Employers in California may benefit from understanding more about some of the major issues human resource departments deal with when transferring employees from overseas. Anyone interested in hiring employees from another country needs to ensure that human resources...
There are many people in California who have family members living in other parts of the world. A person who has U.S. citizenship through birth or naturalization may petition for their non-citizen siblings to live permanently in the United States. To petition for a...
Technology companies in California may be able to use O-1 visas to recruit foreign-born employees with new ideas and inventions. Historically, foreign nationals living in the United States have instigated a lot of innovation in the tech industry. If an employer is...
California readers may have heard about Donald Trump's call to end "birthright citizenship" in the United States. However, the important legal case that made birthright citizenship the law of the land nearly 120 years ago may make the Republican presidential...
Children in California who have at least one U.S. citizen or naturalized parent are automatically considered U.S. citizens. A person who was under the age of 18 when one of their parents naturalized does not need to apply for naturalization. To prove U.S. citizenship,...
California employers who hire foreign workers and their employees may wonder how a recent United States Citizenship and Immigration Services decision might affect those workers. According to the USCIS, if employers transfer an employee on an H-1B visa to a new...
California readers may be interested to learn that the Obama administration has asked a Texas judge to drop a contempt hearing over work permits mistakenly issued in violation of a court order halting President Barack Obama's controversial immigration initiative. The...
A recent court decision underscored the fact that all workers in California are protected under the Fair Labor Standards Act regardless of their immigration status. A New York federal court ruled that immigration-related documents are not discoverable in wage and hour...
There are likely some California residents who are interested in the status of refuges who recently entered the U.S. seeking asylum. As of July 14, there were more than 2,170 of these immigrant refuges now possessing asylum claims that are valid according to officials...
California residents may not know that immigration laws sometimes treat men and women differently. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 is one such law, and one of its key provisions was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court on July 8. The...
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