Originally From
Immigration Practice - Fifteenth Edition
Appendix C
GOVERNMENT OFFICES, LAW AND POLICY
[The following is only a generalized listing of the offices for which a host of useful internet web site URLs are provided, under these headings.]
§ C-1. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
§ C-1(a). USCIS Customer Service
§ C-1(b). CBP Ports of Entry
§ C-1(c). USCIS Service Centers
§ C-1(d). USCIS District & Sub Offices
§ C-1(e). USCIS Overseas Offices
§ C-1(f). USCIS Asylum Offices
§ C-1(g). USCIS Administrative Appeals Office (AAO)
§ C-1(h). Immigration Customs & Enforcement (ICE)
§ C-1(i). Customs & Border Protection (CBP)
§ C-1(j). District Counsel (Immigration Court Matters)
§ C-1(k). Border Patrol Offices
§ C-1(l). Detention Facilities
§ C-1(m). Application Support Centers
§ C-1(n). Legal Sources
§ C-1(o). USCIS Office of Citizenship
§ C-1(p). USCIS Office of Public Engagement
§ C-1(q). USCIS Records, Including FOIA, E-Verify and SAVE
§ C-2. Department of State (DOS)
§ C-2(a). Consular Affairs
§ C-2(b). Passport Services
§ C-2(c). Revalidation Unit
§ C-2(d). Consulates
§ C-2(e). J-1 Program
§ C-2(f). J-1 Program Sponsors
§ C-2(g). J-1 Waivers
§ C-2(h). Visa Bulletin
§ C-2(i). Citizenship & Nationality
§ C-2(j). Legal Sources
§ C-3. Departments of Labor (DOL) – Federal and State
§ C-3(a). Permanent Labor Certification Form & Instructions (PERM)
§ C-3(b). State Workforce Agencies
§ C-3(c). Legal Sources
§ C-3(d). Wage Data and Job Classifications
§ C-3(e). Wage and Hour Division
§ C-3(f). Unemployment Statistics
§ C-4. Department of Justice (DOJ)
§ C-4(a). Executive Office of Immigration Review/Board of Immigration Appeals (EOIR/BIA)
§ C-4(b). Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL)
§ C-4(c). Office of Special Counsel (OSC)
§ C-4(d). Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF)
§ C-4(e). Federal Bureau of Investigation
§ C-4(f). Bureau of Prisons
§ C-5. Other Agencies
§ C-5(a). Department of Commerce
§ C-5(a)(1). Bureau of Industry & Service (BIS)
§ C-5(a)(2). International Trade Administration
§ C-5(a)(3). Census Bureau
§ C-5(b). Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
§ C-5(b)(1). Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
§ C-5(b)(2). DHHS Issues for Immigrants
§ C-5(c). Social Security Administration (SSA)
§ C-5(d). Department of Treasury
§ C-5(d)(1). Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
§ C-5(d)(2). Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
§ C-5(d)(3). Legal Sources
§ C-5(e). Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
§ C-5(f). White House and Office of Management and Budget
§ C-5(g). Selective Service System (SSS)
§ C-5(h). U.S. Courts
§ C-5(i). U.S. Sentencing Commission (Guidelines, etc.)
§ C-5(j). U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
§ C-5(k). Department of Education
§ C-5(l). Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
§ C-5(m). Department of Defense
§ C-6. Consulates and Country-Specific Information
§ C-7. States
Robert C. Divine is a Partner and leader of the Immigration Group of Baker Donelson, a law firm of over 550 lawyers and public policy advisors with offices in 13 cities from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans.
Mr. Divine has over 25 years of immigration law experience and served in Washington, D.C. from July 2004 until November 2006 as the first presidentially appointed Chief Counsel of United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), the world's largest immigration services agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). From July 2005 until July 2006, he served as Acting Director and then Acting Deputy Director of USCIS. In early 2004 he served as an expert for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom evaluating the impact on asylum claims from DHS' implementation of expedited removal procedures.
He has practiced immigration law since 1986 and in the last several years has chaired the American Immigration Lawyers Association's "Inter-Agency" Committee and its Liaison Committee to the U.S. Department of State. He has served as an expert witness in U.S. and foreign courts.
His practice includes all aspects of U.S. immigration law, representing large and small international and domestic employers, investors, developers, regional centers, family sponsors, and individual foreign nationals. He has also litigated significant business matters, including class action employment discrimination, contract, commercial, product liability, antitrust, ERISA benefits, business torts (including RICO, misrepresentation, Consumer Protection Act), and immigration-related criminal matters.