Wednesday, February 03, 2010

ENTRIES AT THE NEWARK AIRPORT

During the last week, the headquarters of the Customs and Border Patrol has provided AILA with information about the enforcement activities at the Newark airport. The CBP inspectors at the Newark airport have been assisting in an investigation of certain H-1b nonimmigrants and H-1b companies. Many of the recent cases where individuals were detained involved companies that were apparently under investigation by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
However, the Newark Airport has implemented a new policy for other situations as well. The following should be noted:
1. RANDOM CHECKS: The Newark airport is doing random checks for returning H-1b, L-1 and other employment-based visa holders. If there are questions about inadmissibility, the person will be sent to secondary inspection for further interview.
2. LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENTS: Lawful Permanent Residents with a criminal conviction after 1998 should expect to be detained. If the airport cannot obtain a copy of the conviction record within 24 hours, the person may be released. The person should be proactive in traveling with a court certified copy of the court disposition - and should consult with an attorney before traveling.
3. CONDITONAL PERMANENT RESIDENTS: Individuals with pending I-751 petitions (applications to remove conditional permanent residence granted to one who married a U.S. citizen) will be sent to secondary inspection for further interview to verify the validity of the petition.
4. EMPLOYER VERIFICATION: Employers may be contacted to verify/substantiate the employment details in the petition of an H-1b, L-1 or other employment-based visa holder entering the Newark airport.
5. EMPLOYER DATA: Employers and employees should expect that CBP may check other sources such as company websites for consistency with the information in the petitions.

4 comments:

  1. If there is no demand for Nurses then a bill should be introduce in senate to kick back all the foreign nurses to their respective countries who are on temporary visas.

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  2. its a crazy idea to kick back people who come with so many hopes.Their whole future plans will be shattered.
    Well if there is no further necessity better stop giving new visas.why do u penalize all those who have come in legally.The govt should have thought of before giving that visa.they are giving a visa means that they are in need of their services.So asking the govt to kick back the already existing people would directly question the integrity of the govt decision to allow them in the first.Has the govt made a wrong decision? no one knows.Senate has bigger problems to deal with rather than running after nurses.they are meant to make extremely high decisions.dont expect them to sit there and keep fighting whether to keep nurses or not.No one has that kind of time there at those levels.
    It looks like u have written this in frustration.things are bad sometimes not always.give cahnce and hope to other people also.God has not created u alone.he created them also and gave them equal freedom.

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  3. I don’t understand why PD movement for the ROW applicants is so slow??
    Bcz during the retrogression all RNs suffered but the most who suffered are applicants from ALL CHARGEABILITY AREAS, since applicants from Filippine, India and China together make almost 70 % of total applications. While applicants from ROW makes less then 30 %. So What about the 7 % Per Country limit?, bcz if the PD for some countries move as the ROW, so there is no need to separate them.

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