Petitions

By:  LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. Beginning June 16, 2008, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will accept requests for Premium Processing Services for I-140 petitions (Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker).  The I-140 form is used to petition the USCIS for an immigrant visa based on employment.  The alien worker does not file this form.  Rather, the employer files the peti

If you remember, earlier this year Jan 14th, an online petition drive called “Save Windows XP” was launched, and within weeks after that Jan. 14 launch, more than 100,000 customers worldwide have signed up or here. Microsoft considered those “non-official complaints”, and Steve Ballmer offers hope for Windows XP, saying that Microsoft would consider extending the

This practice advisory examines how DHS invokes the fugitive disentitlement doctrine to deny FOIA requests and how courts apply the doctrine to dismiss petitions for review. The advisory provides arguments to challenge the doctrine in both contexts. Please click here

A Lobby group working on behalf of SMEs, has urged small business owners to sign a petition on the Downing Street website, to delay the implementation of the new sexual harassment laws, laid down by Parliament three weeks ago. The changes will come into force today. The group argue that SMEs need more time to ensure [...]

Aggressively litigious group has claimed to protect musicians in the past. Now believes musicians deserve less for “innovative” music distribution. The writers of the songs get royalty checks from ASCAP or BMI or SESAC. The perofrmers of the songs get royalties from their signed record label (ONLY) after the sale of each and every record [...]

Di Fi Must Answer To The Party She Claims To Be A Member Of She Gives Bushtard An Inch And Bushtard Takes A Mile Stop Enabling These D L C Dems Are The Reason Why Bushtard Gets All That He Wants Sign The Petition Write To Di Fi, Tell Her To Stop Enabling Bush Has Allready Tortured And Blown Up Enough Frogs, She Can Say No Just As The Other Senators Do, There Is No Reason Otherwise Mukasey's Answers On Torture Were Torture To Hear, So Revolting Only To Have Di Fi Complain A Little And Then She Just Gives In Why Does Any Dem Give The Bushtard Anything He's Ruined So Much Sign on to support the resolution calling for the California Democratic Party to censure the Senator   Dianne Feinstein has failed us. Now it's time to hold her accountable.[ Please join the Courage Campaign and Democratic Clubs and grassroots organizations in calling for the California Democratic Party to officially censure Senator Feinstein for her shameful votes confirming Judge Michael Mukasey as

Aggressively litigious group has claimed to protect musicians in the past. Now believes musicians deserve less for “innovative” music distribution. No, see, the royalties go down, the “recording artists” get angry, the RIAA uses the momentum created by thousands of slightly less wealthy “recording artists” all bitching about how filesharing is taking the Lexus’ straight out of their kid’s mouths, the judges start judging in the RIAA’s favor, and then DER! I mean…BAM! Welcome to the Internet 2.0, now with restrictions. The Chinese will feel fortunate, compared to us. Then, in ten years, they’ll make fun of us like we’re Canada, like we make fun of Canada.

There were 2,185 petitions to foreclose filed in Massachusetts Land Court, up 66.5 percent from July 2006. In June 2007, the Warren Group reported that the number of foreclosure filings by lenders was 2,309. Auction announcement rose 130.2 percent to 1,128 in July 2007, the Warren Group reported. Banks and lending companies scheduled 1,367 auctions of foreclosed Massachusetts homes in June.

I have publicly supported three petitions on the Prime Minister's epetitions web site... and none of them have succeeded. That is, all of them have been rejected with a formal response - there is no record on the site of successful petitions, I note. (Can we draw some sort of conclusion from that, do you think?)The last petition - "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make the provision of professionally staffed libraries within all schools, both secondary and primary, statutory."- received a disappointingly low level of support (1,794 signatures) so it is unsurprising that it failed. However, the level of misleading verbiage in the response is disappointing (I assume that it doesn't actually demonstrate ignorance), and I reproduce the response in full below:The provision of a school library is not a statutory requirement and there are no current plans to alter this situation and change the legislation. It is the Government's policy to put as much money as possible dire

Why lookie here at how them troops are standing up to da Defeatocrats! They’ve issued an Appeal to Courage, they sure have. The Appeal for Courage, a petition signed by more than 2,700 U.S. service members since February 2007 asks Congress to fully support the mission and reject calls for retreat. According to the site, 60% of the signatories are serving, or have previously served, in Iraq. Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Troops Petition Congress To Stop Calls For Retreat Twenty-seven hundred troops so far. Out of what? 158,000 or so (currently serving). Wow. That is what? A percent? Staggering. Overwhelming. Gosh that Bush sure has a strong base. Note too that only about 60% of the signatories “are serving, or have previously served, in Iraq.” Sheesh! Nothing like making something of nothing.

Why lookie here at how them troops are standing up to da Defeatocrats! They’ve issued an Appeal to Courage, they sure have. The Appeal for Courage, a petition signed by more than 2,700 U.S. service members since February 2007 asks Congress to fully support the mission and reject calls for retreat. According to the site, 60% of the signatories are serving, or have previously served, in Iraq. Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Troops Petition Congress To Stop Calls For Retreat Twenty-seven hundred troops so far. Out of what? 158,000 or so (currently serving). Wow. That is what? A percent? Staggering. Overwhelming. Gosh that Bush sure has a strong base. Note too that only about 60% of the signatories “are serving, or have previously served, in Iraq.” Sheesh! Nothing like making something of nothing.

Paris Hilton made a blog post on her myspace regarding her jail sentence. She started a petition and is asking her fans to sign it. The petition is directed to California governer Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon Paris for her jail sentence. Have a look at the blog post yourself here. My friend Joshua started this petition, please help and sihn it. i LOVE YOU ALL!!!!! Pairs you need to learn how to spell before you start a petition.. it's spelled S-I-G-N you bird brain, not S-I-H-N. She seriously needs to be sentenced to an education, maybe then she'll understand that you're not allowed to drive with a suspended license.   Share It

A fiercely forward petition has been set up on the British government’s website, aiming to have Digital Rights Management banned in the UK by law. The petition has been created by Neil Holmes of DefectiveByDesign.org, the non-profit organisation that fights the use of DRM with swords (NB: swords not really used). The petition carries the following [...]

In the light of the current news about the Prime Minister sending out a nice letter to all of those who signed the petition against road charging - a letter which explained, presumably, how he valued their views, was impressed by the number of petitioners, BUT that he thought he was right and road charging was pretty likely to go ahead in the fullness of time...I also had a letter from the Prime Minister. Mine was in response to the petition I signed: to do with scrapping the idea if ID cards, and - guess what - he explained how he valued my views, was impressed by the number of petitioners, BUT that thought he was right and ID cards were pretty likely to go ahead in the fullness of time.I am left with the clear idea that the petitions website is nothing more than a means to collect email addresses of those who disagree with the government so that a targetted mailing can attempt to bring them onside (I hope that's the only reason for collecting them!). Is that practice cynical, or wha