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
Vassell II, Oct. 21, 2016 - "The opinion issued by this panel in this case on June 13, 2016 is withdrawn, and this opinion is issued in its place. In our earlier opinion, this Court reversed the holding of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that Winsome Vassell’s conviction under O.C.G.A. § 16-8-2 was a “theft offense” as that term is defined under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G). The panel opinion expressly granted Ms. Vassell’s Petition for Review, but the panel is now advised that the BIA does not deem this Court’s June 13, 2016 opinion sufficient to require it to accept Ms. Vassell’s case on remand. The panel is therefore reissuing this opinion to make clear that in addition to granting Ms. Vassell’s petition, we are REMANDING this case to the BIA for further proceedings consistent with this Court’s ruling in its June 13, 2016 opinion, which is restated in this opinion reissued today."