In August, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a rule requiring inquiry into whether immigrants in certain nonimmigrant classifications may have received public benefits that would render them inadmissible to the United States on “public charge” grounds. Because existing USCIS forms do not ask applicants about prior receipt […]
Click here to view February 2020 Visa Bulletin. The U.S. Department of State (DOS) issued the Monthly Visa Bulletin for February 2020, which reflects no movement of the Dates for Filing across backlogged preference categories, along with minor forward movement across backlogged Final Action Dates, or priority dates. U.S. Citizenship […]
Join us February 11th in Houston, TX and February 13th in Austin, TX for our Spring Seminar: “Bringing Your Immigration Vision Into 2020 Focus”. The U.S. immigration system saw many changes in 2019, with more to come in 2020, blurring employers’ visions as to what these changes will mean for […]
Click here to view January 2020 Visa Bulletin. The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for January 2020, which shows no movement or modest forward movement across backlogged preference categories, along with technical retrogression to January 2019 under the EB-3 preference category for all countries which were not […]