US District Court Judge declare a mistrial after jurors told him that deliberations had turned hostile and that they were unable to reach unanimous verdicts on any of the counts Ms. Romero was charged with.

Arizona State University’s News21 has an excellent series of stories on immigration.

The Immigration Policy Center has published a study showing that immigrants contribute significantly to the economy in every state of the union.

The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy (FSBPT) has suspended the NPTE exam for graduates of physical therapy programs in Egypt, India, Pakistan and the Philippines. Testing is expected to resume in late 2011, when the FSBPT finishes developing and releases a new version of the exam, the NPTE-YRLY.

The suspension applies to both the PT and PTA versions of the NPTE.

Danijela Krstic, who is a US Citizen and was crowned Miss Oregon in 2008, might have a need for an immigration attorney.

The US Department of State is increasing its fees effective July 13^th

The US Department of Labor has posted its PERM processing times on line at http://icert.doleta.gov under the “PERM Processing Times” tab beneath the login section.

The “Final Reviews” processing times are for cases that were not audited. The “Audits” processing times are for cases that were audited.

Nina Bernstein of the New York Times has a story detailing how Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is boarding trains and buses that do not cross the border, looking for people to arrest.

USCIS is reporting that as of August 20^th, it has received 33,900 applications for the 65,000 H-1B visa cap, and 12,600 applications for the 20,000 H-1B visa Master’s degree cap.

The US Department of State has released the immigrant visa priority dates to be used by itself and USCIS for green card cases during September 2010.

Just hours before it was to go into effect, a US Federal Judge has issued an injunction blocking key portions of the anti-immigrant Arizona law.

Today, the Obama Administration, through Attorney General Eric Holder, filed suit in Federal Court in Arizona seeking to stop Arizona’s anti-immigrant law.

President Obama has delivered a speech calling for comprehensive immigration reform.

In 2000, Congress enacted the American Competitiveness in the 21^st Century Act (AC21) in which in permitted applicants for adjustment of status to change employers after their applications for adjustment of status had been pending for 180 days, provided they continued working in the same or similar occupational classification. The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) has now released a decision that, as immigration lawyers, we believe makes reliance on AC21 by some perilous.

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