A temporary spending measure was passed by the U.S. Congress to fund the U.S. government – including immigration operations – through December 3, 2021 while Congress continues to debate the FY 2022 federal budget. The bill will now go to…
Nationals of Croatia will be soon be eligible to apply for visa-free business or tourist visitor travel to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security announced today in coordination with the State Department. Starting no later than December 1, 2021, Croatia will…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is publishing a proposed regulation to establish the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program through the administrative process of notice and comment rulemaking. The proposed rule will be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register; an advance copy is…
In its ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, USCIS is further extending its 60-day deadline extension policy for responses to various agency actions to January 15, 2022. The accommodation will continue to be available to stakeholders responding to or filing the following: Requests for…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will continue to implement the ban on “non-essential” travel across U.S. land borders and ferry travel with Canada and Mexico through October 21, 2021, according to a set of notifications to be published in the Federal Register. The restrictions were…
The White House announced today that, starting in early November 2021, it will rescind the existing regional COVID-19 travel bans and instead implement a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for foreign national international air travel. With the rescission of the bans affecting foreign nationals…
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White granted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s motion for summary judgment in the Chamber’s lawsuit challenging a regulation that would replace the current H-1B cap lottery system with a wage level prioritization system. The new…
According to the State Department’s October Visa Bulletin, final action cutoff dates for issuance of an immigrant visa will be as follows: EB-1: All countries, including China and India, will remain current.EB-2: China will remain at July 1, 2018, and India will…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will continue to preserve Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for nationals of El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan given that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has not yet issued a directive…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is extending until December 31, 2021 its relaxed enforcement of the normal requirement to physically inspect the original documents presented by new hires during the I-9 process and thus allow eligible employers to continue to implement remote I-9…