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H-1B Visa

The H-1B visa gives the chance to foreign experts to work in the US. It permits employers to hire qualified foreign specialists in the U.S. in specialty occupations on a temporary basis. The foreign expert has the chance to acquire a U.S. position dependent on his/her obtained abilities. To be qualified for the H-1B visa, the U.S. employer and potential representative are committed to sticking to the USCIS conditions and guidelines. The H-1B visa requirements endeavor to guarantee that the U.S. employer and foreign expert agree with the Department of Labor standards. A significant piece of this consistency is filing for a Labor Condition Application (LCA).

H-1B Visa Process

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The H-1B visa process includes two central points: the sponsorship by a U.S. employer and petitioning with the USCIS. The candidate should have a U.S. employer to begin the cycle. At the point when the potential H-1B holder discovers a U.S. employer who is qualified and able to document an H-1B visa on his/her benefit, the employer should get a labor certification application and present an H-1B request to the USCIS.

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The U.S. employer is needed to submit Form Estimated time of arrival 9035 (Labor Condition Application).

The employer probably got the approval of the Labor Condition Application prior to filing the I-129 form. After endorsement, the employer is committed to filing a Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker), filing expense, valuable documentation, and the affirmed Labor Accreditation Application.

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Missouri was my home, and I can’t go back because I’m trans.

Before the rest, I want to clarify: I do not get my hrt through a Missouri healthcare provider. This will not impact my medical transition, and I am so very lucky to not have to worry about that. Many, many transgender people living in Missouri do not have that luxury. However, I am hurt, and I am scared. I was not intending to move back to Missouri, because I am a lot happier where I am now. However, I’m very scared about the precedent that this sets. Missouri is the first state to pass legislation that restricts access to medical transition not only for minors, but for ADULTS. I would be very surprised if this was where their anti trans legislation stopped. Based on how they seem to be leading the charge against transgender rights in this regard, it seems very likely to me that within the next few years, trans peoples rights to public spaces in Missouri will be legally restricted. If this happens, I will not be able to visit about half of my family members.

The rest of this post is me coming to terms with that.

I flew to my home city, St. Louis Missouri for Pesach recently. I was so excited to spend the holiday with my family. Several members of my family were unable to get off work/school on the actual holiday, so I flew home on Easter weekend and we had our Seder on Easter. This is because in the USA, Easter and Christmas are federal holidays that get automatic off days, unlike Jewish holidays. The Seder happened at my grandma’s house and my entire extended family was invited, as is our family tradition. I had a lovely weekend with my family.

While I was visiting, I stayed in my grandparents house. Growing up I spent nearly every weekend there. My grandparents have always done their best to make me feel at home there. I have countless memories at that house of Shabbat with my grandma, playing games with my cousins and sister, climbing the big tree in the backyard, play dates with friends, doing all sorts of arts and crafts projects with my grandma, teaching myself to use a sewing machine on the living room floor, playing d&d in the basement, and big extended family gatherings for every Pesach, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur every year. It is one of the places that makes me feel the safest out of any place on earth. I would consider it my backup home. And as always, our Passover Seder was amazing.

This trip home coincided with my parents selling the house I lived in until I was 18. This has been in the works for a long time, so it did not come as a surprise to me. Even so, both my grandma and grandpa reassured me repeatedly throughout the weekend that I would always have a home at their house. That I could always come back, to visit or stay as long as I need. That this place would always be my home.

One of the things I did while I was staying there was make sure I had copies of all of the family records that my grandma had saved. Things like family trees, Ellis Island immigration records, death certificates, writings of long deceased relatives. I want to preserve as much of our family history as I can, because too much Jewish history has been destroyed by those who hate us. I already knew that my family has lived in the same city in Missouri practically since they immigrated, I think it’s something like 4 generations. Looking through these documents and reading things the previous generation of my family has written was fascinating and deeply moving to me. It cemented in my mind the fact that my family history is completely intertwined with the St. Louis Jewish community.

And of course, the synagogue I belonged to growing up is in Missouri. Where I spent the high holy days, where I was bat mitzvah’d, where I went to hebrew school every week. My Hebrew school teachers. My rabbis. I’ll be visiting it soon for my cousins Bat Mitzvah, and I’m hoping I might get a chance the day after to sit and talk with my rabbis. I feel like I need to say goodbye to them.

I can’t go back to any of these things. It has taken me a long time to write this post because this is so painful for me. I love my family so very dearly, and I have a big family. My cousins were like extra siblings to me growing up, I’m close with all of my second cousins and their partners and kids, my aunts and uncles, my great aunts and uncles, and my great grandparents when they were alive. I don’t go back to St Louis for the city, I go back for them. My grandparents have lived in St. Louis for their entire lives, and they aren’t going to move. Nor do I want them to have to, they’re so happy there. They have carved out a very comfortable and safe place for their family and friends. It’s just not a place I will be welcomed in for much longer, and that is out of our control. They will travel to visit me once in a while, but I know that me not being able to visit Missouri would drastically cut down on the time I can spend with them. And realistically, they are getting old. I don’t know how much longer cross country travel will be safe and feasible for them.

My family took a long time to get on board with my transition, largely because they were lied to by politicians and mental health “professionals” who were unqualified to treat transgender patients. I don’t want to spend too much time talking about that. To me what matters is that they unconditionally support me as a trans man now, and even though they were misinformed and said and did things that hurt me, they have always loved me. And they have made an incredible and effective effort to not only apologize for the harm they caused, but to change the way they treated me in order to express that love. My grandpa, previously the most old fashioned, socially conservative, and transphobic member of my family, will now call me to say things like “the other day this meshuggenah tried to tell me trans people are dangerous, I told him my grandson is transgender and to shut the fuck up. You shoulda seen the look on his face.” My grandma and mom both flew across the country with me to help me prepare for and recover from my top surgery. I could not have asked for better people to care for me post op.

Despite how supportive they are now, it’s only fairly recently that I’ve repaired my relationship with my family enough to enjoy spending long periods of time with them. It is still hard for me to talk to certain family members because I am trans. But the last few trips home have been the first times in a long time I have had a wonderful time with my family, which is something I missed and needed for so long.

I think that is going to be taken away again very soon. And it’s being pushed by the very same people who lied to my family and drove a wedge between us in the first place. This time it is out of our control.

To say I’m heartbroken would be an understatement. It’s hard for me to even conceptualize the concept that my ability to see my family is being slowly taken from me by the Christian zealots in our government. It feels like just now that I’ve been fully accepted and embraced, I’m being forced out again. And once again, it is under the guise of protecting people like me. They expect me to believe that this is for my own good. That all of the bullying and abuse and dysphoria I was forced to endure for my entire childhood was for my own good, because g-d forbid I be transgender and happy.

I had to move across the country to escape unsafe living conditions caused by white Anglo Saxon Christians, and now I’m uncertain of my ability to visit the family members I left behind. Ironically, this is a very Jewish experience. I imagine this is a much smaller version of the pain my ancestors felt when they immigrated to America and left their family behind in Russia and Poland. In a way, this experience connects me to my Jewish heritage in a profoundly painful way.

This was a long and rambly post. I’m just hurting a lot right now, and I needed to talk. Thank you to anyone who read this far.

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Republican Florida Rep. Brian Mast appeared to catch the State Department’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer off guard with a line of questioning about his race during a hearing Tuesday.

Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer in the history of the State Department, repeatedly answered “I do not know” when Mast asked her what race he is. Mast used his time during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee for Oversight and Accountability to question why the State Department examines race and ethnicity in hiring processes.

“Can you tell me, am I white?” Mast asked Abercrombie-Winstanley. The ambassador took a long pause before telling Mast she would have to ask Mast to tell her how he characterizes himself.

“That’s exactly right, I would have to tell you not just how I characterize myself but what I am,” Mast said. “But I’m asking, do you know if I’m white?”

“I do not know,” Abercrombie-Winstanley answered. She gave the same answer when Mast proceeded to ask whether he’s half-black, Latino, Asian or Pacific Islander or brown.

Mast, originally from Michigan, represents a district in south Florida just north of the Miami area. He’s half-Latino, with his maternal grandparents having immigrated to the United States from Mexico.

“It shouldn’t matter that I’m half-Mexican, it shouldn’t matter whether I’m able-bodied, or ambulatory or not ambulatory, that doesn’t have anything to do with what my background is,” Mast continued. Being an effective Foreign Service Officer “has nothing to do with how somebody looks,” he said.

Abercrombie-Winstanley, the daughter of a secretary and attorney with an undergraduate degree from George Washington University and a masters degree from Johns Hopkins, is a career diplomat. She previously served at State Department posts in Iraq, Indonesia, Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia before serving as Ambassador to Malta during the Obama administration. She will be departing her current post later this month.

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Rep.-elect George Santos made additional false claims over the years about his family history, work history and education in campaign appearances over the years, a review of statements made in two of his campaigns for Congress found.

CNN's KFile uncovered more falsehoods from Santos, including claims he was forced to leave a New York City private school when his family's real estate assets took a downturn and stating he represented Goldman Sachs at a top financial conference where he berated the company for investing in renewables.

CNN also reviewed more instances of Santos providing additional false history of his family's background. In one interview, Santos said his mother's family's historical Jewish name was "Zabrovsky," and later appeared to operate a GoFundMe campaign for a pet charity (which he falsely claimed was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) under that alias. Genealogists CNN previously spoke with found no evidence of Jewish or Ukrainian heritage in his family tree.

In another, he said his mother, whose family has lived in Brazil since the late 1800s, was a White immigrant from Belgium.

Santos' campaign did not respond to CNN's comment request.

Since reports first surfaced about his false claims, Santos has made efforts to downplay his fabrications as mere "embellishments." But the previously unreported claims from Santos illustrate a pattern of fabricating details about his life, often in service of presenting a more compelling or interesting personal narrative. The Nassau County district attorney's office said Wednesday that it is looking into Santos' fabrications, though it did not specify the falsehoods it would explore.

In interviews over the past few days, Santos admitted to lying about parts of his resume, including graduating from college, but he told the New York Post that the misrepresentation of his work history at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup was a "poor choice of words." There is no record he worked at the top financial institutions in the country, as he had previously claimed.

Santos also denied that he falsely called himself Jewish, claiming he "never claimed to be Jewish" but jokingly said he was "Jew-ish" to the New York Post. He also falsely claimed that his grandparents "survived the Holocaust" and fled Europe to escape Jewish persecution. But CNN found that Santos called himself an "American Jew" and "Latino Jew" on multiple occasions. The Republican Jewish Coalition disinvited Santos from appearing at any of its events because he "misrepresented his heritage."

Despite the scandals, the New York Republican, who flipped his Long Island seat, said he will take office in January — spurring calls to resign from Democrats.

Here are some of the outright falsehoods CNN found:

WENT TO FANCY PREP SCHOOL, BUT LEFT BECAUSE HIS FAMILY'S REAL ESTATE IMPLODED

In appearances, and in an old campaign biography, Santos claimed his parents sent him to Horace Mann, an elite private school in the Bronx.

"He began Horace Mann preparatory school in the Bronx, however, did not graduate from Horace Mann due to financial difficulties for his family," his biography read in 2019 for his first campaign for Congress that Santos lost. "He obtained a GED during his senior year."

Santos also made the same claim in an appearance on a YouTube show in 2020.

"They sent me to a good prep school, which was Horace Mann Prep in the Bronx. And, in my senior year of prep school, unfortunately my parents fell on hard times, which was something that would later become known as the depression of 2008. But we were hit a little earlier on with the overleveraging of real estate. And the market started to implode. Um, and the first thing to go was the prep school. You know, you, you can't afford a $2,500 tuition at that point, right? So anyway, um, I left school, uh, four months to graduation."

But the claim is false, according to the school.

"We've searched the records and there is no evidence that George Santos (or any alias) attended Horace Mann," Ed Adler, a spokesman for the school, told CNN.

CLAIMED HE CRITICIZED GOLDMAN SACHS AT PRIVATE EQUITY CONFERENCE AS AN EMPLOYEE

"Have you ever heard of a Goldman Sachs employee take the stage at the largest private equity conference in the world -- SALT, run by Anthony Scaramucci -- and berate their employer? Well, I did that," Santos said on a local podcast this summer. "And I did it in the fashion of renewable energy and global warming. This was the panel I was on. And they're all talking about solar, wind, and this was back, what, seven years ago now? And I said, you know what, this is a scam. It's taxpayer money that gets subsidized."

The claim is entirely fictional, according to both Goldman Sachs -- which has said Santos never worked there -- and Scaramucci, who runs the conference.

Scaramucci told CNN in a message there is not only no record of him appearing on a panel, but no record of him even attending the conference.

CLAIMED FAMILY'S JEWISH NAME WAS ZABROVSKY (AND FUNDRAISED UNDER IT)

In an appearance on a Fox News digital show in February, Santos said his maternal grandparents changed their Jewish last name from Zabrovsky -- a claim for which there is no evidence and records contradict.

"We don't carry the Ukrainian last name. For a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refugees or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names and paperwork were changed in the name of survival. So I don't carry the family last name that would've been Zabrovsky. I carry my mother's maiden name which is the Dutch side of the family."

Megan Smolenyak, an author and professional genealogist who helped research Santos' family tree at CNN's request, previously told CNN, "There's no sign of Jewish and/or Ukrainian heritage and no indication of name changes along the way."

Santos deleted his former private Facebook account last week, but CNN's KFile reviewed records indicating he used the alias of "Anthony Zabrovsky" for fundraising for a pet charity. The GoFundMe page under that alias no longer exists. CNN reached out to GoFundMe but did not receive a response.

SANTOS CLAIMED HIS MOM IMMIGRATED FROM BELGIUM

In one radio appearance from December 2020, Santos falsely claimed that his mother "fled socialism" in Europe and moved to the United States.

"My father fled socialism in Brazil. My mother fled socialism in Europe, and they came here and built a family. And today they can be proud to have a son who is a well accomplished businessman, who is now running for United States Congress. That's something that wasn't in the cards for my family," Santos said.

He also claimed in another interview from 2020 that he "grew up with a White Caucasian mother, an immigrant from Belgium."

But Santos' mother was born in Brazil, according to genealogical records.

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Introduction

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Immigration law governs who can enter a country, how long they can stay, and what rights and responsibilities they hold. The process involves various legal documents, interviews, and adherence to stringent requirements. A misstep in any part of the process can result in delays or even denials, making it crucial to seek professional legal guidance.

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SMART BOMB

The Completely Unnecessary News Analysis

By Christopher Smart

August 13, 2024

V.P. HOPEFUL TIM WALZ LIES ABOUT “WHITE GUY” TACOS

OK Wilson, this is beyond the pale. Kamala Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, says he eats “white guy” tacos. What? How racist can you get. Republicans and MAGA influencers aren't taking it. They get accused of being racist all the time since they regularly use racial dog whistles. Did you know Kamala is a DEI hire, bla, bla, bla. But that's nothing compared to Walz' “white guy taco” quip that “falsely plays to every stereotype of whiteness,” according to one MAGA influencer. “This isn’t cute,” said Fox News columnist David Marcus. “Walz is being used as a clown to mock white people. If Walz doesn’t like spicy food that’s fine, but it has nothing to do with being a white guy.” Yeah, he and the Dems are making white people out to be... well, white people who eat bland food. Outrageous, total bigotry. According to Walz, white guy tacos “are pretty much ground beef and cheese.” And he claims he doesn't even use taco sauce. Can you believe it, Wilson, no taco sauce. Well, he's a stinkin' liar, says MAGA mainstay Mike Cernovich, who did some sleuthing and found that Walz once made a taco recipe with spices including paprika and chili powder. Paprika and chili powder! How in the hell can you trust a guy who lies about tacos? White guy tacos, at that. Give us a break.

TOP TEN TAKEAWAYS FROM “PROJECT 2025”

It's no secret that a 900-page document created by former Trump administration officials at The Heritage Foundation, called “The 2025 Project,” is a blueprint for the next Trump regime. Here are the highlights:

10 –Future federal employees must wear red MAGA hats

9 – No public schools will go higher than 7th grade and no free lunches for poor kids

8 – Top secret documents in Mar-a-Lago bathrooms will be declassified

7 – LGBT Americans must get “QUEER” tattooed to their foreheads

6 – Abortion pills will become illegal Schedule II controlled substances

5 – Illegal immigrants will be forced to build a “big, wonderful” wall on the border

4 – Possession of pornography will be punishable by selective surgery

3 – China will be removed from all U.S. government maps

2 – FBI agents will become butlers and gardeners at the White House and Mar-A-Lago

1 – And Don Jr. will be next in line for the title of el presidente-for-life.

IS IT FAIR TO SENTENCE TRUMP BEFORE THE ELECTION?

Donald J. Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 18 in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. But is it fair to sentence a convicted felon right before an election? It could give voters a bad impression of Republican nominee. According to polling, some 97 percent of Trump supporters don't care about the convictions. After all, they were bogus charges brought by a bogus district attorney in a bogus court with a bogus judge. But if Judge Juan Merchan were to sentence Trump to jail time that could change things. Trump supporters might think, jeeze he's in the slammer with despicable badasses. That's not cool. Or what if the judge sentences Trump to community service where he has to wear an orange jumpsuit and pick up garbage along the L.I.E. (Long Island Expressway). There he'd be with one of those poking sticks and a big garbage bag walking along picking up refuse and swatting at flies. That could be worse than jail time as far as the election goes. It's just hard to un-see Trump in an orange jump suit waddling along the expressway with people honking and waving. They might even roll down their windows and yell, “Make America Great Again.” That's just cruel and unusual punishment.

Post script — Alright sports fans that's a wrap for another exciting week here at Smart Bomb where we keep track of what politicians eat so you don't have to. Wilson, did you know that Kamala Harris eats Doritos — nacho cheese-flavored Doritos at that. And you thought white guy tacos were outrageous. Sean Hannity and Elisabeth Hasselbeck of Fox News fame are truly perplexed. “That’s the commander-in-chief, potentially,” Hasselbeck warned, “that’s the emotional response of the leader of the free world — binge-eat a bag of Doritos?” No Wilson, we won't remind her of the former commander-in-chief throwing McDonald's cheeseburgers on the wall of the Oval Office. Makes you long for the good ol' days when Gerald Ford made his own toast every morning. Simpler times, indeed. Speaking of white guy tacos (clever segue), House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) will open an investigation into Tim Walz regarding his links to China. We are told this has nothing to do with white guy egg foo young or white guy chop suey. However, on various visits to China Walz reportedly imbibed in Kung Pao chicken and sweet & sour pork. “Americans deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relationship with Chinese food goes,” said Comer. After all, you are what you eat.

These are testy times for poor Donald Trump. He's going to get sentenced in the New York fraud case. There will soon be an evidentiary hearing in D.C. surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection debacle. If that weren't enough, he's slipping in the poles to a black woman. Wilson, you and guys in the band must have something to ease Donald's pain. Go for it:

Quicksand closing in around my eyes Quicksand forcing me to realize Nothing that I see Can get through this wall to me

This wall of quicksand closing in around my mind Quicksand and I'm losing track of time Sinking like a stone All the dreams that I have ever known Sinking into quicksand closing in around my heart Quicksand teaching me further poems From the things I feel All that it can steal Taken and concealed Not to be revealed About quicksand From the things I feel All that it can steal Taken and concealed Not to be revealed About quicksand Talking about quicksand

(Quicksand — The Youngbloods)

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On July 11, 1804, in one of the most famous duels in American history, Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shoots his long-time political antagonist Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, a leading Federalist and the chief architect of America’s political economy, died the following day.

Alexander Hamilton, born on the Caribbean island of Nevis, came to the American colonies in 1773 as a poor immigrant. (There is some controversy as to the year of his birth, but it was either 1755 or 1757.) In 1776, he joined the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and his relentless energy and remarkable intelligence brought him to the attention of General George Washington, who took him on as an aide. Ten years later, Hamilton served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and he led the fight to win ratification of the final document, which created the kind of strong, centralized government that he favored. In 1789, he was appointed the first secretary of the treasury by President Washington, and during the next six years he crafted a sophisticated monetary policy that saved the young U.S. government from collapse. With the emergence of political parties, Hamilton was regarded as a leader of the Federalists.

Aaron Burr, born into a prestigious New Jersey family in 1756, was also intellectually gifted, and he graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton) at the age of 17. He joined the Continental Army in 1775 and distinguished himself during the Patriot attack on Quebec. A masterful politician, he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1784 and later served as state attorney. In 1790, he defeated Alexander Hamilton’s father-in-law in a race for the U.S. Senate.

Hamilton came to detest Burr, whom he regarded as a dangerous opportunist, and he often spoke ill of him. When Burr joined Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican ticket (the forerunner of the Democratic Party) as vice president in the 1796 election, Hamilton launched a series of public attacks against Burr, stating, “I feel it is a religious duty to oppose his career.” John Adams won the presidency, and in 1797 Burr left the Senate and returned to the New York Assembly.

In the 1800 election, Jefferson and Burr became running mates again. Burr aided the Democratic-Republican ticket by publishing a confidential document that Hamilton had written criticizing his fellow Federalist President John Adams. This caused a rift in the Federalists and helped Jefferson and Burr win the election with 73 electoral votes each.

Under the electoral procedure then prevailing, president and vice president were not voted for separately; the candidate who received the most votes was elected president, and the second in line, vice president. The vote then went to the House of Representatives. What at first seemed but an electoral technicality—handing Jefferson victory over his running mate—developed into a major constitutional crisis when Federalists in the lame-duck Congress threw their support behind Burr. After a remarkable 35 tie votes, a small group of Federalists changed sides and voted in Jefferson’s favor. Alexander Hamilton, who had supported Jefferson as the lesser of two evils, was instrumental in breaking the deadlock.

Burr became vice president, but Jefferson grew apart from him, and he did not support Burr’s renomination to a second term in 1804. That year, a faction of New York Federalists, who had found their fortunes drastically diminished after the ascendance of Jefferson, sought to enlist the disgruntled Burr into their party and elect him governor. Hamilton campaigned against Burr with great fervor, and Burr lost the Federalist nomination and then, running as an independent for governor, the election. In the campaign, Burr’s character was savagely attacked by Hamilton and others, and after the election he resolved to restore his reputation by challenging Hamilton to a duel, or an “affair of honor,” as they were known.

Affairs of honor were commonplace in America at the time, and the complex rules governing them usually led to an honorable resolution before any actual firing of weapons. In fact, the outspoken Hamilton had been involved in several affairs of honor in his life, and he had resolved most of them peaceably. No such recourse was found with Burr, however, and on July 11, 1804, the enemies met at 7 a.m. at the dueling grounds near Weehawken, New Jersey. It was the same spot where Hamilton’s son had died defending his father’s honor in 1801.

There are conflicting accounts of what happened next. According to Hamilton’s “second”—his assistant and witness in the duel—Hamilton decided the duel was morally wrong and deliberately fired into the air. Burr’s second claimed that Hamilton fired at Burr and missed. What happened next is agreed upon: Burr shot Hamilton in the stomach, and the bullet lodged next to his spine. Hamilton was taken back to New York, and he died the next afternoon.

Few affairs of honor actually resulted in deaths, and the nation was outraged by the killing of a man as eminent as Alexander Hamilton. Charged with murder, Burr, still vice president, returned to Washington, D.C., where he finished his term immune from prosecution.

In 1805, Burr, thoroughly discredited, concocted a plot with James Wilkinson, commander of the U.S. Army, to seize the Louisiana Territory and establish an independent empire, which Burr, presumably, would lead. He contacted the British government and unsuccessfully pleaded for assistance in the scheme. Later, when border trouble with Spanish Mexico heated up, Burr and Wilkinson conspired to seize territory in Spanish America for the same purpose.

In the fall of 1806, Burr led a group of well-armed colonists toward New Orleans, prompting an immediate U.S. investigation. General Wilkinson, in an effort to save himself, turned against Burr and sent dispatches to Washington accusing Burr of treason. In February 1807, Burr was arrested in Louisiana for treason and sent to Virginia to be tried in a U.S. court. In September, he was acquitted on a technicality. Nevertheless, public opinion condemned him as a traitor, and he fled to Europe. He later returned to private life in New York, the murder charges against him forgotten. He died in 1836.

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Disaster Recovery Centers: Just-In-Time Training

*I am not an expert or an official source!*

November 1, 2022

Stafford Act and the Privacy Act

This was also covered in the Disaster Survivor Assistance Just-In-Time Training.

The Stafford Act bans duplication of benefits. FEMA shares information with partner organizations to prevent this. FEMA may provide information on registration records, inspections, and temporary housing eligibility to its partners. The Privacy Act requires organizations requesting information must provide statements about who the information is about, why the information is needed, and what information will be used for.

Power of attorney or written consent may be required to share information with an applicant’s friend/family member. FEMA now has a written consent form, FF104. If the applicant brings another person with them to apply, consent is implied; FEMA staff can share that information with the applicant’s interpreter, helper, etc, as long as the applicant is also there with them.

Give the applicant their information back if they write it down for you. There are not always shredders available. I recommend sticky notes.

Protected Areas

These include:

Disaster Recovery Centers

Shelters

Evacuation routes

Family reunification areas

Medical centers

Food distribution centers

Other humanitarian service providers

FEMA does not proactively share applicant information with law enforcement, immigration authorities, etc. Exceptions apply in extreme circumstances, such as suspected human trafficking.

Individual and Households Program (IHP)

I do not remember as much about this. Please take with a grain of salt:

Individual Housing Assistance (IHA)

If insurance does not cover repairs/ replacement, FEMA may provide money/housing. FEMA does not typically restore houses to pre-disaster conditions. (The justification I was provided is that you should have insurance to cover anything above your bare minimum needs.) The cap is about $40,000 maximum per household, though several things – such as direct housing – may be exempt from the cap.

Repairs: Brings house back to safe, sanitary, and functional condition. Note: repairs for accessibility items are not deducted from IHP Housing Assistance maximum. These include medical equipment, assistive and mobility devices, grab bars, and a navigable path from the home to the personal vehicle.

Temporary Housing Assistance: This is not deducted from IHP Housing Assistance maximum(?). Rental assistance provided in 1 to 3-month increments for up to 18 months. Those on rental assistance must be re-certified and demonstrate need to continue receiving assistance. Note: This timeline starts from when the disaster is first declared. If you apply two months after the declaration, you may only get up to 16 months of temporary housing. And if it takes FEMA an extra couple months to set up the housing? Then you’re down to a maximum of 14 months there.

Rental, lodging expense reimbursement (LER): Up to 1 week after the disaster. Can cover hotels, though the money may cap out before the week.

Direct housing is the last resort due to expense:

Multiple family lease and repair: for landlords.

Transportable temporary housing units (TTHUs): Mobile homes. Provided and maintained by FEMA.

Permanent housing construction (PHC): Usually limited to islands, territories, and other areas that are more difficult to access. FEMA is required to follow zoning and other local laws. It’s your house after. You get the keys. Note: your new house may not be as big or fancy as before. (For example, if a person owned a three-bedroom house but lived alone when it was destroyed, FEMA would most likely build a 1-bedroom house to replace it.)

Other Needs Assistance (ONA)

About $40,000 maximum, though applicants rarely receive the full amount. People may be eligible depending on their ability to get a loan from the Small Business Administration (SBA). It’s usually ideal if SBA determines them to be ineligible, since then FEMA should give them the money and they shouldn’t need to repay it.

Non-SBA dependent: Not dependent on income. Includes funeral, childcare, dental/medical, moving and storage, critical needs assistance, and cleaning and removal.

SBA-dependent: Income-dependent. Includes personal property, transportation, and group flood insurance policy.

I’m still somewhat unclear on the flood insurance stuff, but here’s what I gathered:

Flood insurance policy will be maintained by FEMA for 3 years. Survivor is responsible for maintaining it. If not maintained, they are unlikely to get assistance for future disasters.

FEMA will not cover uninsured houses in a flood zone.

Renters will not automatically get flood insurance. They should call FEMA (1-800-621-3361).

Some notes on Individual Housing Assistance (IHA) and Other Needs Assistance (ONA):

Personal Property Assistance is available for both renters and owners, but the cap is typically lower for renters.

Assistance can be provided for moving and storage, funerals, childcare, medical/dental care. This assistance must be disaster-related, but the relationship does not have to be direct. For example, a person who gets an injury cleaning up debris after the disaster occurred may still be eligible for medical assistance.

There is a cap on how much money FEMA will reimburse/supply. The caps for housing assistance (HA) and other needs assistance (ONA) are independent. Theoretically, someone could max out both caps to get $70k to $80k of reimbursements.

Not everyone is eligible for everything. Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis.

FEMA will not necessarily restore housing to pre-disaster conditions. This is left to insurance.

SBA no longer covers secondary homes.

Proving house ownership may be difficult, especially in Puerto Rico. Examples include: legal owner died but ownership not transferred to another occupant, or multiple co-owners (ex. several siblings sharing a house). Policies for determining ownership may change depending on disaster.

When there is a disaster, get documentation for everything: hotel rental receipts, doctor statements, insurance denials, etc. These can help prove that your expenses are disaster-related and improve the likelihood of FEMA reimbursing you for the cost.

Registration Intake Forms

This information has already been covered in the DSA JITT. A few more things to note:

Prevent conflicts of interest. Direct anyone you know to a coworker or other staff member for assistance.

Applicant must choose either Mr. or Ms. as the prefix; leaving it blank or choosing a gender-neutral option is not possible at this time.

The registration script must be followed verbatim in call centers. This is not necessarily the case in DRCs or out in the field. In-person interactions may be more conversational.

If someone’s application comes up as identity fail, they may not be able to access FEMA’s email-based login system to view their status. In this case, having them receive information via physical mail is more preferable than via email.

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Navigating Love's Path: Marriage Green Card Attorney in Long Island

Love knows no boundaries, and when two hearts from different corners of the world find each other, it's a beautiful thing. However, the complexities of immigration law can often pose challenges for couples seeking to build a life together in the United States. In Long Island, a dedicated marriage green card attorney can be your guiding light through this intricate process. In this blog, we will explore how a marriage green card attorney in Long Island can help you navigate the path of love, ensuring a smooth and successful journey towards building a future together.

Understanding the Marriage Green Card Process: The first step in embarking on a successful journey towards obtaining a marriage green card is gaining a comprehensive understanding of the process. With the assistance of a knowledgeable attorney in Long Island, you can navigate through the intricate requirements, paperwork, and deadlines involved. Discover the crucial steps and essential information you need to know as you begin this journey.

Expert Guidance and Personalized Assistance: A marriage green card attorney in Long Island is your advocate, providing expert guidance and personalized assistance tailored to your unique circumstances. They understand that every couple's situation is different and will work closely with you to develop a strategy that fits your specific needs. Learn how their knowledge and experience can help simplify the process and alleviate any potential stress.

Overcoming Challenges and Maximizing Success: Throughout the marriage green card process, various challenges may arise, such as gathering supporting documentation, proving the authenticity of your relationship, and attending interviews. A skilled attorney in Long Island will help you navigate these challenges, providing insights, strategies, and solutions to maximize your chances of success. Discover how their expertise can make a significant difference in overcoming obstacles.

Streamlining the Application Process: Filing an application for a marriage green card involves meticulous attention to detail and adherence to strict guidelines. A marriage green card attorney in Long Island will streamline the application process, ensuring that all the necessary forms are completed accurately and submitted on time. Explore how their knowledge of immigration laws and regulations can facilitate a smooth and efficient application process.

Building a Future Together: Obtaining a marriage green card is not just about legal documentation—it's about building a future together with your loved one. A marriage green card attorney in Long Island can provide valuable insights beyond the application process, including guidance on adjusting your status, obtaining employment authorization, and pursuing permanent residency. Learn how their support extends beyond the green card to help you achieve your dreams.

Conclusion: Love's path may have its obstacles, but with the assistance of a marriage green card attorney in Long Island, you can navigate through them with confidence. From understanding the process to overcoming challenges, their expertise and personalized assistance will pave the way for a smooth and successful journey towards building a future together. Don't let legal complexities hinder your love story—let a knowledgeable attorney in Long Island be your guide, ensuring that your path is filled with love, joy, and endless possibilities.

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2022 favs meme! Thanks to @take-in-time for tagging me!

I truly don't remember half the things I've done but let's see! I've changed the format because it's me and I ramble.

If you want an excuse to ramble about your fave media, I'm tagging you!

favorite books

I was really into Roopa Farooki's books this year. She's a Pakistani-British writer, and her books are about dysfunctional Pakistani families that are immigrants. I read:

-Everything is True, about her time as a doctor in the first 40 days of Covid

-The Way Things Look to Me, about three siblings whose parents have died, meaning the two older siblings need to support the youngest, and how they do (or don't) do that.

-The Good Children, about four siblings, two men and two women, who grew up with an abusive mum, and how that's impacted their lives as adults

Other shoutouts to:

-Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

-the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

-the Dr Greta Helsing trilogy by Vivian Shaw, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

-Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild (this one was sad)

-The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrafer (loud screaming)

-the Something is Killing the Children Graphic Novels

-Interviews with Monster Girls manga

favorite movies

I never goddamn watch movies even though I should. So here are the ones I've watched that I enjoyed:

-The Bad Guys (the animated one with another wolf man to add to the tumblr's furry roster)

-The Batman (It was so long but yeah I really liked it!)

-Uhhhhhhhh

-Thor Love and Thunder (it was mindless, not as good as Ragnarok, but I had fun)

-Rehearsal for a Murder (I watched this one cos the local community theatre is going to produce it next year and I wanted to see if any parts suited me. Alas not. But it was a good film! Also young Jeff Goldblum lmao)

favorite songs:

-This was the year of Rina Sawayama for me, especially XS, Bad Friend, Hold the Girl, and Frankenstein

-Your Love (Deja Vu) by Glass Animals

-Go Your Own Way and the Chain by Fleetwood Mac (thanks OFMD)

-The Loneliest Time by Carly Rae Jepsen (the song not the album >.>)

-Peach by Broods

-Shake It by Loona

-Music for a Sushi Restaurant by Harry Styles (again the song not the album lmao)

Also shoutout to other Top 40 songs that kept me company on my drives for work because my car was made 2008 and has no USB ports/bluetooth: About Damn Time by Lizzo, Unholy by Sam Smith and Kim Petras, Faith by Georgia Lines, Cuff It by Beyonce, Bad Habit by Steve Lacy, Late Night Talking by Harry Styles and Stay with Me by Calvin Harris

favorite shows:

-Uhhh does dimension 20 count? Well it does now. It's all I've watched.

-Also EXU: Calamity

-Also drawfee. Big year for drawfee.

-The Watcher Boys!

-And I've also gotten back into watching Dodger's streams

-Actual Shows though?? Uhhhh I've watched Spy x Family and Mob Psycho 100 and those are good

-This is a statement I'm going to put out into the world: I WILL watch succession next year, instead of just going into the tag, and watching youtube compilations

I'm adding Favourite Games because this is all I think about:

-DISCO ELYSIUM a game I have never played because I'd just get anxious but love So Much

-Persona 5, a game I have only watched a playthrough of but may One Day Play when it is less than $100 on steam

-Death's Door -it's very cute and difficult but not too hard!

-Coral Island - It's only early access but Boy it's good

-Dead Cells

-The Great Ace Attorney a game I'd like to play but am currently just watching it being streamed by Rythian

-The Case of the Golden Idol - I watched Secret Sleepover Society play it and it's So Good. It's very Obra Dinn like and that's one of my favourite games

favorite memories:

-seeing lots of plays with the acting class! especially the First Prime Time Asian Sitcom which really just drilled a hole into my brain and was like 'hey all the issues around media representation for Asian people you think about so much? lets talk about it)

-hanging out with the Coffee Crew (when I had the spoons which is not often) and laughing til I cry

-i went to the museum for my birthday and brought my family along and it went super well! We thought it would be too much for my sister cos crowds but she loved it!

-I'm a fully registered speech therapist now! I love my work, and my colleagues, in this brutal capitalist hellscape I've got one of the best jobs and workplaces ever.

-Every time I go to see a child and their face lights up because they're so happy to see me. Best part of the job!!

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Let an Attorney Help You

If you’re new to the country or a visitor in the US and you want to remain here, you’ll need to apply for an EB1 form, which is commonly known as a green card.  This form is one of the most common immigration forms and it allows you to remain in the country for at least ten years with the potential of renewal every decade.  If you’re unsure how to process this application, you’ll want to hire an attorney to assist you so that you can have your application approved.

Can You Obtain an EB1 on Your Own?

The simple answer is “yes” you can obtain an EB1 green card on your own without the assistance of an immigration attorney.  When you do this, you need to be confident that you’ve filled out all the forms correctly and that you don’t need additional paperwork or face additional challenges.  Even if you’re certain you know what you’re doing and have filled out the forms correctly, you might want to obtain the advice of an attorney to at least review your paperwork.  If you receive a refusal notice, you’ll have to pay another fee to apply for the green card, making this an expensive process.

Do You have a Challenging Case?

If you’re applying for an EB1 visa, which is a green card, and you know you might be turned down due to legal issues, you’re going to want to have an immigration attorney take a look at your case.  With their help and guidance you can file the required forms and communicate the reasons for the issues you’ve had in the past.  There’s a good chance that you’ll be able to be approved more easily if you have a lawyer assist you.

What are the Costs?

While there’s no way to tell exactly what an EB1 filing will cost when you consult with an immigration attorney, what it could cost if you don’t is additional application fees. The fees to apply for a green card amount to several hundred dollars and you don’t want to have to pay them more than once.  Because of this, it makes sense to have an immigration attorney review your case and make certain you’ve filled all your forms out correctly and that you have the best chance for approval during the process of working toward receiving your green card.

The Right Team is Near You

Are you searching for the right lawyer to help you with the EB1 filing process?  You need to see an immigration attorney at the offices of Shankar & Associates, P. C.  This team of experts has the experience and information you need to make sure you can have the ability to be approved more easily.  Let this team of immigrants helping immigrants take a look at your case and guide you through the difficult process of being approved for a green card. It’s worth the added cost and time to be approved the first time.

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PERM labor certification NYC | Eb1 Immigration Attorney Long Island

The Program Electronic Review Management (PERM) system is used to conduct labor certifications, which are the first stage in obtaining an EB-2 or EB-3 visa immigrant visa for certain foreign people.

Overview

All labor certification applications must now be filed through PERM, which was initially implemented on March 28, 2005. For new labor certification filings, forms such as ETA Form 750 and Reduction in Recruitment (RIR) are no longer available. EB-2 (with the exception of National Interest Waivers) and EB-3 are the employment-based preference categories that need PERM labor certifications.

Purpose

The Department of Labor (DOL) must issue a labor certification before a U.S. firm can file an immigration petition for a foreign worker in most EB-2 and EB-3 visa positions. To this aim, the employer files ETA Form 9089 to the Department of Labor, which validates the employee’s eligibility that

1) There are not enough American workers who are able, qualified, and willing to accept the job offer at the prevailing salary for that occupation in the area where the business expects the foreign worker to work; and

2) The pay and working conditions of similarly employed U.S. workers will not be harmed as a result of the foreign worker’s employment.

Process

In short, before filing a labor certification application, the petitioning business must execute a series of recruitment operations to test the labor market. If an employer discovers that there are insufficient numbers of able, qualified, and willing applicants, whether U.S. citizens or permanent residents, during the recruitment process, the firm can file a PERM labor certification application.

Employers can submit their labor certification application to the DOL for adjudication either electronically or by mail, according to PERM requirements. While employers are not required to present supporting documents when filing, they must have completed all recruitment activities and gathered all evidence before filing. Website printouts, newspaper rip sheets, and job orders are examples of documents that businesses might use to demonstrate recruitment operations. (Petitioning employers should keep this documentation for five years in the event of a future audit or review.)

Originally, the Department of Labor expected a non-audited PERM labor certification application to be judged in 45 to 60 days. The processing period for PERM applications varies. If the Department of Labor chooses a case for auditing, the petitioning employer has 30 days to produce all needed documentation. If an audit request is ignored, the case may be deemed abandoned, and the DOL may require the unresponsive employer to go through supervised recruitment for any future labor certification applications.

After the Department of Labor accepts a labor certification, the employer must file an immigrant petition with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) before the labor certification’s 180-day validity period ends.

For National Interest Waiver (NIW) petitions filed under the EB-2 category, labor certification is not required, and it is also not required for EB-1, EB-4, or EB-5 petitions.

Overall, PERM labor certification is a time-consuming and complicated process. We urge that you seek the advice of an expert immigration lawyer.

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Woodside Filipino Community Responds to DACA, Looks to Future

According to the Migration Policy Institute, in 2013 the Philippines was the fourth largest country of origin of an immigrant group in the United States after Mexico, India, and China, accounting for 18.5 million immigrants in the United States, or 4.5 percent of the total 41.3 million immigrants in the country. One in four Filipino migrants are undocumented.

There are currently 22,000 DACA eligible Filipino residents in the United States, but only 6,000 have applied. A few factors account for the discrepancy of 16,000, including fear of giving out information to the government, an inability to pay application fees, and an inability to prove eligibility because of lacking documentation.

“A lot of people don’t have the same records one would have if they were documented, for example pay stubs, credit card statements, regular doctor visits, etc.” Amir Rasoulpour, a Long Island City based legal partner of the immigration law firm Torregoza Legal, said in an email. “Some people entered and went right to work rather than school so there are no records showing when they came.”

Queens is home to about 47000 Filipinos, or more than half of New York City’s Filipino population, documented and undocumented. It’s unclear how many of DACA-eligible residents there are, and how many have already applied.

Rasoulpour, who used to work for the Woodside nonprofit, Aid Center of Queens County, was invited to the town hall to provide the legal context for DACA, answer technical questions and clarify who can and who cannot apply for a renewal.

“If your work authorization is expiring between September 5th and March 5th of next year, you can renew. Those are the only people,” Rasoulpour said. “If your work authorization expires, say, March 6th you can’t renew.”

The event, officially titled the Filipino Town Hall and Community Response Meeting on DACA, was hosted by three Filipino action groups: The National Alliance of Filipino Concerns, Anakbayan New York, and Migrante New York.

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The Golden Boy, John Garfield By Susan King

Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire was Marlon Brando’s signature role. It made the then 23-year-old Brando an overnight Broadway sensation in 1947, and he electrified movie audiences and earned his first Oscar nomination for the classic 1951 film version. But he wasn’t the first choice to play Blanche’s earthy brother-in-law. Producer Irene Selznick had her eyes on Hollywood star John Garfield, who frequently took time out from movies to return to the Great White Way for limited runs.

In fact, writer John Lahr reported in 2014 that on July 19, 1947, Selznick drew up a contract for the 34-year-old actor, “one of the few sexy Hollywood stars with a proletarian pedigree. The Selznick office leaked the big news to the press. The contract was never signed. On August 18 the deal with Garfield collapsed.”

One of the reasons bandied about was that Garfield turned down the role because the contract would have kept him away from Hollywood for too long. Though Brando is considered the performer who ushered in the more naturalistic style of acting (known as “the Method”) both on stage and in film, truth be told it was Garfield who was the catalyst for Brando, as well as Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, James Dean and Steve McQueen.

Just look at Garfield’s first feature film, FOUR DAUGHTERS (’38). Directed by Michael Curtiz, the cast includes Lane sisters Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla, in addition to Gale Page as the four musically inclined daughters of a widower music professor (Claude Rains). Enter handsome boy-next-door Jeffrey Lynn as a budding composer named Felix who endears himself with all the daughters, especially peppy Ann (Priscilla Lane).

The household is put in an uproar with the arrival of Garfield’s Mickey Borden, the original rebel anti-hero. Unkempt, slovenly and possessing a massive chip on his shoulder, Mickey is an orchestrator who has arrived at the house to work with Felix. You can’t keep your eyes off him especially in this early monologue where he explains his anger to Ann:

“They’ve been at me now nearly a quarter of a century. No let-up. First, they said, ‘Let him do without parents. He’ll get along.’ Then they decided, ‘He doesn’t need education. That’s for sissies.’ Then right at the beginning, they tossed a coin, ‘Heads he’s poor, tail’s he’s rich.’ So, they tossed a coin…with two heads. Then for the finale, they got together on talent. ‘Sure, they said, let him have talent. Not enough to let him do anything on this own, anything good or great Just enough to let him help people. It’s all he deserves.’”

There was a sexuality and eroticism to Garfield’s performance that was 180 degrees different from Lynn’s durable and safe leading man. He was so natural; it was almost like someone found Garfield walking down the street in the Bronx and asked him to star in the movie. “He was the prototypical Depression rebellion youth,” actor Norman Lloyd told me about Garfield for the L.A. Times in 2003. They first met in 1937 and worked together on Garfield’s final film HE RAN ALL THE WAY (’51).

“He combined all of these elements of darkness and rebelliousness with the charm and the poignancy and he became the prototypical actor of that time. He never changed as a person. He remained just as a wonderful guy. He was a man of great charm, a good fellow, very likable.”

There was a lot of Mickey in Garfield, who was born Jacob Julius Garfinkle in 1913 on the Lower East Side of New York to poor Russian immigrants. Julie, as he was called, had a rough and tumble upbringing. His mother died when he was seven. “He hated his father,” his daughter Julie Garfield noted in 2003. “His father was awful to him. He was torn away from his brother.” In fact, Garfield once said that if he hadn’t become an actor, he would have been “Public Enemy No. 1.”

Unlike Mickey, the fates and destiny were looking after him. First, it was educator Angelo Patri, who became a surrogate dad to Julie at P.S. 45, a high school for troubled students. With Patri’s encouragement, he joined the debate team where he discovered he had a gift for acting. That was further nurtured when he received a scholarship to Maria Ouspenskaya’s acting school. He was all of 18 when he made his Broadway debut in 1932 in Lost Boy and became the youngest member of the progressive and influential Group Theatre, appearing in Clifford Odets’ early masterpieces Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Sing. 

Odets wrote the play Golden Boy for Garfield in 1937, but director Harold Clurman decided to give the lead role of boxer Joe Bonaparte to Luther Adler and cast Garfield in a minor role. His unhappiness with Clurman’s decision pushed Garfield into signing a contract with Warner Bros. And FOUR DAUGHTERS made him an overnight sensation. He earned a Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, but lost to Walter Brennan who picked up his second Academy Award in that category for Kentucky (‘38).

The following year, Garfield, Rains, the Lane siblings, Page and Curtiz reunited for DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS, in which the actors played different characters from the prior film. It was probably the best film Garfield made that year. But Warner Brothers put him in a lot of movies that were unworthy of his talent including BLACKWELL’S ISLAND (’39) where he was typecast as a gangster. He made some good movies in 1941, including THE SEA WOLF, which also starred Edward G. Robinson and Ida Lupino and reunited him with Curtiz, and also Anatole Litvak’s atmospheric noir OUT OF THE FOG also with Lupino.

Because he suffered heart damage from scarlet fever, Garfield couldn’t serve during World War II. But he entertained the troops on USO tours and opened the famous Hollywood Canteen with Bette Davis so the troops could be entertained and be served by some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Both Davis and Garfield appeared as themselves in the hit 1944 film HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN. Garfield also fought the global conflict on screen, giving one of his strongest and grittiest performances in PRIDE OF THE MARINES (’45), a poignant drama based on the life Al Schmid who was blinded by a grenade during the Battle of Guadalcanal. He returns home to his wife (Eleanor Powell) a bitter, doubting man who has a difficult time trying to deal with his new life.

The year 1946 saw the release of two of Garfield’s most enjoyable films HUMORESQUE and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. HUMORESQUE was his last film under his Warner Bros. contract. It’s a delicious melodramatic wallow with Garfield playing a poor New York kid who becomes a famous concert violinist. Joan Crawford, coming off her Oscar-winning triumph in Mildred Pierce (’45), plays a wealthy patroness who sets her sights on Garfield. Garfield went to MGM for POSTMAN, which was based on James M. Cain’s best-selling thriller. Garfield turns up the heat with Lana Turner as illicit lovers who brutally murder her husband only to turn on each other when they are caught.

The actor teamed up with Bob Roberts to form an independent production company, Enterprise Productions, and their first feature was the boxing classic BODY AND SOUL (’47), for which he earned his second Oscar nomination as Charley Davis, a boxer who loses his way when he gets involved with an unscrupulous promoter. Not only does he have a strong chemistry with leading lady Lilli Palmer, but also African American actor Canada Lee as Ben, a boxer with brain damage. And Garfield gets to utter one of his greatest lines in BODY AND SOUL: “What are you going to do? Kill me? Everybody dies.”

Though his next Enterprise production wasn’t a hit, FORCE OF EVIL (’48), co-written and directed by Abraham Polonsky, is a terrific film noir with a hard-hitting Garfield as a corrupt attorney trying to save his numbers-racket brother (Thomas Gomez) from his gangster boss. Garfield returned to Warner Bros. and Curtiz in 1950 for THE BREAKING POINT, which was based on Hemingway’s 1937 novel, To Have and Have Not. It’s an outstanding film noir with a superb performance from Garfield as well as from Black actor Juano Hernandez who plays his partner on the fishing boat.

THE BREAKING POINT was Garfield’s penultimate film and was not a hit because The Blacklist was engulfing Hollywood and the actor, despite the fact he wasn’t a Communist. His film career was over in 1951 when he refused to cooperate with HUAC at his hearing. Before his death of a heart attack in 1952 at the age of 39, Garfield did appear in a short-lived Broadway revival of Golden Boy, which also starred Lee J. Cobb, a young Jack Klugman and Joseph Wiseman.

Though she was only 6 ½ when he died, Julie Garfield recalls seeing her father on stage in Golden Boy where he introduced her during the curtain call. “When he smiled at you it was like being in the sun,” she noted. “He was funny and sometimes he would like to dance and kick up his legs. I remember him adoring me. He used to take me to the merry-go-round a lot in New York. He was so strong, so handsome and he loved to kid me. He would give me this mischievous smile. I wish I remembered more about him…”