La "regla final" sobre cargos públicos (febrero de 2020) tenía por objeto endurecer los criterios para las solicitudes de visado o de tarjeta verde al exigir que un solicitante contara con el apoyo financiero de familiares, amigos u organizaciones y fuera autosuficiente.

En respuesta a la política actualizada, el USCIS introdujo el formulario I-944, Declaración...

Until further notice, IRCC issued a public policy to exempt temporary resident applicants applying from within Canada from having to give their biometrics until further notice. The exemption applies to applicants applying for an extension of work permit, a new work permit, an extension of a study permit, a new study permit, a visitor...

 

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Em 22 de junho de 2020, o presidente Trump emitiu a Proclamação Presidencial 10052, que suspendeu a entrada de estrangeiros nos Estados Unidos com certos vistos de trabalho para não-imigrantes com inicio no dia 24 de junho de 2020, às 00:01 (ET).  Esta Proclamação...

The L-1 visa, more commonly known as the intracompany transfer visa, allows qualifying foreign national professionals who are employed by multinational companies to come to the U.S. to work for the U.S. based operation of the company. The foreign national employee may be coming to work for the company’s U.S. branch, or an...

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Johns Hopkins University filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the Trump administration from stripping international students of their visas and forcing them to leave the U.S. if they are not taking any in-person courses in the fall.

The Baltimore institution filed the suit on Friday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a Washington,...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — On Friday, Rutgers University announced they are joining a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and MIT against ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Rutgers, Harvard and MIT are fighting brand-new guidelines from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the agency announced just this past Monday it would deny visas...

President Trump on Friday said he plans to unveil sometime in the next month an immigration measure that he said would include some protections for DACA — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provides for work permits and other protections for people brought to the U.S. as children by undocumented parents.

Trump had...

On July 8, 2020, The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration resumed invitations to apply to Federal Skilled Worker Program under the Express Entry system, after a gap of nearly four months, which is a great news!

This draw has issued 3,900 Invitation to Apply (“ITA”) for Permanent Residence with the minimum Comprehensive Ranking Score (“CRS”)...

In recognition of diversity of Canadian families, the Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced a change in the interpretation of “parent” under the Citizenship Act. The new change allows non-biological Canadian parent who are their children’s legal parent at birth to pass down Canadian citizenship to their children born abroad in the first...