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Whiteman Osterman & Hanna attorney Daniel Hubbell has joined other area lawyers, architects and designers in contributing their time and expertise to the Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial project, a passion project proposed by Latham-based orthodontist Dr. Michael Lozman.  Initial plans for the memorial went before the Niskayuna planning board on Monday, November 13.  Please click here for a recent Daily Gazette article about the project.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government, in partnership with the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs at the University at Albany, and the University at Buffalo School of Law, recently announced the formation of the new Center for Law and Policy Solutions (CLPS).  The CLPS will develop interdisciplinary solutions to pressing law and policy issues impacting New York State.  Scott Fein will serve as Senior Advisor to CLPS which will [...]

USCIS announced on October 23, 2017 that prior policy guidance previously issued by the agency directing officers to give deference to the findings of a previously approved petition is rescinded. Under updated policy guidance, USCIS is instructing its officers to apply the same level of scrutiny to both initial petitions and extension requests for certain nonimmigrant visa categories. The guidance applies to nearly all nonimmigrant classifications filed using Form I-129, [...]

Brendan Venter, an Associate with Whiteman Osterman & Hanna's Immigration Practice Group, recently authored an article titled Dream On: The Elimination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Looking Ahead for Former “Dreamers” that was published in The Student Affairs Compliance Report & Analysis, a newsletter geared towards college/university student affairs staff. Please click here to view the article, which begins on page 5 of the newsletter.  [...]

On October 17, Judge Derrick Watson, a Hawaii federal judge, granted a Temporary Restraining Order or TRO ) in the case Hawaii v. Trump, blocking the majority of the travel restrictions set forth in President Trump’s September 24, 2017 proclamation The TRO invalidated Trump's instruction only hours before it was set to be enforced on October 18, 2017. This decision is not the first time that the judiciary has invalidated Trump's immigration plans as Watson had also blocked the previous [...]