Queens Immigration

Immigration Attorneys serving the entire New York City, Long Island area. Deportation/removal, green cards, citizenship, business visas. [phone]

[NFAPResearch @NFAPResearch]

The judge rejected the Trump admin’s argument that the $100,000 fee was not a “tax” but merely “a regulatory payment.” The Supreme Court has ruled the power to tax belongs to Congress, not the president (or Stephen Miller). @David_J_Bier @gsiskind https://t.co/e37kQFOd5d

[CNN @CNN]

A federal judge has voided President Donald Trump’s requirement of a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas, ruling that he lacked authority to impose the new policy for a program used by companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers in specialized fields. https://t.co/P7mG2iCGkP

[Cyrus Mehta @cyrusmehta]

The Supreme Court's tariffs decision in Learning Resources influenced the court in finding Trump's $100,000 fee unlawful, and although this court did not state so explicitly, under the major questions doctrine where executive actions have major economic or political significance there has to be explicit Congressional authorization, and here there was none notwithstanding the broad authority given to the President under INA 212(f) in determining the entry of aliens into the US @forbes https://t.co/40FVp2LyPy

[Queens Immigration @ImmigrationQns]

Check out this article: https://t.co/IgWmw8JbTq

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

The people harmed by this xenophobic and racist policy weren’t those trying to cheat the system. They were the people who followed every rule, submitted every document, and paid every fee they were required to.

Judge McConnell’s ruling is an important reminder that @DHSgov and @SecMullinDHS seem to always forget: the government cannot simply pick and choose which laws it gets to enforce just because they want to force their own discriminatory political agendas.

[Queens Immigration @ImmigrationQns]

https://t.co/X1g4kMPodO

[Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum]

A Rhode Island judge has vacated a freeze on work permits and other benefits for people from 39 travel ban countries.

Trump policies "placed the lives of countless individuals on hold—solely by virtue of their countries of birth," he wrote.

https://t.co/1aOL54Wsvx

[Press Unpause @PressUnpause]

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS!🚨🚨🚨
THE 39 COUNTRIES PAUSE HAVE BEEN VACATED BY THE DORCAS V USCIS LAWSUIT FEDERAL JUDGE IN MASSACHUSETTS FOR EVERYONE!!!
Each of the Challenged Policies have been declared unlawful and are hereby VACATED and SET ASIDE.
We'll provide furter details later

[Bardia @TSMERDIST]

More than six months ago, USCIS stopped processing thousands of cases filed by legal immigrants.

Since then, people have lost jobs. Lost income. Lost health insurance. Some are now at risk of losing their homes.

The government says these individuals require additional vetting. But if they are truly a concern, why leave them inside the United States indefinitely instead of reviewing their cases and making decisions?

Students. Engineers. Researchers. Doctors.

People who followed every rule should not be punished for doing things the right way.

Six months is not a pause.

It is a crisis.

@SecMullinDHS @USCISJoe @SenGaryPeters @RandPaul @RepYassAnsari

#LiftTheHold #USCISPause

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

This morning, I observed several mega master hearings — a new tactic the Trump administration is using where up to 100 people appear before an immigration judge as if they are on an assembly line.

Trump has turned our immigration system into a factory, denying due process and ignoring the law to indiscriminately and illegally remove our immigrant community members from this country.

This is a blatant violation of due process, and it must be stopped.

[AILA @AILANational]

AILA Past President Charles Kuck: "The memo cannot change the statute...What it can do — what it is designed to do — is raise the bar so high that the law becomes functionally inaccessible." https://t.co/RzvWDVWSk8

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has detained nearly half a million immigrants, according to a report. But the number of children they leave behind and what happens to them, most of whom are U.S. citizens, is largely unknown.
https://t.co/oks6ADG9ip

[Bloomberg @business]

The Department of Homeland Security said that highly qualified and skilled green-card applicants will see no noticeable impact from a controversial policy announced last week https://t.co/tPctNlkfZD

[Grace Meng @Grace4NY]

Trump's attack on green card holders is already causing chaos and confusion.

It was never about safety. This anti-immigration agenda has always been about terrorizing immigrants and tearing families apart. https://t.co/MquguOGFh8

[Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum]

A DHS memo deeming green cards applications within the US an "extraordinary" benefit, rather than a routine process, ignores decades of immigration law and legal precedent.

Litigation over the memo is virtually certain. It's a matter of when and which plaintiffs sue.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The Trump administration has deported 21,000 immigrants to places that the US State Department calls too dangerous for Americans to visit. The overwhelming majority of those deported had no criminal convictions, and at least 600 were children. https://t.co/VLmLiJQT8G

[Charles Kuck @ckuck]

You have to wonder if @USCISJoe intentionally left out Matter of Arai from his Adjustment memo, or he is simply that bad a lawyer that he does not know of the seminal case on presumptively granting adjustment of status, absent negative factors.

"In the absence of adverse factors, adjustment will ordinarily be granted, still as a matter of discretion. "

https://t.co/oLNVn7TjU8

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

There's zero reason to force people who have already legally spent years building a life here to leave the country to apply for a green card. These aren’t the hardened criminals the Administration says it goes after. It's just making life harder for people who are already contributing to our communities and takes workers and businessowners away from building up our economy.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The Trump administration seems to want to scare people away from applying for green cards. But immigration lawyers say the new policy may not withstand judicial scrutiny https://t.co/9AMuoVdqru

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

The new DHS green card policy will drive talented people to other countries and make America a less competitive place for business, says Cato’s @David_J_Bier.

Check out his research:
https://t.co/yygKLVYYIL