AAO
According to the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association, USCIS is changing the process for making InfoPass Appointments. According to their press release: Once the new pilot program is implemented, in order to schedule an InfoPass appointment at one of the above listed USCIS field offices, stakeholders will first need to
Adjustment of Status
There have been some movements on the immigrant visa front, and some setbacks. Below is an update on where things are and where they may be going. Employment Based Immigration Visas: EB-1: Current across the Board for now, however according to Charlie, India and China may backlog by summer.
Executive Orders
Many of you may know that USCIS has had a policy in place that allowed those filing an application to renew their status (H-1B, L-1, E-1, etc.) to file a ‘bare bones’ application - an application with just new information and none of the initial documentation sent in
Adjustment of Status
The Department of State released the November 2017 visa bulletin. This bulletin includes some modest forward movement in most categories. Family Based Immigrant Visa Numbers USCIS has allowed people to base the filing of the Adjustment of Status applications on the Dates for Filing. However those dates have not changes
Adjustment of Status
Re cently USCIS issued a new rule stating that all employment based green card applications will be subject to interview starting on October 3, 2017. Just this week AILA members and the Ombudsperson for USCIS had a Stakeholder Call to discuss the new rule. Here are the details that came
Adjustment of Status
Many of you may not be aware of the 30/60 day rule. The Department of State in its Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) has a section on willful misrepresentations. Part of this section describes how to determine willful misrepresentations in the case of people who enter the US on a
Executive Orders
On September 24, 2017, the President issued a new Executive Order ("EO") entitled "Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry into the United States by Terrorists or other Public Safety Threats". This new EO builds upon the last order, which was only valid for
Immigration
In the wake of the hurricanes that have brought massive flooding to parts of Texas, Indiana, Florida and many islands in the Caribbean, many foreign nationals in the US planning foreign travel (or those outside the US planning on coming back) have passports and visas that have been water damaged.
Adjustment of Status
Today, USCIS released the October Visa Bulletin. The big changes are the EB1 coming current (as well as EB2 Worldwide) and a big jump forward in the F4 (siblings of a US Citizen) category for Worldwide, China and, to a lesser extent, India. Below is a summary of the developments
Immigration
As part of its review of rules promulgated under the Obama administration near the end of his term, the Trump administration has put on hold the final rule regarding allowing start-up Entrepreneurs to temporarily come to the US and start up a company. The final rule was put on
Adjustment of Status
The June, 2017 Visa Bulletin was released and the biggest change is that both India and China are now backlogged in EB-1 category. Below are all the changes and further information about this new backlog. We are also including updates from Charlie Oppenheim from the Department of State on
H-1B
USCIS announced on Wednesday that it has finished data entry for all cap subject applications it has accepted for the 2018 fiscal year. USCIS will now begin sending back those applications not selected and will be transferring cases from Vermont to California to even the H-1B case load between