Immigration Updates

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 […]

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 […]

On December 6, 2019, USCIS announced that a new registration process will go into effect for Fiscal Year 2021 H-1B petitions filed under the Fiscal Year 2021 H-1B quota. USCIS plans to publish notice in the Federal Register in the coming weeks. The change was originally proposed in December 2018, […]