In the wake of rescue efforts after the disastrous major earthquake that was the worst of all in Haiti for the past 200 years, American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA) is now asking the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to grant Temporary Protective Status (TPS) to the nationals of Haiti.  

Last year we reported to you a story of a fallen US Marine and his family’s immigration story where USCIS refused to recognize the marriage between the two and therefore denied the “green card” application filed by the pregnant wife, Hotaru Ferschle of Okinawa, Japan, after Michael Ferschke, 22, a team leader with the Okinawa-based 3^rd Reconnaissance Battlalion, 3^rd Marine Division, was killed in Iraq during a house to house search only shortly after marrying his then pregnant fiancée by telephone.

The remaining number under the numeric annual quota for H-1B cap for the fiscal year 2010 has now been used up, as USCIS announced that it has received sufficient number of H-1B petitions filed as of yesterday, December 21, 2009 under the fiscal year 2010 quota.

Last night, US Representative Luis Gutierrez (Democratic from Illinois) introduced a bill to the legislature and this long awaited bill for a comprehensive immigration reform or the latest edition of the previously lost “Dream Act” is now in the official process upon submission to the Congress!