In an effort to increase efficiency and streamline the admissions process, US Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) has simplified entry into the United States by instituting an automated I-94 process for most nonimmigrants arriving by air and sea. What began as a pilot program in certain ports of entry in April 2022, has become standard procedure across all US ports of entry.
Read moreTravel Report: Highlights of the AILA Annual Conference in San Francisco
Every year the firm sends a few lucky attorneys to the annual American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) conferences. This June I was pleased to attend the San Francisco conference. The conference was perfectly timed. It started June 26, the day the Supreme Court issued its decision in two seminal cases on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which we will discuss in depth in a later post. On this day, in United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court struck down section 3 of DOMA which denied federal benefits to couples in same-sex marriages.
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