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我行刚刚获知,移民局在4月2日一天当中就收到15万件H-1B申请。实在令人不可思议。我行将发出公开呼吁,要求移民局首先检查一下4月2日收到的申请当中,LCA有效日期是否是从2007年10月1日开始的,如果不是,建议移民局将这些申请剔除,以便将机会让位给那些完全按照要求呈递的申请。

我行办理的2008年度H-1B申请,4月2日通过UPS overnight service全部寄出,4月3日上午10:45am之前全部寄到移民局相关地址。4月1日是星期天,邮局和快递公司不收件,所有申请最早只能在4月2日寄出。如果采用当天寄出、当天收到的方式,费用少则900多美元,多则1,800多美元,客户们认为不值得,因此我行采纳的一律是UPS保证第二天早晨送达的快递方式。有人问,既然移民局4月2日起开始收件,为什么不设法在4月2日就让移民局收到申请呢?如果那样,只有三种可能:一、4月2日当天寄出、当天收到,但没有多少人愿意支付天文数字般的快递费;二、发件人或其律师与移民局加州服务中心或佛蒙特服务中心在同一个城市,或距离不远,4月2日当天可以送达(就佛蒙特服务中心而言,大多数发件人或其律师都不在近距离之内);三、3月31日(星期六)便将文件寄出。问题是,3月31日不可能得到有效期为2007年10月1 日至2010年9月30日的劳工条件申请(LCA)。最早可以得到有效LCA的时间,是4月1日凌晨零点(我行律师便是在4月1日凌晨零点开始使用多台电脑终端为客户申请LCA的)。按理说,移民局不应该受理LCA日期为2007年9月30日至2010年9月29日的H-1B申请,但移民官员具有自由裁量权,什么样的决定都是有可能的。不过,我们不建议铤而走险。我行处理的申请当中,有一当事人希望我们3月31日周六当天将申请寄出,我们那天也确实试着为其申请到了编号为I-07090-3342317_64972561、有效期为2007年9月30日至2010年9月29日的LCA,但我们担心,万一移民局不接受根据这一LCA递交的H-1B申请,重新递件很可能来不及取得配额。因此,我们后来还是坚持没有在3月31日递件,而是到4月1日凌晨重新申请了一个有效的LCA,并于4月2日将该当事人的H-1B申请连同他人的H-1B申请寄出。能否得到H-1B配额,就要看各位客户的运气了。

我行拟从2007年4月起,设立申教授律师行“法律翻译部”(SHENLAW Legal Translation Division),将由资深司法翻译专家、原香港廉政公署官员、英国伦敦大学学士、李斯特大学硕士陈芝媛律师挂帅。

4月2日起,H-1B等工作签证申请起用I-129新表格

美国移民局关于2008财政年度H-1B申请的注意事项。

移民局通知: H-1B申请4月2日起开始收件。

近日喜事连连,除了我行陆续收到各类批准书之外,申律师的女儿又被麻省理工学院(MIT)和耶鲁大学(Yale University)录取。欣喜之中,我行决定在H-1B申请律师费方面惠及美国《侨报》读者。优惠券请见《侨报》。

我行非常高兴地通知各界:我行的另一位“元老”级律师-胡彦平律师,在申建明律师的盛情邀请下,已经从日本回到了纽约,2007年4月1日起,正式重新加盟我行。欢迎胡律师回归!

2007年2月16日午,我行部分新老员工,在邻近的"东丽宫酒楼”欢聚一堂,庆贺新春。

在刚刚过去的2006年里,我行出现了专业人士I-140移民申请的首起失败记录。我行在H-1B(除一个撤回的申请以外)、L-1工作签证等领域,继续保持不败记录。

ÐÂÄê×£¸£:圣诞快乐、更贺新喜!我行最近陆续收到诸多客户和朋友的节日贺卡、贺词,对此,我们非常感谢。我们虽然没有时间一一寄送或回赠贺卡、贺词,但我们衷心地祝愿所有客户和亲朋好

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SHENLAW Press Release

November 17, 2005

“Major Triumph in Jing Kelly's Appeals”

SHENLAW is very proud to announce that, after a long-time appellate battle with Jing Kelly's opponents over both substantive issues on child custody and procedural matters, a big victory has finally fell upon the loving mother: On November 17, 2005, the Appellate Division for the 1 st Department unanimously REVERSED the NYC Family Court's orders that granted permanent custody of Jing's son to his paternal aunt and otherwise denied Jing's association with her son.

On October 4, 2004, at the request of Jing Kelly, Jianming Shen, Esq., of our firm substituted her prior counsel and appeared as attorney of record on her consolidated appeals. Mr. Shen prepared a five-volume set of appendices and authored and submitted the most challenging and most critical instrument for any appeal – the Appeal Brief . The appeal brief and any responding brief to it form the major basis upon which an appellate court renders its decision and opinion. In September 2005, Mr. Shen was joined by Mary Rothwell Davis, Esq., of the Sanctuary for Families' Center for Battered Women's Legal Services , as co-counsel, who made the oral arguments on October 14, 2005 on behalf of Jing.

In a unanimous decision by a 5-judge panel, the Appellate Division ordered:

[T]he order of the Family Court, New York County (Sara P. Schechter, J.), entered on or about March 20, 2003, which, following a determination that [Jing Kelly] neglected the child, directed the release of the child to the custody of [the paternal] aunt, and order, same court and Judge, also entered on or about March 20, 2003, which … awarded [the aunt] custody of the child, and order, same court and Judge, entered on or about August 6, 2004, which denied the mother's application seeking vacatur of the order of custody, should be reversed, on the law, … and vacated, and the matters remitted to Family Court for an immediate hearing on visitation for the mother and an expedited new dispositional and custody hearing.… The order, same court and Justice, entered on or about March 20, 2003, … which directed that the mother have no contact with the aunt, should be reversed, on the law … and vacated.

The Court's opinion, written by Justice Betty Weinberg Ellerin, and concurred by Justices Joseph P. Sullivan, Milton L. Williams, Luis A. Gonzalez, and James M. McGuire, adopts the major arguments and statements of law advanced in our Appeal Brief. For example, the opinion states that the order granting permanent custody to the aunt must be reversed because it was made absent a full evidentiary hearing and a finding of extraordinary circumstances. All the cases (precedents) cited by the Court are among those that are cited in our Brief.

Our attorneys at SHENLAW do not specialize in family law. As a result, we normally do not take divorce and child custody cases. Jing Kelly's appeal case, however, makes one of the few exceptions. Her case is so complicated that few law firms possess the will and ability to prepare a persuasive and convincing appeal brief. And her story is so compelling that there must be some real legal assistance to this family. The job has to do more with litigation and appellate skills and research, writing and analytical techniques than with knowledge of family law matters. We knew what it would mean to do pro bono work on this enormous case - loss of a huge amount of time that could be used on gainful cases. We were asked to take full charge over the appeal case in October 2004, as Jing Kelly and her parents had no other, better alternatives.

Upon the successful completion of the appeal process, our firm's involvement in the Kelly matter has come to an end. We wish the very best of luck to Jing and her family law counsel in the upcoming rehearings.

For a bilingual version of this Press Release, click here.

For the full text of the decision of the Appellate Division, click here.