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Author: Zachary Slapsys

Where legislation fails, there is always policy.  Or at least that’s the Obama administration’s latest approach.  On August 18, 2011, the Obama Administration announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) will work together on a new initiative to focus their resources on the enforcement of “high priority” immigration cases, while clearing “low priority” cases from the administrative docket.   In the past few days, we've received many calls asking about this policy.  We'll try to provide some insight: -Does the policy apply to me? Unfortunately, like so much else in immigration law, the answer is not straight