November 25, 2024
The District of Columbia Circuit has denied a petition to reconsider its decision upholding an Obama-era program allowing some spouses of highly skilled foreign workers to obtain work permits.
November 05, 2024
The government urged the DC Circuit to deny a full panel hearing to a group of ex-information technology workers challenging a visa work rule, saying the workers hadn't shown that the rule exceeds the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's authority.
September 13, 2024
An organization of former IT workers who say they are being displaced by temporary visa holders petitioned the D.C. Circuit to take a second look at their case against an Obama-era program that authorizes some spouses of highly skilled foreign workers to get work permits.
August 02, 2024
The D.C. Circuit on Friday upheld an Obama-era program authorizing some spouses of highly skilled foreign workers to get work permits, rejecting a challenge from an organization of former IT workers who say they are being displaced by temporary visa holders.
July 03, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that courts don't have to defer to federal agencies' interpretations of ambiguous statutes doesn't pertain to a lawsuit challenging an Obama-era program allowing work permits for spouses of highly skilled foreign workers, a nonprofit group intervening in the case told the D.C. Circuit.
July 02, 2024
Ex-information technology workers told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning decades-old precedent instructing judges about when they can defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law buoys their challenge to an Obama-era program allowing work permits for some spouses of highly skilled foreign workers.
February 09, 2024
Two immigration advocacy groups urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold an Obama-era program offering work permits to the spouses of highly skilled workers, calling the embattled program a lawful exercise of the executive branch's decades-old power to authorize noncitizens to work.
February 02, 2024
Countering an argument from ex-information technology workers that D.C. Circuit precedent dooms an Obama-era program allowing work permits for spouses of highly skilled foreign workers, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the court's precedent is squarely on its side.
January 04, 2024
An organization of ex-information technology workers has urged the D.C. Circuit to disregard recent precedent in weighing the group's challenge to an Obama-era program allowing work permits for some spouses of highly skilled foreign workers, saying it conflicts with earlier precedent.