Category Archives: Current Affairs

The dark side of USCIS

Posted on March 21, 2008 By Joshua Paulin

Immigration is in the news again, with this New York Times article about an adjudications officer who sexually exploited an applicant for a green card. Fortunately, she had recorded the encounter and went to the press; otherwise, it would have been a simple matter for the agency to deny wrongdoing or perhaps even retaliate against […]

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In all fairness to our friends at ICE…

Posted on March 12, 2008 By Joshua Paulin

… sometimes immigration attorneys try to circumvent the law, as well.

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Stepped up enforcement

Posted on March 10, 2008 By Joshua Paulin

Now, it seems that ICE is beginning a campaign of harrassment and intimidation against immigration attorneys! This goes hand in hand with increases in prosecutions for harboring and transportation of unlawfully present immigrants…

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Quis Custodet Ipsos Custodes?

Posted on March 7, 2008 By Joshua Paulin

It’s not often that the practice of immigration law affords one the opportunity to crack out a Latin tag!
Former Immigration Official Gets Prison Term for Harboring Illegal Immigrant 
This does seem to be part of a trend of increased enforcement… and the fact that they went after one of their own shows ICE’s seriousness in this […]

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Name check victory, Part I

Posted on February 14, 2008 By Joshua Paulin

Expect a flood of I-485, I-601, I-687 and I-698 approvals…
… but of course, watch what they do, not what they say:
USCIS has announced that it will begin approving the above listed cases which have cleared FBI fingerprint and IBIS checks,  and for which FBI name checks have been pending for more than 180 days.
N-400 (naturalization) […]

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If it looks too good to be true…

Posted on January 25, 2008 By Joshua Paulin

…run:
Prosecutors said Cucciniello, who has a history of convictions for similar schemes, took about $560,000 from about 60 immigrants in Boston, New York and Greater New Haven. Most were Irish, but others came from Ecuador, Eastern Europe, Italy and Britain.
. . .
Cucciniello, who claimed to be a lawyer at a Yale Law School immigration clinic, […]

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Irish Immigration Center awards

Posted on January 20, 2008 By Joshua Paulin

Along with eight other Boston-area immigration attorneys, I was recently honored by the Irish Immigration Center for Pro Bono service at the Solas Awards Dinner at the Westin Copley. Though I count many of the honorees as my friends, the most humbling aspect for me was the opportunity to share the stage with Eoin […]

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USCIS processing delays

Posted on January 19, 2008 By Joshua Paulin

Emilio Gonzalez recently testified before Congress about the heavy backlogs in adjudication of naturalization applications… briefly, because of the the heavy fee increase last July, many more people than usual sent in applications for permanent residence and N-400 (citizenship) applications so they could pay the lower fee - leading to projected wait times of, on […]

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Spare a prayer…

Posted on August 9, 2007 By Joshua Paulin

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