Editorial credit: Walter Cicchetti / Shutterstock.com U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on January 5 issued policy guidance on how we analyze an employer’s ability to pay the proffered wag...
USCIS Reaches Fiscal Year 2024 H-1B Cap
USCIS has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the mast...
USCIS Changes Filing Location for Requests for Premium Processing for Pending Immigrant Petitions for Alien Workers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today a change in the filing location for Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing, for currently pending Form I-140, Immigrant Petit...
USCIS Issues Clarifying Guidance for Individuals Authorized to Work Under Special Student Relief Provisions
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify the validity period of employment authorization for F-1 nonimmigrant students experie...
Congress Proposes the Case Backlog and Transparency Act to Tackle USCIS Backlogs
Washington, D.C., United States – June 14, 2018: Official American government website of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS. (Shutterstock) By Raul Pinto The backlog of pendi...
USCIS is Expediting EADs for Healthcare and Childcare Workers
By Linda Nwoke The Autumn/Fall season brings a lot of noticeable changes – changing colors, shorter days, and lower temperatures. The progressive reduction of the hours of light also affects our bod...
Newly Naturalized Citizens Can Impact Midterm Elections in Key States, New Report Finds
NATIONWIDE – A new report released on July 20 by the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) and SEIU presents the profile of the New American Voters 2022 that could significantly in...
Immigration Agencies Get Hit with Record-High Lawsuits as Delays Worsen
By Leslie Dellon, Immigration Impact Lawsuits asking courts to order government employees to decide long-pending immigration filings have increased sharply in the past year. According to a recent rep...
USCIS Restores Pathway to a Green Card for TPS Holders
Washington, DC – May 11, 2022: TPS activists rally at Union Station to call on the Biden administration to make good on the promise to continue the program along with creating a path to citizenship....
USCIS Celebrates Independence Day 2022 and Continues its Commitment to Naturalization
WASHINGTON— U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will celebrate Independence Day this year by welcoming more than 6,600 new citizens in more than 140 naturalization ceremonies between J...