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
"In an important decision, the New Mexico Supreme Court held that Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), applies retroactively to 1990. Ramirez v. State, No. 33,604, slip op. (N.M. June 19, 2014). The court’s decision departs from the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Chaidez v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1103 (2013), which held that Padilla is not retroactive. Instead, New Mexico joined the high courts of Massachusetts and New Jersey in finding independent state law grounds upon which to hold Padilla retroactive. My colleague at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Christopher N. Lasch represented amici before the state supreme court." - César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, June 24, 2014.