MESSAGE FROM SISKIND, SUSSER, HAAS AND DEVINE

Dear Readers:

As we are putting this issue to bed, we are also keeping a close eye on legislative activities in Washington. September is make or break month for immigration legislation and we will probably have a great deal of news to report in our next issue. A number of immigrant advocacy organizations will be having lobbying days this month to press Congress on a number of issues. I’ll be in DC attending lobbying events sponsored by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the ABA Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law (on which I serve) and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (on whose Board of Directors I serve). I look forward to reporting on the experience in our October issue.

 As a firm, we’ve had a big month in the news. We were cited as one of the best immigration resources on the Internet by two different publications – Fortune Magazine and Access, the weekly magazine that is distributed with several dozen Sunday newspapers around the country. And by the time you read this, we expect an article on the firm to have run in the Wall Street Journal.

We were also honored when William Paul, the new president of the American Bar Association, mentioned our firm as an illustration of how lawyers can use technology – in our case the Internet – to more effectively deliver legal services to the public.

In this issue, we cover many of the legislative issues currently in Congress. Bills are in the works that would raise the H-1B cap, reverse excesses of the 1996 Immigration Act, reorganize the INS and much more. We also provide analytical articles on how employers can comply with I-9 rules, the basics of consular processing, understanding employee and a special guest article on whether promises by employers to sponsor an applicant for a green card are legally binding.

Also, a reminder of our other free newsletter, Siskind's Immigration Professional. The newsletter provides notices of job openings, reporters seeking story leads, conference announcements, book and software reviews and other announcements that will be of interest to immigration lawyers, paralegals, foreign student advisors and anyone else who handles immigration matters for a living. If you wish to be added to our email distribution list, just email us at immigration.professional@visalaw.com and be sure to tell us a little bit about what kind of immigration-related work you do and where you work. More than 800 of our readers who are immigration professionals have already subscribed. We only include immigration professionals on this list so it is important to specify the type of work in which you are engaged.

And as always, we remind readers that this publication is put out by Siskind, Susser, Haas & Devine, an immigration law firm, and we are available for telephone or in-person consultations to answer immigration questions and discuss our representing individuals and employers in immigration matters. If interested, please go to http://www.visalaw.com/intake.html.

Regards,

Greg Siskind

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