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The Visa Bulletin for December: Final Action Dates and an Employer’s Immigration Plan

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Each month, federal immigration authorities publish a list of dates informing immigrant visa applicants when they should expect to be notified to assemble and submit required documentation to government officials. This...more

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The Visa Bulletin for November: Dates for Filing and an Employer’s Immigration Plan

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Each month, federal immigration authorities publish a list of dates informing immigrant visa applicants when they should expect to be notified to assemble and submit required documentation to government officials. This...more

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The Child Status Protection Act & USCIS Extraordinary Circumstances Policy Updates

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The Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) is a law designed to help certain young people (children of immigrants) keep their eligibility for U.S. immigration benefits, even if they turn 21 years old during the application...more

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The Visa Bulletin for September: Final Action Dates and an Employer’s Immigration Plan

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Each month, federal immigration authorities publish a list of dates informing immigrant visa applicants when they should expect to be notified to assemble and submit required documentation to government officials. This...more

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The Visa Bulletin for August: Final Action Dates and an Employer’s Immigration Plan

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Each month, federal immigration authorities publish a list of dates informing immigrant visa applicants when they should expect to be notified to assemble and submit required documentation to government officials. This...more

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The Visa Bulletin for June: Final Action Dates and an Employer’s Immigration Plan

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Each month, federal immigration authorities publish a list of dates informing immigrant visa applicants when they should expect to be notified to assemble and submit required documentation to government officials. This...more

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The Visa Bulletin for May: Dates for Filing and an Employer’s Immigration Action Plan

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Each month, federal immigration authorities publish a list of dates informing immigrant visa applicants when they should expect to be notified to assemble and submit required documentation to government officials. This...more

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The Visa Bulletin: Unraveling the Mystery - July 2021

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he Visa Bulletin - What is it? The Visa Bulletin is a report published by the U.S. Department of State each month, and is essentially the road map through a foreign national’s green card journey. The primary purpose of...more

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Latest Developments In Immigration: Visa Ban Rescinded, Reinstatement Of Visa Processing Abroad, And Supreme Court Decisions To...

Rescission Of Presidential Proclamation 10014 – Travel Ban For Immigrant Visa Applicants On February 24, President Biden issued a Proclamation revoking the immigrant visa ban that suspended foreign nationals’ entry to...more

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October 2019 Immigration Alert

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USCIS Will Accept Only New Employment-Based and Adjustment of Status Application Forms as of October 15, 2019 - On October 8, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced that will no longer accept...more

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USCIS Public Charge Rule Results in Amended Forms – American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Sues to Delay Implementation

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds rule on August 14, 2019, which dramatically revised the regulations governing the application of the public charge...more

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Recent Updates at USCIS

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1. Process to Abandon Lawful Permanent Residence (Green Card) streamlined - Instead of requiring an in-person appointment at the U.S. consulate or U.S. embassy abroad, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United...more

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Reinvestment of EB-5 Funds in a New Project Can Maintain the "At-Risk" Requirement

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One of the more popular topics among EB-5 project owners and practitioners in recent years is the requirement that investors' funds remain "at risk" as a bona fide "investment." Complications arise regarding maintenance of...more

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President Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Travel Ban, Increased Foreign National Vetting Procedures and Visa Processing...

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President Trump’s Executive Order (“Order”) of January 27, 2017, “Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States,” could have a significant impact on the American immigration system. Employers...more

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DHS Expands the Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver

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Today, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finalized a rule that expands eligibility for provisional waivers of inadmissibility based on the accrual of unlawful presence. The provisional unlawful presence waiver...more

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2017 Diversity Visa Lottery Registration Begins Today

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On October 1, 2015, the US Department of State will begin accepting requests to register for the 2017 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2017), also known as the Green Card Lottery. The Diversity Lottery Program provides a...more

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USCIS To Accept Certain I-485 Applications Before Priority Date Becomes Current

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State (DOS) announced that beginning with the visa bulletin effective October 1, 2015, USCIS will accept for filing I-485 applications to adjust status...more

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EB-5 Program Reauthorization: Proposed Legislative Reforms

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Created by the Immigration Act of 1990, the Immigrant Investor Program, more commonly referred to as the EB-5 program, offers foreign investors an opportunity to secure permanent residency in the United States by making a...more

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What Windsor Means for Same-Sex Married Couples Seeking U.S. Immigration Benefits

On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Windsor that Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) is unconstitutional. This Section of DOMA prohibited the U.S. government from conferring any...more

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Implementation of DOMA Decision

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Statement from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano: “After last week’s decision by the Supreme Court holding that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, President Obama directed...more

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