USCIS, July 16, 2024 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to address the new provisions added to the Immigration and Nationality...
DOS, July 15, 2024 " On June 18, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced actions to more efficiently process employment-based nonimmigrant visas for those who have graduated from college...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Jessica Paszko, July 13, 2024 "Portability under Section 204(j) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows certain employment-based green card applicants to change jobs...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 07/12/2024 "The Department of State (the Department) publishes a final rule revising the Code of Federal Regulations to amend...
Visa Bulletin for August 2024
Peter Schey reports: "After two years of negotiations, we have reached a settlement with the U.S. border patrol that for the first time sets detailed standards for the safe detention of immigrant children. We were assisted by pro bono co-counsel with Orrick and the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, and invaluable medical expertise provided by Dr. Nancy E. Wang, Associate Director Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Dr. Marietta Vázquez, Associate Dean, Medical Student Diversity at Yale School of Medicine. The mediation was facilitated by Court-appointed Special Master Andrea Sheridan Ordin and Court-appointed medical monitor Dr. Paul H. Wise, Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University.