Angelo Paparelli Published in New York Law Journal
“The Year-End Immigration Roundup for Employers”

An article co-authored  by Immigration partner Angelo Paparelli was published in the December 29 edition of New York Law Journal. In the article, Angelo and Ted Chiappari summarize the key events of 2011 in business immigration.

According to Angelo and Ted, some of last year’s major immigration developments included the exhaustion of the annual H-1B visa quota for specialty-occupation workers in November, sooner than any fiscal year since 2008; the omission of immigration provisions in new Free Trade Agreements; slow progress on immigration equality for same-sex partners; increased availability of prosecutorial discretion for low-level immigration violators; and unpredictability of I-9 enforcement.

“With virtually no immigration reform legislation coming out of Congress, most legal developments in the immigration arena in 2011 have been in other venues: the courts, the agencies and various state legislatures which—by default—have tried to fill the vacuum caused by federal failures to regulate immigration,” commented the authors.