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
"By providing that the nation's standards of justice also apply to cases decided before March 31, 2010, a favorable decision in Chaidez will give prosecutors the option, if they desire, to revisit plea agreements that failed to achieve justice the first time around. We need not fear that courts will be flooded with illegitimate claims of ineffective assistance of attorneys for their immigrant clients. Prosecutors and the courts have many tools by which we can dispose of meritless cases. While there are cases in which a prosecutor may believe deportation is appropriate, providing a remedy for those whose pleas were unknowingly made does not undermine those cases. Prosecutors' obligation to do justice does not end once we obtain a conviction; it is not a burden on us to be able to do justice when the system has failed defendants in the past." - Robert Johnson, Nov. 26, 2012.