Immigration

Effective November 11, 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in coordination with the U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced the designation of Poland into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program.  Certain Polish nationals are now eligible to enter the United States under the Visa Waiver Program for permissible tourism […]

The U.S. Department for Homeland Security (DHS) announced an automatic extension of the validity of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) to January 4, 2021 for El Salvadorans with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The announcement also stated, if the Trump Administration is successful in their efforts to terminate the TPS Program for […]

Click here to view November 2019 Visa Bulletin. The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for November 2019, which reflects no changes from October 2019 in the “Dates for Filing” dates but otherwise generally shows modest forward movement in the “Final Action Dates,” or priority dates, across the […]

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 […]