business Contracting

Photos courtesy: NYC DOT NEW YORK – In an innovative event that marked a historic shift in the city’s contracting landscape, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) hosted its annual event “Doing Business with the DOT,” attracting over 500 business owners and executives. The gathering served as a testament to the unwavering […]

USCIS Reaches Fiscal Year 2024 H-1B Cap

USCIS Reaches Fiscal Year 2024 H-1B Cap

USCIS has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2024. We will send non-selection notices to registrants through their online accounts over the next few days. When […]

DHS Publishes Federal Register Notice Announcing the Extensions of Re-Registration Periods for Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan

DHS Publishes Federal Register Notice Announcing the Extensions of Re-Registration Periods for Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan

Editorial credit: christianthiel.net / Shutterstock.com WASHINGTON – Consistent with its September announcement, the Department of Homeland Security today published a Federal Register notice reiterating the extensions of the periods to re-register for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under the existing designations of El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan. As previously announced, the re-registration period for each […]

USCIS Changes Filing Location for Requests for Premium Processing for Pending Immigrant Petitions for Alien Workers

USCIS Changes Filing Location for Requests for Premium Processing for Pending Immigrant Petitions for Alien Workers

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today a change in the filing location for Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing, for currently pending Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers, as part of efforts to increase efficiency by reducing USCIS’ footprint at the service centers and reducing costs related to Service Center intake of Forms I-140 and I-907. This […]

SCOTUS to Decide When Courts Can Review Decisions about Immigration Relief… Again

SCOTUS to Decide When Courts Can Review Decisions about Immigration Relief… Again

By Suchita Mathur | December 15, 2023 | Immigration Impact Families are complicated. Especially during the holidays, that’s something we can all agree on. But most of us can’t – or will never have to – imagine being forcibly separated from our closest relatives because an overworked immigration judge (IJ) misapplied a legal standard in deciding whether […]