Release Date: 09/11/202
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is extending the flexibilities it announced on March 30, 2020, to assist applicants, petitioners, and requestors who are responding to certain:
USCIS launches new S.A.V.E initiative: Enabling agencies to ensure more effective compliance with federal laws.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the launch of a new Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) initiative that will enable agencies that administer federal means-tested benefits to ensure more effective compliance with federal laws, regulations, and policies related to financial support of aliens by their sponsors and agency reimbursement.
“The Trump administration...
The Immigration Lawyers at NPZ Law Group – Visaserve – Offer DACA Recipients and DACA Employers Some Important Reminders
On November 14, 2020, Judge Nicholas George Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an opinion regarding the July 28, 2020 memorandum signed by Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf. On December 4, 2020, Judge Garaufis required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take certain actions to...
What Are the Requirements for a Foreign Media Representative Visa?
Pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), representatives of the foreign information media may come to the U.S. as foreign media representatives by obtaining an I nonimmigrant visa. In order to receive such a visa, however, certain eligibility requirements must be met. Let us take a moment to discuss these requirements.
What are...Despite these pledges, there is a view that even if victorious, Biden won’t do much on immigration.
As David Nachman, managing attorney at Nachman Phulwani Zimovcak Law Group, explained, Biden will be hamstrung by an obstructionist Republican Party and encumbered with a long list of priorities.
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D.C. Judge Shields Diversity Visa Winners From Ban
A D.C. federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from applying its visa ban to foreign citizens who won green cards in the Diversity Visa lottery, finding that the U.S. Department of State's refusal to process their visas is likely illegal.
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What Joe Biden’s presidency might mean for H-1B visas and Indian immigration to the US
The Democratic presidential nominee has laid out his policies. But will he implement them? Immigration lawyers aren’t so sure.
Despite these pledges, there is a view that even if victorious, Biden won’t do much on immigration. As David Nachman, managing attorney at Nachman Phulwani Zimovcak Law Group, explained, Biden will be hamstrung by an obstructionist...
BIDEN’S CHALLENGE AHEAD: Immigration policies enacted by the Trump Administration will prove to be an onerous obstacle to undo for a possible Biden Administration.
While Biden has criticized some of these restrictions, he has not said if he would immediately reverse them. He has also not commented on emergency border rules implemented in March that allow U.S. authorities to rapidly expel border crossers, including unaccompanied children and asylum seekers.
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A sign of changes to come? : New US citizens used to be one of the nation’s fastest growing voting blocs
But even before COVID-19, the wait time for citizenship applications had hit new highs under the Trump administration. According to USCIS numbers, the naturalization process averaged 8.8 months in 2020, compared with 5.6 months in 2016 and a peak of 10.3 months in 2018,2 though in some cases, it could take up to three...
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