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
H. Raymond Fasano writes: "Attached please find a decision from the EDNY that I won yesterday. The district court Judge, LeShann DeArcy Hall held that INA Sec. 204(c) has an impermissible retroactive effect if it is applied to a marriage fraud that occurred prior to the enactment of the 1986 Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments to 204(c). In 1985 the beneficiary of an I-130 petition withdrew his application when the couple was confronted with the fraud. Back in 1985 the fraud bar did not apply since he did not have a benefit granted to him as a result of the fraud. In 2011 he married another citizen and the application was denied citing the marriage fraud. We appealed the BIA’s affirmance of the denial of the I-130 and prevailed."
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