Additional screening at ports of entry will cause significant delay
© Farhad Sethna, Attorney, 2026 Additional screening requirements on all travelers at all ports of entry – land, sea and air – will cause significant delays in entry to the […]
Visa applications in India seriously delayed
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 If anyone is thinking of travelling to India now to get their H-1B or other work visa stamped to be able to return to the […]
The 100-grand* question. Are you affected?
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 Here’s another episode in the ongoing saga of the H-1b hundred-thousand-dollar proclamation. Like Jason Voorhees of “Friday the 13th” infamy, this is a horror story […]
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 […]
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 […]
Begone, Alien Enemies!
© Farhad Sethna, attorney, 2025 The Supreme Court‘s decision in Trump v. J.G.G., issued on Monday, April 7 is terrifying: The Supreme Court held that Trump can deport individuals under […]