Prosecutorial discretion once again!
©Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2021 As background, prosecutorial discretion under the Department of Homeland Security is essentially a determination by DHS as to which aliens it is going to prosecute and […]
Date and Time needed for perfect NTA, says Supreme Court
On April 29, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States, decided in Niz-Chavez v Garland, Case No. 19-863, 593 U.S. ___ (2021). Basically, in Niz-Chavez, the Supreme Court reiterated […]
The one-year asylum bar – the Mendez-Rojas extension
©Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2021 This blog article provides information on the class settlement between various plaintiffs – asylum-seekers, and the US government. The case is Mendez-Rojas v. Johnson 305 F. […]
US Citizenship Act 2021 – A Summary of Selected sections in point form
Dear Reader: PLEASE NOTE – each and every clause of the new bill is NOT discussed below – this summary is of the clauses that I thought were relevant and […]
DOL and USCIS team up to gut H1B program
The USDOL (Department of Labor), and the USCIS – an agency of the Department of Homeland Security – have teamed up to effectively gut the H1B specialty worker program. In […]
When can you obtain insurance under the Affordable Care Act?
We have received calls on numerous occasions in the office from clients and other people asking if they may obtain medical insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Of course, […]
Practical effects of the Supreme Court’s DACA decision
© Farhad Sethna 2020 On June 18, 2020, the Supreme Court issued a decision that will certainly stay written into the history of DACA forever. On that day, a 5 […]
Professor Sethna presents a talk on International Student Entrepreneurship
A recent talk by Professor Sethna to his immigration students at Akron University.