Dear Readers:
This week we report on an important new component of the post 9/11 immigration program changes. The State Department has implemented its new ISEAS student visa tracking system. The program is certainly not free of glitches, but it is here and compliance is absolutely required by schools if students are going to get visas. We review the new rules in this week’s ABCs of Immigration.
We also have a report this week on a political controversy surrounding Tom Tancredo, the Colorado Republican Congressman who is usually considered the most anti-immigrant legislator in Washington. Tancredo has made the news for two reasons. One is because he is pushing the INS to deport a straight-A high school student who had the temerity to say that he hoped to attend college. The other is because it was revealed by a Denver paper this week that Tancredo has had illegal aliens doing construction work in his home.
This week we also say goodbye to Shadrick King, a law clerk at Siskind, Susser, Haas & Devine who contributed to this newsletter during his summer here. Shadrick has been great to work with and will be missed. He’s off to the United Kingdom to pursue a master’s degree in law over the next year and we wish him well.
While we say goodbye to Shadrick, we welcome SSHD’s newest attorney David Delgado. David has joined the firm as an associate in our headquarters office in Memphis. David will also be working with Amy Ballentine and me on this weekly publication so his name should become more familiar to you soon.
Finally, as always, we remind readers that we’re lawyers who make our living representing immigration clients. We would love to discuss becoming your law firm. Just go to http://visalaw.wpengine.com/intake.html to request an appointment or call us at 800-748-3819 or 901-682-6455.
Kind regards,
Greg Siskind
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