July 2021 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The July 2021 Visa Bulletin was released earlier this afternoon and we continue to see significant forward movement in most categories, but in particular EB2 and EB3 India/China. EB1 India[…]
Category: Family-Based Immigration
USCIS Announces Lockbox Filing Flexibilities
The unprecedented lockbox delays from last autumn/winter are well known to both immigration practitioners and clients alike. Our office filed several cases during this time period where USCIS took over[…]
USCIS Updates Policies to Improve Immigration Services
Slowly but surely, the new Biden-Harris administration continues to unwind the immeasurable damage done by the previous administration and de-construct the invisible wall, brick-by-brick. USCIS announced yesterday several policy updates[…]
June 2021 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The June 2021 Visa Bulletin was released earlier this morning and we are happy to report that we once again saw steady to significant forward movement in most categories, particularly[…]
May 2021 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The May 2021 Visa Bulletin was released this afternoon. Once again we saw steady movement in most categories, and EB1 India and EB1 China continue to remain current. USCIS has[…]
Re-Designation Allows Additional Eligible Syrians to Apply
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,[…]
April 2021 Visa Bulletin Commentary
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[…]
March 2021 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The March 2021 Visa Bulletin was released late yesterday afternoon. Most categories saw steady movement, with employment-based categories (particularly EB2 India and EB3 India) seeing fairly significant movement compared to[…]
USCIS Reverts to the 2008 Version of the Naturalization Civics Test
Good news to start this Monday morning as USCIS announced that it is reverting back to its 2008 version of the naturalization civics test, departing from its December 2020 implementation[…]
Biden Immigration Reform Bill Text Out!
Readers and listeners, the much awaited Biden immigration reform bill is out!! Titled US Citizenship Act 2021, the bill was released this morning. I will be going through it like[…]