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
"On March 15, 2012, Plaintiff, an immigration attorney, requested documents under FOIA from the OFLC regarding OFLC’s Program Electronic Review Management System (“PERM”). ... The 272 relevant withheld documents are better characterized as compiled for audit purposes—the documents list audit criteria, itemize the procedures OFLC staff should take when processing applications with specific audit criteria present, and contain templates of audit notification letters. To construe these documents as “compiled for law enforcement purposes” would improperly broaden the meaning of the term. As such, the Court holds that Exemption 7(E) is inapplicable to the 272 documents at issue in this matter. ... The Court’s in camera review of a portion of the relevant documents reveals that the withheld documents are not predecisional in nature. As such, Exemption 5 is inapplicable to the 272 documents withheld by Defendant as a matter of law. ... the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on the exemption‐based issues." - Gluckman v. DOL, Nov. 26, 2013. [Hats off to David E. Gluckman and Jonathan L. Moore!]