Jason Susser

In the second part of my summary of AILA’s Worksite Enforcement Conference in Utah, I will be discussing the comments of Alberto Ruisanchez, Deputy Special Counsel of the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. It is always enlightening when government speakers talk to immigration lawyers and answer…

Our firm has a spin off legal tech venture called Visalaw.ai where we are building artificial intelligence-based applications designed to automate a number of complex immigration law processes. Key Team Members: Greg Siskind, Josh Waddell and Jason Susser Siskind Susser is an immigration law firm based in Memphis that has been using Neota Logic’s AI-based expert…

[This popular feature of my blog has been on a long hiatus as I’ve gotten sidetracked with other writing projects. However, I’m pleased that my daughter Eden Siskind, who recently finished her master’s degree work in refugee studies at the London School of Economics, will be contributing to the Immigrant of the Day postings. Today…

Dear Readers: It’s been a tough last few weeks for immigration. The shooting of more than 20 Hispanic people in El Paso shocked the country. That was followed by a series of worksite raids in Mississippi that left many children separated from their parents. And then a few days later, the Trump Administration released a…

Dear Readers: If there is a theme to point to in immigration law over the last two and a half years, it’s that despite a relentless effort on the part of the Trump Administration to drive out undocumented immigrants and drastically cut legal immigration channels, the pushback has been even harder. From 2017 to early…

Tomorrow, US immigration is beginning to accept applications for a specific type of visas called “E-2” from Israeli citizens. E-2s are based on reciprocal treaties. In anticipation of the new program, I’ve launched a new site (www.e2israel.com) and created an app to help determine eligibility for the visa. The E-2 visa is one of the most…

Openers Dear Readers: When I used to tell people I was an immigration lawyer, I used to get responses like “I had a friend who went through that process and it was a pain” or “that must be really interesting work” or “it must be nice getting to help people.” Today it’s typically some kind…

Neota Logic, creators of the world’s leading platform to capture and automate expertise, announced today that leading immigration law firm, Siskind Susser, releases the beta version of their H-1B public access file generator application, built on Neota Logic. Through their no-code platform and commitment to client engagement, Neota liberates clients to quickly and efficiently build,…

Dear Readers: Since the election of President Trump, we have known that the Administration was hostile to one of President Obama’s signature policy achievements – the introduction of work authorization for H-4 spouses of backlogged green card applicants. After two years, the Administration sent a proposed rule rescinding the H-4 work card to the Office…