Speaker Paul Ryan has dismissed an effort by a group of House Republicans to go around the normal legislative process and force floor votes on a pack of immigration proposals.

“We never want to turn the floor over to the minority. What I don’t want to do is have a process that just ends up...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ramping up the zero-tolerance policies along the U.S. - Mexico border. The DHS is creating a new program to refer all unauthorized border crossers to the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecution.

On May 8, 2018, in remarks before Arizona state...

 

Os vistos H-1B são concedidos por um período de três anos. Com frequência, os detentores desse visto acabam desejando continuar nos Estados Unidos trabalhando para o empregador que patrocinou o seu visto. Eles têm a opção de renová-lo por um outro período de três anos. 

O processo de renovação, que...

Tens of thousands of Hondurans who have lived in the United States since 1999 must prepare to leave, government officials announced Friday.

More than 50,000 Hondurans who have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. after a massive hurricane ravaged Honduras couple of decades ago will have 20 months to leave the country....

Os vistos de trabalho H-1B permitem que cidadãos estrangeiros venham para os Estados Unidos para trabalhar em uma área especializada. A indústria de tecnologia é uma das que mais busca o visto H-1B. Os trabalhadores estrangeiros representam 57% dos profissionais do segmento chamado STEM (ciência, tecnologia, engenharia e matemática na sigla em inglês) no...

On April 24, 2018, U.S. district court judge John Bates issued an order vacating the decision to rescind DACA, requiring DHS to accept and process both new and renewal DACA applications. The court stayed its order of vacatur for 90 days. It was the third time a federal court has ruled against...

On April 26, 2018, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen announced her decision to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Nepal with a delayed effective date of 12 months to allow for an orderly transition before the designation terminates on June 24, 2019.

The decision to terminate TPS for Nepal was...

On April 27, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency will begin phasing in use of the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Signature Confirmation Restricted Delivery service to mail Green Cards and other secure documents beginning April 30, 2018.

The first phase will affect documents that need to be re-mailed because they...

Fraudes, Violações Técnicas e/ou Deturpações que Podem Desencadear a Negação da Concessão de Vistos H-1B ou um Processamento Administrativo em um Posto Consular

Após a aprovação do visto H-1B pelo Serviço de Cidadania e Imigração dos Estados Unidos (USCIS), cidadãos estrangeiros que residem fora dos EUA precisam se dirigir a um consulado/embaixada americana para...