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
Azumah v. USCIS - Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge Harris wrote the opinion, in which Judge Thacker joined. Judge Richardson wrote a separate opinion concurring in part and concurring in...
IRAC - "In this unpublished decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) held that possession of marijuana with intent to distribute under 35 Pa. Cons. Stat. 780-113(a)(30) is not an aggravated felony because there exists a reasonable probability that the statute would apply to the distribution of a small amount of marijuana for no remuneration. The Board stated that the existence of a separate statute specifically criminalizing the distribution of a small amount of marijuana for no remuneration did not affect its conclusion, because Pennsylvania permits prosecutors to charge defendants under a general penal provision even when their conduct is more closely tied to a specific statute. The decision was issued by Member Roger Pauley and was joined by Member Anne Greer and Member Garry Malphrus." [Hats off to Daniel B. Conklin!]
Matter of Rodriguez-Trinidad, A044-892-640, Feb. 24, 2016, unpub.