The $100,000 question: to pay or not?
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 The presidential proclamation of September 19, 2025, which sent a lot of H-1b employers and H-1b beneficiaries into a tizzy, seems to be resolved, at […]
Making sense of the “H-1b Proclamation”
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 On September 19, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation titled “Restriction on Entry of Certain Non-Immigrant Workers“, where he targeted H-1b workers. This article […]
Rebutting the presumption of Mandatory Detention under Matter of Q Li?
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 Reference: BIA decision – Matter of Q Li, 29 I&N Dec. 66 (BIA) 2025) Since the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued Matter of […]
𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥
© Farhad Sethna, Attorney, 2025 Much has been written about “Civil Immigration Detention” over the last few months, especially in the context of Trump’s draconian deportation actions. However, immigration detention […]
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥
© Farhad Sethna, Attorney 2025 The Big Beautiful Bill Act has brought with it a host of increased and new fees for immigration. Rather than list all of those fees […]
Supreme Court Ends TPS for Venezuelans: What It Means and What You Can Do
© Farhad Sethna and Andrea Rodriguez, Attorneys, 2025 On May 19, 2025, The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision allowing the Trump Administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for […]
“Can I go home for a vacation?”
© Farhad Sethna, attorney, 2025 A common question I hear from many of my F-1 (student visa) and H1-B (work visa) clients is: “Can I go home for a vacation?” […]
DACA kicked in the teeth again
© Farhad Sethna, attorney, 2025 The Trump led “efficiency” machine is at it again, this time with an anti-immigrant focus. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients have received another […]