U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has launched a new self-service biometric services appointment rescheduling tool on my.uscis.gov. Benefit requestors, and their attorneys and accredited representatives, can now reschedule most biometric services appointments online, without calling the USCIS Contact Center. The biometric services…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the launch of a new mobile application to enable travelers potentially eligible to enter under the Visa Waiver Program to submit ESTA applications from their smartphones, mobile devices or tablets. Users are able to download the free…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua for 18 months. TPS beneficiaries from these four countries must re-register to receive extended benefits. Salvadoran TPS beneficiaries must re-register between…
The Department of Labor has significantly postponed its plan to propose increases in prevailing wages for the H-1B, PERM, and other wage-protected immigration programs; the proposal is now on the agency’s long-term agenda, slated for June 2024. The Department of…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued policy guidance to address eligibility criteria and standards for applications for employment authorization involving compelling circumstances. The guidance covers compelling circumstances for principal applicants and their dependents, provides a non-exhaustive list of situations that…
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an 18-month extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. Details on applying for TPS under the extension will be announced in upcoming Federal Register notices. On Tuesday,…
Starting June 13, USCIS will accept Form I-907 premium processing requests for those who have a pending Form I-539 application to change into F, M, or J status. Starting June 26, the agency will accept premium processing requests from those…
Employers have just a few more weeks to file petitions for foreign nationals selected in the FY 2024 H-1B cap lottery. USCIS must receive all cap petitions by June 30, 2023. It is not yet known whether USCIS will conduct…
Next month, USCIS will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications from foreign nationals with a priority date that is earlier than the Final Action Dates listed in the State Department’s July 2023 Visa Bulletin. Employment-Based Priority Date Cutoffs for July 2023 To…
In July, EB-3 India will retrogress by more than three years to January 1, 2009. EB-3 for all other countries except China will retrogress by four months to February 1, 2022. EB-1, EB-2, and EB-5 cutoff dates for all countries…