| 5/15/2013 |
| Alice Yardum-Hunter has released Volume 8, Number 1 of her newsletter, Immigration Status. Read it here... |
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| 4/17/2013 |
The U.S. Senate's so-called "Gang of 8," including 4 Democrats and 4 Republicans, have formally filed their bill for comprehensive immigration reform.
Some of the major points of the bill include:
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| 4/5/2013 |
| On April 5,2013, USCIS announced that for the fiscal year 2014 (starting October 1, 2013), it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000, plus 20,000 cap-exempt, advance degree petitions. More than 20,000 ... |
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Alice M. Yardum-Hunter, Certified Specialist since inception of the Immigration and Nationality program in 1989, and Former Commissioner, Board of Legal Specialization, Immigration and Nationality Law, California State Bar from 1991 - 1994, has practiced immigration and nationality law for more than 30 years. Alice was the 2011-2012 Chair of the L.A. County Bar Association, Immigration Section and also served in all officer positions. She's been on the executive committee for more than six years. She's served also as the organization's Liaison with the Port of Los Angeles, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services California Service Center, and U.S. Department of Labor.
She represents employers and aliens in employment based nonimmigrant and immigrant cases, with a focus on those who are extraordinary or in the U.S. national interest, specialty occupation, professional and skilled workers, family based immigration, citizenship by descent, and complex naturalization and removal matters including for criminal aliens. Her grandfather was an extraordinary immigrant inventor of 20 machines in the food manufacturing industry having invented, for example, the sugar cone for ice cream.
Ms. Hunter has been designated as a “Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters every year since inception from 2004 to 2012 and served on its Blue Ribbon Panel in 2012. She is rated by Martindale-Hubbell BV Distinguished which is considered "an excellent rating". These widely respected marks of achievement differentiate Ms. Yardum-Hunter from her competition. In 2010 she was additionally awarded as a “Top Attorney” by Pasadena Magazine. In 2007, she was nominated as among the top 25 lawyers practicing among 9,000 in the San Fernando Valley.
She has served on the Distance Learning Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, for which she has been a speaker and editor of two books including Practice before the Department of Labor and California Chapters Conference Handbook. She has been a member of AILA since 1984. Ms. Yardum-Hunter also wrote a chapter in ilw.com’s 2009 Consular Post Handbook. She has delivered talks for ilw.com, the American Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Assn., various county and ethnic bar associations, as well as several universities, business and human resources groups.
Ms. Yardum-Hunter has served as an expert witness in personal injury litigation concerning the value of lost wages of an alien plaintiff and in divorce proceedings on the value of an alien’s future earnings relative to the issue of spousal support.
In addition to her own practice, earlier in her career she began as an Intern for the World Health Organization’s legal department in Geneva, Switzerland and for five years was Of Counsel with Mark A. Ivener, a Law Corporation where she focused on labor certification matters which are required for the bulk of employer sponsored immigrant cases.
Correspondence between Ms. Yardum-Hunter and William Ho-Gonzalez, General Counsel of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, provided the “gold standard” of permissible inquiry about any job applicant’s immigration status nationally and was published in 70 Interpreter Releases, October 4, 1993. Also published by the American Immigration Lawyers Assn. was an unpublished decision of the Administrative Appeals Office, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service 1990 decision holding that the field of Purchasing Management is a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes.
She studied law at the Institute on Comparative and International Law which is associated with the Sorbonne in Paris, the University of Salzburg, Austria and the University of San Diego School of Law. Also, she is a recipient of a grant from the Dana Foundation for her post-J.D. LLM studies in International Law. Ms. Yardum-Hunter received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hofstra University’s New College. She is licensed to practice in the State of California, the U.S. Central and Southern Districts Courts and the Supreme Court of the United States.
This website provides general information regarding immigration options to the U.S. It does not substitute for legal advice and does not form an attorney client relationship. For further information or to schedule an appointment call 818 609 1953 or fill out an initial consultation request on our homepage at: http://yardum-hunter.com/Main/Consultation.asp. Thank you for visiting our website.
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