Sep 12, 2019
The upside to this administration is that we have all become more aware of our roles in helping to make sure that America lives up to the promises we value. As immigration lawyers in New Orleans, we d...
Sep 9, 2019
Last year, I had a great experience going through the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute (NORLI) program, and on August 29 I attended the first Women of NORLI’s Women’s Equality Summit at the W...
Sep 3, 2019
Earlier this summer, we wrote, “If you’re applying for a visa, you can make your immigration lawyer’s life easier and improve your chances of success if you think before you tweet.” We should have add...
Aug 23, 2019
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 sounds like a good thing because Americans like fairness. But measures that want to make sure that fairness extends to those the system already fav...
Jun 12, 2019
If you’re applying for a visa, you can make your immigration lawyer’s life easier and improve your chances of success if you think before you tweet. Social media is simply a fact of life in ...
May 22, 2019
Recently, Leah Spivey attended a session with Charlie Oppenheim, the Visa Chief for the Department of State at the Federal Bar Immigration Law Conference in Austin, Texas. Oppenheim monitors the ...
Apr 12, 2019
Recently, I spoke at the opening of an ambitious art show, “In Shadow,” at 912 Julia Street. The exhibition used art to start conversations about borders and migration, and the organizers brought in f...
Feb 25, 2019
Today I’m excited to be one of the speakers at a CLE at Tulane University that addresses one of my favorite topics: “Tools for Navigating Immigration Court.” It starts at 2 p.m. in Rm. 110 of the Tula...
Feb 21, 2019
Visa processing delays have reached “crisis level,” according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). A recent study conducted by AILA shows that U.S. Citizenship and Immigra...
Feb 11, 2019
Recentlyu, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced changes to H-1B visa processing that will go into effect April 1 this year. In the past, a lottery granted 20,000 visa t...
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