Updated USCIS Guidance on Untimely Filed Extensions of Stay and Change of Status Requests

On January 24, 2024, USCIS issued updated policy guidance to address when USCIS may excuse untimely filed extensions of stay…

January 25, 2024

On April 28, 2023, USCIS announced that for Fiscal Year 2024 (begins October 1, 2023), it received 758,994 eligible H1B…

May 2, 2023

On February 14, 2023 United States (US) Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced an important change regarding when an immigrant…

March 23, 2023

Following up on their commitment to improving efficiency and reducing processing times within the immigration system, USCIS will now start…

March 13, 2023

The H-1B visa program allows U.S. employers to hire foreign national workers for specialty occupation jobs. U.S. Congress has established…

January 30, 2023

USCIS has announced that it will expand the Premium Processing Program. Effective January 30, 2023, Multi-National Executives and Managers, as…

January 18, 2023

Effective January 6, US Citizenship and Immigration Services has extended and implemented a new parole program previously only available for…

January 9, 2023

On November 2, 2020, the district court in Cook County, Illinois, et al v. Wolf et. al., granted summary judgment in…

November 3, 2020

On the evening of September 30, 2020, President Trump signed into law an appropriations bill that includes, among other provisions,…

October 2, 2020

On August 22, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act (H.R. 8089). The legislation…

August 26, 2020

For months now, the Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) has been discussing, and proposing, increases to…

August 11, 2020

On July 29, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) enjoined the Department of…

August 3, 2020