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Below is our top 10 list of changes that the current administration has put into place, without legislation or regulations, that drastically change the immigration landscape for employers, immigrants, and their families: 10. USCIS increases site visi… Read More

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of the H-1B program and determined that USCIS employer site visits were being conducted in a sparse and inefficient manner. The purpose of these visits is to determine if the foreign national i… Read More

The following is an update and roundup of the current status of TPS for some 10 countries. As of August 2017, an estimated 325,000 TPS beneficiaries live in the United States. More than 90 percent of individuals with TPS are nationals of El Salvador… Read More

The Supreme Court granted the application for a stay of the District Court’s preliminary injunction of October 17, 2017, pending disposition of the government’s appeal in the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and disposition of the… Read More

For over 10 years, USCIS has taken the approach that, when adjudicating extension petitions involving the same employer, the same beneficiary, and the same underlying facts, its adjudicators would defer to prior approval determinations. USCIS has now… Read More

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Nicaragua will be terminated on January 5, 2019. DHS has not made a determination on TPS for Honduras; therefore Hondurans’ TPS designation has been aut… Read More

The Trump Administration’s third attempt to ban from the United States foreign nationals from certain countries was halted on October 17, 2017 – a day before it was to take effect. Two federal judges prevented the ban from being implemented n… Read More

On October 1, USCIS began phasing in in-person interviews for all employment-based I-485 adjustment of status cases when the underlying petition is a Form I-140 (EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3) and when the case was filed after March 6, 2017. During several pu… Read More