USCIS Extends Flexibility for Responding to Certain Agency Requests
USCIS announced that, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is extending flexibilities previously announced on March 30, 2020, to assist…
DHS, USCIS to Modernize, Define the Collection of Biometrics
WASHINGTON— The Department of Homeland Security today announced the imminent publication of a Notice of Proposed Rule making that proposes expanding…
TPS Beneficiaries Retain Same Immigration Status after Traveling Abroad
TPS Beneficiaries Retain Same Immigration Status after Traveling Abroad WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced a Policy Memorandum adopting the Administrative…
I-9 Compliance for Employers
ICE announces another extension to I-9 compliance flexibility WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced another extension…
Immigration and Voting in the Upcoming General Election
Immigration and Voting in the Upcoming General Election August 24, 2020 By Lara Borrego Law Clerk Bolour/ Carl Immigration Group…
Temporary Changes to H-2A (temporary agricultural workers) requirements
As a result of continued disruptions and uncertainty to the U.S. food agriculture sector during the summer and upcoming fall agricultural…
U Visa Applications can be Rejected if questions are left blank
This alert updates and extends a December 2019 alert that purportedly empowers USCIS to reject a Form I-918 or Form I-918,…
P-1 Visa for Individual Athletes
P-1 visa for Individual Athletes of International Recognition: A P-1 visa is a perfect visa for an athlete who has…
Do Individual Athletes needs a Visa to Compete in the U.S.?
Many times our Office receive calls from individual athletes asking if they need a visa to compete in a tournament…
Injunction of the Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds Final Rule
As long as the July 29, 2020, SDNY decision is in effect, USCIS will apply the 1999 public charge guidance that…
Public Charge and Health Care
The fight to block President Trumps’s new requirement that prospective immigrants seeking visas prove they can get or pay for…
Immigration Court Backlogs
TRAC – a Syracuse University independent project that compiles data on immigration court (EOIR) dockets released its most recent report…
Visa Denial based on INA 212(a)(3)(B)
Not every denial of a U.S. visa application for an Iranian citizen is related to Trump’s travel ban. Some applicants…
Immigration Detention
Immigration Jails And Their Treatment Of Migrant Children In Their Custody Details have emerged on the death of one of…
Asylum – Wait Times
Vast Differences in Asylum Wait Times In January 2018 USCIS changed its policy on scheduling interviews for affirmative asylum applications. Their current…
DUI Convictions – Good Moral Character
DUI Convictions – Good Moral Character: The attorney General recently ruled that evidence of two or more convictions for driving…
Farm workforce Modernization Act – H2A visas
The farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, or H.R. 5038, aims to modernize the H2A system for foreign national farmworkers…
J-1 Visa
J-1 Visa Exchange Visitor Program By Angela Filippi (Law Clerk) If you are enrolled in a college or university, or you…
Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker (Form I-140)
Q. What steps can I take to ensure that my Form I-140 petition will not be rejected by USCIS? A….
Public Charge
Public Charge – Changing Rules By: Angela Filippi (Law Clerk) What is Public Charge Rule (In General)? The concept of…
H-2A Visa – New Recruitment Requirements
On September 20, 2019, the Department of Labor issued a final rule in the Federal Register modernizing recruitment requirements for the H-2A…
Bars to Asylum – Seven additional Proposed bars by USCIS and EOIR
USCIS and EOIR joint notice of proposed rulemaking that would add seven additional mandatory bars to eligibility for asylum. The…
Denaturalization
AILA Doc. No. 18072705 | Dated December 20, 2019 According to the USCIS Policy Manual: A person is subject to revocation…
USCIS Begins Accepting Green Card Applications under Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness
USCIS Begins Accepting Green Card Applications under Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it will…
U.S. Asylum Law – Changes in the implementation of U.S. Asylum Law
Changes In The Implementation of U.S. Asylum Law U.S. Asylum law is based on common sense of human decency and…
