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Curriculum For Seminar On Consular/Visa Issues & Border Security
The curriculum for the new seminar on Consular/Visa Issues & Border Security is as follows:
FIRST Phone Session on December 17: Consular/Visa Application Issues
- Recent Changes in Consular Processing at Border Posts
- Changes to TCN Appointment System
- Amendment to the Automatic Revalidation Provision of 22 CFR 42.112(d)
- Procedures Followed if Visa Denied
- How to get back to U.S. if denied visa at Border Post
- Exceptions to 222(g)
- Security Checks and the accompanying Delays - Security Advisory Opinions (SAO)
- NCIC updated with over 7 million records (even simple offenses)
- Visa Condor Checks
- Technology Alert List
- IPASS
- Spot Checks of Visas
- Understanding the Revised and New Visa Application Forms
- DS-156
- DS-157
- DS-158
- Canadian Landed Immigrants from Commonwealth Countries
- Is Revalidation of Visas through DOS still an Option?
SECOND Phone Session on January 17: Inspection/Admission Border Security Issues
- Lookout Lists: CLASS, IBIS, CAPS, AIPS, NAILS, NCIC
- Special Registration - Designated Ports of Departure (POD)
- Data Sharing/Mining
- Entry/Exit Control
- Admissions under Advance Parole
- Automatic Visa Revalidation - 22 CFR 41.112(d)
- Student Commuters
- Proposed B Regulation including B-2 Prospective Student Notation
- Admission Mistakes
- AR-11 Issues
THIRD Phone Session on February 17: Summary of Visa/Inspection Issues with main focus on future Additional issues including Homeland Security Act of 2002
- Summary of Main Issues from the first two sessions
- GAO Study - Border Security
- Homeland Security Act
- Directorate of Border & Transportation Security
- Section 402
- Section 428 - Visa Issuance
- Section 429 - Visa Denials
- Immigration Enforcement Functions
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Immigration Law News
DOL Dismisses H-2A Matter
In the Matter of Kona Coffee Bean Processors, No. 2003-TLC-00001 (OALJ, Nov. 26, 2002), the Office of Administrative Law Judges dismissed the H-2A case pursuant to the employer's motion to withdraw its appeal.
DOS Designates Foreign Terrorist Organizations
The Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism issued a notice stating "the Deputy Secretary of State hereby amends the 2001 redesignation of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK and other aliases) as a "foreign terrorist organization" and to add the following names as aliases of the PKK: Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress, Freedom and Democracy Congress of Kurdistan, and KADEK, effective December 3, 2002."
INS Seeks Comments
The INS sought comments on the INS case status service online (File No. OMB-33) and provided a 30-day notice of information collection under review.
Actual Text Of DOJ FY 02' Appropriations Act
The actual text of H.R. 2215, an Act to authorize appropriations for the Department of Justice for fiscal year 2002 is now available.
VWPP Deportation Review Waived By I-94W Form
In US v. Abiola, No. 02-4436 (4th Cir. Dec. 3, 2002), the court said that the Defendant could not collaterally attack his prior
deportation order under the VWPP because he could not show that it was
obtained under conditions that were fundamentally unfair since he validly
waived his right to review of the INS's determination of his deportability
since the I-94W form includes a waiver of rights, and since he reads,
speaks and understands English.
Transportation Through Hot Texas Brush Is Reckless Endangerment
In US v. Garcia-Guerrero, No. 02-40108 (5th Cir. Dec. 2, 2002), the court held that Defendant engaged in conduct that placed the aliens he
was transporting in substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury for
the purposes of sentence enhancement when he transported aliens through the
hot South Texas brush in the heat of summer with inadequate water and food.
District Courts Cannot Vacate Convictions On Solely Equitable Grounds
In US v. Bravo-Diaz, No. 02-50031 (9th Cir. Dec. 3, 2002), the court held that District Courts do not have jurisdiction under the All
Writs Act to vacate convictions on solely equitable grounds and said that
vacation of a conviction on the ground that a federal court thinks it is
unfair that an alien will be deported as a result of that conviction usurps
the power of Congress to set naturalization and deportation standards and
the power of the INS to administer those standards in each individual case.
Immigration Attorney Says He Was Victimized By Scam Artist
The Washington Post reports "Attorneys for Samuel G. Kooritzky, an
Arlington immigration lawyer accused by federal authorities of
multimillion-dollar fraud, said yesterday their client was victimized by a
"scam artist" who forged signatures and documents without Kooritzky's
knowledge."
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