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Entries Tagged as 'Immigration Law'

The vagarities of immigration processing

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

The USCIS has recently announced — yet again — another delay in the initial processing of immigration petitions and applications. This seems to be linked to the sudden huge increase in processing fees on July 30, 2007 causing a huge influx in naturalization applications to be filed right before the increase went into effect. […]

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Tags: Immigration Law · Ruminations

New USCIS I-9 Compliance Manual and Employee Form

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

The USCIS has issued a compliance manual for employers, M-274, Handbook for Employers regarding completing and retaining the amended I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form. This manual is also useful because it explains when an employer may be subject to penalties for discrimination during the I-9 form process.
It is interesting to note that even employers of […]

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Tags: Immigration Law

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About the author:

Alex T. Roshuk is a New York State attorney. He has two law degrees from McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada (B.C.L./LL.B., 1997) and has been practicing law in New York City since 1998 advising businesses, individuals and not-for-profit organizations in transactional and litigation related matters. He was the first legal adviser to the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (Wikipedia) from 2003 to 2005 assisting with the organization's tax exempt application to the IRS, trademark applications, and various copyright related issues. Prior to becoming a lawyer Mr. Roshuk worked in the entertainment industry as a film editor, radio announcer, television producer and director and as an administrator and/or director of numerous not-for-profit media arts organizations in the United States and Canada. He studied electrical engineering at Princeton University in the 1970s. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.