By Janet Howard Recently, lawmakers on Capitol Hill amplified calls for clarity regarding the ability of foreign-born college athletes to capitalize on their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights. In...
USCIS Updates Key CSPA Interpretation to Protect Some Immigrant Youth, But Backlogs Continue to Cause Hardships
Editorial credit: Mehaniq / Shutterstock.com By Adriel Orozco | Sep 5, 2023 On August 24, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new update to its policy manual clarifyi...
Getting a Visa (K-1) For Your Fiancé to Come to the US to Marry You
If you are a U.S. citizen who wants to bring your foreign fiancé(e) to the United States in order to get married, you will need to file a Form I-129F, Petition For Alien Fiancé(e). This is the first...
Biden Administration Revokes Trump’s Health Insurance Visa Ban
By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact President Biden revoked a proclamation issued by former President Trump in 2019 that required nearly all prospective immigrants to demonstrate that they would be co...
Diversity Visa Ban Struck Down by Judge
By Katy Murdza, Immigration Impact A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume issuing diversity visas on September 5. Each year, the State Department uses a lottery system to selec...