South America: Immigration

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued new guidance extending Employment Authorization Documents for Temporary Protected Status recipients from El Salvador and Ukraine.

As previously reported on Greenberg Traurig’s Inside Business Immigration blog, the Department of State (DOS) established a temporary Paid Expedite pilot program allowing certain B-1/B-2 visa applicants to pay an additional fee for expedited visa interview scheduling.

Tener un Plan B no es huir de tu país. Es tener opciones. En este #MinutoLegal, te explicamos cómo obtener la Residencia Permanente en Panamá invirtiendo en bienes raíces, sin tener que mudarte full-time.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued new guidance extending Employment Authorization Documents for Temporary Protected Status recipients from El Salvador and Ukraine.

When multinational companies send executives, engineers, or specialists to Mexico for business activities, they often overlook critical compliance risks that extend far beyond visa requirements. Mexican authorities now scrutinize whether visitors' activities align with their immigration status and whether these trips create obligations across immigration, labor, tax, and social security domains.

ICE has dramatically expanded the definition of substantive I-9 violations, reclassifying dozens of previously correctable errors into penalty-triggering offenses with fines ranging from $288 to $2,861 per form. What were once routine omissions that could be fixed during an inspection now carry significant financial consequences, fundamentally reshaping employer compliance obligations and enforcement risk in the current regulatory climate.