USCIS announced that now the automatic extension for expiring EAD’s would be 540 days…this means when a holder of an EAD files a timely application for extension, the RECEIPT will include an extension for 18 months, or one and a half year.
Hallelujah, again!
WARNING: DO NOT SELL YOUR PICTURE
Foreign students are not permitted to work in the U.S. (with some exceptions). But what is “work”?
Many foreign students are, as well, exceptional ATHLETES in various fields. Like many American athletes, they get offers from American companies, commercial businesses and non-commercial entities, to permit the use of their NAMES, IMAGES or LIKENESS on the companies’ products or messages, for a FEE - sometimes very big fees. This is called ENDORSEMENTS.
Why is this not available for foreign students, holders of F-1 (or other special) visas?
Because the Immigration Service considers this transaction “work”, illegal work, a violation of the terms of the student visa.
So, dear Foreign Student, don’t sell your picture. You may lose your visa.
HABEAS PETITION SEEKS RIGHT TO LIBERTY
FOR ZOO ELEPHANTS
This is a direct quotation from the Daily Journal, the legal newspaper of Southern California:
Do “nonhuman animal”
have the fundamental right
of liberty as protected by
habeas corpus? Multiple
courts have said no, but an
animal rights organization
is trying again with a petition
against the Fresno Chaffee
Zoo.
This HABEAS CORPUS petition seeks to free three ELEPHANTS from the zoo.
The 3 elephants have names: Amahle, Nolmazi and Vurmuri. “Upon recognition of the elephants’ rights [for bodily liberty]” they should be discharged from the Fresno Zoo and placed in an appropriate sanctuary.
Why not? We all like elephants.
P.S. The real questions have not been asked: These 3 “nonhuman animals”: Amahle, Nolmazi and Vurmuri - how did they enter the U.S.? With visas? Or did they sneak in across the border? Have they overstayed? What is their relationship to each other? Have they been employed illegally? What about Political Asylum? Who shall provide an Affidavit of Support for an elephant? If we permit one elephant to stay – how many others would follow?