As Abdi Iftin watched American action movies that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in his war-torn hometown of Mogadishu, Somalia, he dreamed of escaping to the United States and beginning a new life away from the violence and bloodshed that surrounded him. Inspired by...
When Somali refugees began settling in Lewistown, Maine, during the early 2000s, the town's native born, mostly white denizens were apprehensive about their new neighbors. In October of 2002, the town's mayor penned an open letter to Lewistown's growing Somali community, expressing support for the...
U.S. immigration law is complex and, even without the passage of new laws, policy shifts and different interpretations call for new strategies and creative solutions. The lawyers we have at the Murthy Law Firm are all knowledgeable and experienced in matters of U.S. immigration law....
It didn't take long for the Trump Administration's policy of separating children from their undocumented immigrant parents to become international news. The condemnations from nearly all fronts of the political spectrum did something that has been virtually unheard of from this Administration - it resulted...
Last week, attorneys from all over the nation gathered at the 2018 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) conference in San Francisco, California, and several attorneys from the Murthy Law Firm were among them. Several Attorneys from the firm were in attendance. Firm founder and president...
Earlier this month, the world lost culinary extraordinaire and world traveler Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain had a unique ability to use cuisines from around the globe as a means to bridge the gaps between cultures.Still, it is not just the gastronomes and wanderlusts of the world...
In the United States, yoga has often been associated with the New Age movement. No doubt spurred on by celebrities like The Beatles becoming enamored with certain Eastern practices, yoga is perceived to have taken a foothold in America, especially among certain subcultures, like the...
Murthy Law Firm attorney, Joel Yanovich, recently served on panel designed to educate H1B workers on the employment-based, fifth preference (EB5) immigrant investor visa program. The program mainly catered to Indian nationals who were seeking further details on how the EB5 program could be used...
Murthy Law Firm Member and Assistant Managing Attorney, Anna Stepanova, was recently interviewed by Bloomberg Law regarding the abrupt change in position by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding off-site placement of STEM OPT workers.First, a little background on the legal issue discussed....
The leading organization for lawyers in the United States is the American Bar Association (ABA), which has a membership of more than 900,000 attorneys. The ABA holds periodic mentoring and educational sessions to train lawyers across the U.S. Its Business Employment Section meeting took place...
