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A MESSAGE FROM SISKIND, SUSSER, HAAS & DEVINE
Dear Readers: 
One of the less publicized provisions of the LIFE Act, signed by President Clinton last December, is the creation of the new V visa. This is a visa that allows spouses and minor children of US permanent residents to come into the US and work while they wait for their green cards. The visa requires that the I-130 petition be pending for three years and that it was pending before the law was signed. The INS and the State Department are finally processing at least some of these cases. To find out more, read this week’s ABCs of Immigration article on V visas. 
We also report this week on an important immigration bill introduced this week by Representative Barney Frank (D-MA). The bill seeks to restore many of the due process rights taken away by the 1996 immigration acts. 
In our News from the Courts column, we report on a landmark California Supreme Court case that will make it much easier for people convicted of crimes to have their cases reversed if they were given bad immigration advice by their criminal defense attorneys. This could help numerous people avoid deportation under the strict rules applicable to criminal aliens. 
In firm news, we remind readers that on Monday we will be hosting a telephone seminar on H-1B visas. To sign up, just go to https://secure.telalink.net/gsiskind/teleseminar.html. We review the recent AC21 law as well as the new Labor Department regulations. 
We also invite readers to visit our revamped bulletin board at http://www.novatech.net:8080/~sshd.  Regular readers of our bulletin board will no doubt appreciate the many changes on the site. Please note that you will now need to register on the site to post messages. This will allow us to more easily remove participants on the site who fail to adhere to the board’s ground rules. 
And finally, as always, we remind readers that this newsletter is published by Siskind, Susser, Haas & Devine, a law firm that represents clients throughout North America. If you are interested in scheduling a telephone consultation to discuss immigration questions you may have or to discuss the possibility of Siskind, Susser, Haas & Devine handling your immigration case, please go to http://www.visalaw.com/intake.html. 
In most cases, we are able to schedule a consultation within two days and we can often accommodate evening and weekend appointments. We have a number of our lawyers working overtime to accommodate the recent surge in interest in the new LIFE Act and will do so until the April 30th 245i filing deadline. <ぐ颵ᇏ芻ꨀ봀௎噓�۷?譗Ѿ੷譟廎沔>
Thanks again for your continued loyalty.  
Greg Siskind