USCIS, Sept. 25, 2024 "Policy Highlights • Clarifies that USCIS calculates the CSPA age of an applicant who established extraordinary circumstances and is excused from the sought to acquire...
NILA, Sept. 25, 2024 "Increasingly, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and other immigration agencies are challenging venue in U.S. district court lawsuits brought by noncitizens...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/26/2024 "Eligible citizens, nationals, and passport holders from designated Visa Waiver Program countries may apply for admission...
Mazariegos-Rodas v. Garland "Beky Izamar Mazariegos-Rodas and Engly Yeraicy Mazariegos-Rodas (collectively, the Petitioners) are two sisters who are natives and citizens of Guatemala. The Petitioners...
Cyrus Mehta, Sept. 23, 2024 "When the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) designated Matter of Z-A- Inc . as an “Adopted Decision” in 2016 it was seen as a breakthrough as it recognized...
Camiel Becker writes: "I am writing to share a recent win I had at the AAO on an H-1B denial. The case involves an in-house Forensic Alcohol Criminalist for a California-based law firm. The California Service Center denied the H-1B petition, inter alia, on a finding that a three-year bachelor’s degree in a relevant field combined with more than ten years of progressive work experience did not equate to a four year US bachelor’s degree. In its denial notice, the CSC repeatedly refused to consider an educational credential evaluation based on a combination of work experience and education. The CSC claimed that pursuant to 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(D)(1) educational credential evaluators can only evaluate foreign degrees and cannot grant college-level credit for training and work experience. On appeal, the petitioner argued that the CSC misconstrued the regulatory framework and must consider an evaluation from a credible credential evaluation company that considers the equivalency of a combination of degree and work experience. The AAO sustained the appeal and approved the petition."