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
Hats way off to Amanda Waterhouse for this June 23, 2022 victory: "We agree with the respondent that the Texas Penal Code § 22.04(a)(3) is not divisible to [sic] between offenses committed by "act" and those committed by "omission." ... Finding a statute that criminalizes a mere "omission" to constitute a "crime of violence" for immigration purposes would be inconsistent with both Johnson and Stokeling. Accordingly, we find that the respondent's conviction for injury to a child in violation of Texas Penal Code § 22.04(a)(3), does not require "physical force'' as defined in 18 U.S.C. § l6(a), and interpreted in Johnson and Stokeling. Thus, the respondent has not been convicted of a crime of violence aggravated felony and is not barred from establishing her eligibility for cancellation of removal. In view of the above, the respondent's appeal will be sustained, and the record will be remanded to allow the respondent an oppo1tunity to apply for cancellation of removal or any other form of relief for which she may be eligible."