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Stewart Rabinowitz, of the Dallas-based law firm Rabinowitz & Rabinowitz, offers informed commentary about the estimates of the 2008 U.S. legal permanent resident population.



The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released information regarding the legal permanent resident (LPR) population living in the United States as of January 1, 2008, and has estimated that 12.6 million LPRs lived in the United States on that date. The LPR population includes persons granted… Continue

Stewart Rabinowitz, of the Dallas-based law firm Rabinowitz and Rabinowitz, weighs in on the recent ICE decision to educate the public about modern day victims of human trafficking.



U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a media initiative to inform the public about the horrors and prevalence of human trafficking, which is modern-day slavery.



A public service announcement campaign, “Hidden in Plain Sight,” is intended to draw the American public’s… Continue

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) recently clarified that a foreign national’s receipt of certain public benefits does not necessarily make that foreign national ineligible to become a lawful permanent resident.



The bar to residency in the U.S. based upon the foreign national being a public charge has been part of U.S. immigration law for more than 100 years. An individual who is likely to become a public charge is inadmissible to the United States and… Continue

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services removes HIV as a disease of public health significance affecting foreign nationals seeking admission to the United States.



The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has removed Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection from its definition of communicable disease of public health significance. Prior to this final rule, aliens with HIV infection were considered to have a… Continue