New York Times: "'Verbatim: What is a Photocopier?'"

The New York Times has a new series, presented by Op-Docs, featuring re-creations of actual events from law and government that transform "verbatim (word for word) legal transcripts into dramatic, and often comedic, performances." The debut is from a deposition in an Ohio Supreme Court Case regarding a decision by the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office to no longer provide digital files of public records and instead charge $2 per page for hard copies. Not immigration related, but our office does have a couple of those machines where you can "put in a paper document, push a button or two, and out will come copies of that paper document also on paper[.]" We wonder if any immigration court cases will make an appearance in this series.

Click on image or here to watch dramatization on The New York Times website.

Fabergé Big Egg Hunt

A few colorful selections from the Big Egg Hunt.

Pro Publica: "How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself"

Does the U.S. citizenship test contain errors? Yes, says recently naturalized US citizen Dafna Linzer: 

After years of steep filing fees and paperwork (including one letter from Homeland Security claiming that my fingerprints had "expired"), it all came down to a test. I passed, and, my fellow Americans, you could, too -- if you don't mind providing answers that you know are wrong.

Among the answers that are incorect, Dafna writes, are ones regarding whether the Vice President is a member of president's cabinet or merely a cabinet-level officer, what exactly the rule of law is (the test answers stumped lawyers and law professors), and what the Declaration of Independence did ("Heeding my lawyer's advice," she writes, "I went with the official answer: 'declared our independence.'") You can take a practice naturalization test here. 

Read on Pro Publica: "How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself"