During its next term starting October 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Trump Administration had the authority to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Court announced that it will consolidate review of three…
The Department of State posted the visa bulletin for July today. See https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2019/visa-bulletin-for-july-2019.html for the visa bulletin for July 2019. USCIS advised that it will accept adjustment of status petitions for employment-based adjustment of status petitions for July based upon…
Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan today announced that Kenneth T. (Ken) Cuccinelli will serve as the new acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), effective June 10, 2019. Cuccinelli previously served as Virginia’s attorney general…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to reassign some green card and naturalization cases from local field offices with large backlogs to those with fewer cases. According to the agency, the change is intended to decrease the disparity in case…
Late Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act. H.R. 6 would provide a path to permanent residence and U.S. citizenship for certain foreign nationals who entered the United States before the age of…
The State Department is now requiring foreign nationals to disclose five years of social media and contact history when applying for a nonimmigrant or immigrant visa. New questions about social media use, prior email addresses and prior phone numbers were…
USCIS will close its international offices, starting with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and Manila in the Philippines. All offices, including the main district offices for the separate regions, are scheduled to close by March 10, 2020. According to BuzzFeed, in September 2019,…
Starting June 24, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will raise individual application fees on F and M students and most J exchange visitors, as well as the application fee for schools seeking initial certification in the Student and…
On May 28, 2019, the Attorney General (AG) certified to himself two cases, Matter of Thomas and Matter of Thompson. 27 I&N Dec. 556 (A.G. 2019). The AG has asked the parties and interested amici to "address whether, and under what circumstances, judicial alteration of…
President Trump today announced that the White House is drafting a high-level plan to reform the U.S. immigration system, featuring reduced family-based migration, restrictions on asylum, more border security measures and replacement of the employment-based green card system with a…