By Angelo A. Paparelli

Samuel Herbert, Her Majesty’s Home Secretary from 1931-32 (the British equivalent of the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security), could well have been speaking about two recent immigration-related events when he quipped that “bureaucracy” is “a difficulty for every solution.”

One is an October 30 Settlement Agreement between Indian It consulting giant, Infosys, and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.The other is an October 18 decision by U.S. federal district court judge, William J. Martini, involving the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and CAMO Technologies, a much smaller Indian IT consulting firm.  

Both reflect a victory, of sorts, for Indian IT firms over U.S. immigration bureaucrats and enforcement agents, and both shed light on the little-discussed crossroads where ambiguous immigration rules bisect the relations between corporate customers and their technology consultants.
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By: Erin Dougherty Foley

In case you haven’t heard, as of October 1, many federal agencies and programs will be forced to close, or partially close, barring some type of Congressional agreement on the federal budget. This would be the first such shutdown in 17 years.  And all of this excitement could happen tonight, at midnight.

So which agencies and…
Continue Reading Federal Government ShutDown?? – What Happens in the World of Employment Law?