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
USCIS, Feb. 10, 2022
"...Through this publication, USCIS will begin to address some of the VAWA self-petition-related concerns that were raised in feedback received in stakeholder engagements. Further, this publication builds the framework for VAWA self-petitions guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual, facilitating future policy updates and clarifications. Specifically, this guidance changes the interpretation of the requirement for shared residence. USCIS no longer requires self-petitioners to currently reside or to have resided in the past with the abuser during the qualifying spousal or parent-child relationship. Instead, USCIS has updated its interpretation of the statute to require self-petitioners to demonstrate that they currently reside or have resided with the abuser at any time in the past when filing the self-petition. The other two changes implement the decisions in Da Silva v. Attorney General and Arguijo v. United States nationwide. ..."