Copied from USCIS: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services stopped applying the Public Charge Final Rule to all pending applications and petitions on March 9, 2021. We have posted new versions of affected forms. You must file[…]
Copied from USCIS: WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security today published a Federal Register notice (FRN) extending and re-designating Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, effective March 31,[…]
The April 2021 Visa Bulletin was released late afternoon today, the first time in many, many moons that it has come out before the 20th of the month (hopefully another[…]
50 or so days into the new Biden administration and we are beginning to see some real policy changes and a return to normalcy, a welcome occurrence after the undue[…]
Today, we finally heard the news we were awaiting- the public charge rule is truly dead. That means, the absolutely awful, burdensome and stressful Form I-944 is no longer necessary. […]
Further to our previous post, the DHS has published remarks on the status of the public charge rule. See below. DHS Statement on Litigation Related to the Public Charge Ground[…]
Breaking: The US Supreme Court today dismissed a lawsuit in which the troubling ‘public charge’ rule was to be litigated. In other words, this action will now allow the public[…]
I am so thrilled to be one of the newest columnists for Above the Law!! It is a highly respected law publication in the United States. After my introductory piece,[…]
It is with great delight and relief that we can report that the visa ban affecting many many people are the world is now lifted. Proclamation 10014 banned immigrants visas[…]
USCIS announced that, starting today, it is expanding premium processing services to E-3 petitioners. This is welcome news as previously premium processing was not available for this category, and lengthy[…]