August 7, 2020 Dear Valued Clients: On July 31, 2020, the United States Citizenship and Services (USCIS) announced that they entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Labor (DOL) to provide access and share information about immigrant and nonimmigrant petition records and data within the Office of Foreign Labor Certification’s labor …
CIENT ALERT: USCIS AND DOL TEAM UP IN H-1B AND E-3 ENFORCEMENT Read More
July 15, 2020 Dear Valued Clients: On July 6, 2020, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), which operates under Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced its plans to prohibit nonimmigrant F-1 and M-1 students attending schools operating entirely online from remaining in the United States and to halt U.S. Visas issued to students enrolled …
May 21, 2020 Dear Valued Clients: The United States-Canadian Border closure to non-essential travel, first issued on March 21, 2020, has been extended thirty days, to June 21, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In an attempt to avoid cutting off trade, the travel ban allows for “Essential Travel” for work and transport of goods. “Essential …
May 11, 2020 Dear Valued Clients, The United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has posted the long-awaited Form I-526 data for Q1 of Fiscal Year 2020. As such, USCIS only adjudicated 455 cases (383 approvals and 72 denials) between October to December 2019. Kindly see below the published adjudication statistics for Form I-526, Immigrant Petition …
CLIENT ALERT: Potential Use of a Writ of Mandamus for Form I-526, I-829 or I-924 Read More
