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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that TPS has been extended for 18 months from its current expiration date of July 5, 2010, through January 5, 2012 for certain citizens of Honduras that are in the United States. If you would like assistance with applying to extend your TPS status, or to …
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that TPS has been extended for 18 months from its current expiration date of July 5, 2010 through January 5, 2012 for certain citizens of Nicaragua that are currently in the United States. If you would like assistance with applying to extend your TPS status, or …
As of April 27, 2010, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has received 16,500 H-1B applications subject to the regular 2011 fiscal year cap and 6,900 H-1B applications subject to the cap’s Master’s exemption. The current annual cap on the H-1B category is 65,000 each fiscal year (up to 6,800 …
As in years past, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2011 cap on April 1, 2010. This is six months before October 1, 2010, the first day of the 2011 government fiscal year. Cases will be considered accepted on the date that USCIS takes …
As a result of the recent natural catastrophes in Chile, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is providing certain benefits to eligible Chilean nationals. Examples of these temporary relief measures include: The grant of an application for change or extension of nonimmigrant status on behalf of a Chilean national who is currently in the United …
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently formalized a rule allowing the US Citizenship application process to be streamlined and expedited for individuals in America’s armed forces. The rule generally amends DHS regulations to conform to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2004, reducing the time requirements for naturalization through military service from …
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will start accepting applications for Temporary Protective Status from Haitian citizens who were in the United States as of January 12, 2010. Citizens of Haiti will most likely have to qualify under the normal TPS regulations. If you would like to know more about Temporary Protective Status or …
In case everyone is not aware, as of June 1, 2009, “The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative” requires U.S. and Canadian citizens, age 16 and older to present a valid, acceptable approved travel document that denotes both identity and citizenship when entering the U.S. by land or sea. Common examples of these documents include a passport, …
This past week, American evangelicals approved a resolution calling for Congress to approve changes in U.S. immigration law. The resolution by the directors of the National Association of Evangelicals passed unanimously. The group represents the heads of 40 evangelical denominations. The president of the association said the system for immigrating to the United States must …
The current processing time for most family-based adjustment of status applications that I am assisting clients with is around 3 months. What this means is that if you reside in Michigan and apply for lawful permanent resident status/green card (e.g., you marry a US citizen), I am seeing that it is only taking around 3 …
