Immigration Agency in Contempt for Seasonal Visa Denials (1)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services violated a January 2018 court order when it denied seasonal guestworker visas to construction contractors in Guam for the same reasons the court found invalid in the first place.

The decision is one of the first to chastise the agency’s decision-making when it comes to employment-based visas, and thus could have a broader impact beyond this specific case.

The lawsuit was filed during the Obama administration, but immigration attorneys and their employer clients have complained that the Trump administration has dramatically shifted its approach to legal immigration without going through the proper regulatory process or ...