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The American Immigration Law Foundation is seeking attorneys who have clients who have been affected by substantial delays in the processing of Labor Condition Applications in H-1B cases. The Immigration and Nationality Act requires the Department of Labor to process LCAs in seven days or less, but a number of Department of Labor regions are reportedly taking weeks and even months to process them. Immigration lawyers with clients who have faced these delays are asked to contact Anna Gallagher, Director of the Legal Action Center of AILF at 202-216-2429.

AILF and the ACLU are also monitoring members of the CSS plaintiffs class placed in expedited removal proceedings (see story above). AILF is looking for the following cases:

- Those CSS members who have entered the US on advanced parole since April 1, 1997;

- Those CSS members who were placed in exclusion proceedings prior to the Ninth Circuit decision (prior to January 16, 1998);

- Those CSS members who have been placed in deferred inspection;

- Those CSS class members who are currently outside the country and intend to return on an advance authorization of parole.

- Those CSS class members who are currently in expedited removal proceedings.

Contact Anne Gallagher at the phone number above if you can assist with this potential litigation.

Under IIRAIRA Section 343, foreign non-physician health care workers are inadmissible to the US unless they present credentials verifying their training, licensing, experience and English competency. After a year and a half, the INS has yet to issue or even propose implementing regulations and the permanent residency applications of the affected group of individuals are being held up as a result. AILF is also seeking lawyers with clients affected by INS failure to publish implementing regulations. If you represent health care workers or their employers, you are also asked to contact Anne Gallagher at the number above.