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In a significant new development for certain Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated its website without notice on June 10, 2025 regarding the status of individuals who received Temporary Protected Status under Venezuela’s 2023 redesignation. The USCIS update confirms that Venezuela’s 2023 TPS redesignation […]
On May 27, 2025, a diplomatic cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered U.S. embassies and consular posts to cease scheduling new student visa interviews for international students. This latest development comes as the State Department weighs expanding social media screening for student and exchange visitor applicants applying […]
Allegations of fraud and abuse accompanied the recently published U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) statistics from the Fiscal Year 2024 H-1B Cap Lottery Registration System. The system is used to allocate the annual H-1B visa quota, known as the “cap,” due to perennial excess demand or “oversubscription.” As […]
On Monday, March 27, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency had completed the random numeric selection process (lottery) for allocating H-1B numbers among the properly submitted registrations under both the H-1B Regular Cap and H-1B U.S. Master’s Cap. USCIS has also now completed the process […]