William C. Menard practices exclusively in immigration law and deportation defense.
William has represented both individual and corporate clients in all facets of immigration law. William has appeared on behalf of clients in deportation proceedings before immigration courts throughout the country, including in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. William has represented numerous clients before both the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services and Board of Immigration Appeals, and conducted oral arguments before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. William has completed and advised on a host of permanent residence visas, including green cards for family members of United States Citizens (both consular processing applications and adjustments of status within the United States), and EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, and EB-5 visas for business managers, executives, other professionals, and investors (including PERM labor certifications, when needed), as well as a wide range of tempo
Updated: Dec 31, 2020 9:05 AM
Voter Registration Ends Jan. 15th in Washington County
Garrett Giles Washington County Election Board Secretary Yvonne House said Friday, Jan. 15th, 2021, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote on Tuesday, Feb. 9th. Eligible voters will be able to vote in the Caney Valley Special School or Collinsville Board of Education Primary. House said that persons who are United States Citizens, residents of Oklahoma and at least 18 years of age, may apply to become registered voters. Persons who are not registered to vote or who are registered but need to change their name or address may do so by filling out and mailing an Oklahoma Voter Registration Application form in time for it to be postmarked no later than midnight, Friday, Jan. 15th, 2021. Application forms are available at the County Election Board office located at 420 S. Johnstone Avenue, Room 101, and all post offices, public libraries, tag agencies
AG Provisions in the Latest COVID Bill Passed By Congress
Last weekend the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate passed another COVID aid package. Apparently it was attached to a spending bill that would keep the U.S. Federal Government operating for another year. The combined bill was over 5,000 pages which meant no Senator or House member could read let alone understand all the spending that was in the massive bill. Then President Trump threatened to veto the bill because he wanted U.S.citizens to receive $2,000 instead of $600.
So, at some point there will have to be an agreement to keep the Federal Government funded and operating. I think it is quite likely that there will be an agreement on another COVID aid bill too. Therefore I was interested in what benefits or direct payments were in the COVID Bill that would benefit farmers. AG Analyst Kent Thiesse wrote an article on what was in the COVID bill when it appeared President Trump was going to sign it. I also found more de
CATO Shows Joe Biden How to Flood the Labor Market for Wall Street
18 Dec 2020
Joe Biden’s deputies can bypass Congress and use their bureaucratic powers to open the U.S. economy to millions of foreign graduates, blue-collar workers, and chain-migration families, says a legal guidebook posted by the Cato Institute.
“The new administration should go far beyond simply rescinding [President Donald] Trump’s changes and adopt reforms that make legal immigration easier … this compilation fills a gap in the administration’s regulatory agenda,” said an op-ed in TheHill.com by David Bier, a Cato employee.
The guidebook reflects the political shift of big business from the increasingly populist GOP towards the increasingly progressive Democratic Party. The new alliance promises to spike Wall Street with a wave of government-delivered consumers and workers, albeit with minimum wages set by the Democrats.