U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) have recently formed a partnership to share information of applicants. Foreign nationals who are applying for adjustment of status can now apply for work authorization and a social…
The Department of State (DOS) has adopted new rules to make it more difficult to get visas to the United States. The DOS is giving immigration consular officials new grounds to deny entry to the United States or to remove…
Unlawful presence in the United States is perhaps the most widely known among the grounds of inadmissibility or denial of visa application. There are no regulations interpreting the concept of unlawful presence. All we have are policy statements from the…
On January 4, 2017, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has changed how it posts processing times. Rather that listing weeks or ginning on January 4, 2017, months, it now provides specific dates. USCIS provides its customers…
USCIS announced on May 3, 2017, that it has completed data entry of all fiscal year 2018 H-1B cap-subject petitions selected in our computer-generated random process. USCIS will now begin returning all H-1B cap-subject petitions that were not selected. Due…
Under our immigraiton laws, when the petitioner dies, an approved I-130 is automatically cancelled. In the 90’s the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a regulation ameliorating the harsh consequence of death of the petitioner by allowing the…
A U.S. citizen or green card holder who is married to a Filipino residing in the Philippines should think one hundred and one times before filing a divorce if the U.S. citizen or green card holder would like to have…