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Cyrus D. Mehta & Patrick Matutina, June 5, 2019 "Current regulations generally preclude beneficiaries from participating in employment-based immigrant visa proceedings, including post-adjudication motions and appeals. The employment-based immigrant...

Cyrus Mehta, Nov. 27, 2017 - "The law generally recognizes that petitioners control their visa petitions. See 8 CFR 103.2(a)(3). A beneficiary cannot force a petitioner to pursue or maintain a visa petition. Therefore, USCIS communicates only with...

Cyrus D. Mehta, Aug. 22, 2016 - "[A] worker who was sponsored by the original employer in the EB-3 can potentially re-boot into EB-2 through a new employer, and recapture the priority date applicable to the original I-140 petition. While the EB-2...

Cyrus D. Mehta, Oct. 30, 2015 - "The approved immigrant visa petition, Form I-140, is truly precious, especially when foreign nationals caught in the employment-based second and third preference backlogs have to wait for several years before they...

Camiel Becker writes: "Attached is a redacted copy of new AAO decision issued on July 8, 2016 . The brief on appeal was primarily written by our associate Emily Wilson, although I was attorney of record and also worked on the appeal. Emily's...

USCIS Office of Public Engagement: Form I-140 Teleconference Invitation U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent this bulletin at 12/22/2011 02:40 PM EST Dear Stakeholder The USCIS Office of Public Engagement invites any interested...

"You may also file using the previus [sic] edition: 03/05/13." - USCIS, Nov. 3, 2015 .

Review Period: January 8, 2015 - January 21, 2015 - I-140 E13 Multinational Executives and Managers REQUEST FOR EVIDENCE

USCIS E-Mail to stakeholders, Feb. 16, 2016 - "Today we published an updated edition of Form I-140 , Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker. The new edition is dated 11/20/15. (Starting 04/16/16, USCIS will only accept the 11/20/15 edition. Until then...

"Sunil Kurapati and his wife Bharathi Mallidi, natives and citizens of India, appeal from the district court’s dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of their complaint challenging the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’...

David Isaacson, Feb. 17, 2016 - " It appears from the proposed rule that in making its determination whether “petition approval was in error”, to quote again from proposed 8 CFR 204.5(e)(2)(iv), and so should no longer confer a priority...

"[T]he AAO seeks amicus briefing on whether the beneficiaries of certain immigrant visa petitions have standing to participate in the administrative adjudication process, including standing to appeal to the AAO (and if so, when, and under what circumstances...

USCIS, Oct. 7, 2015 - "To improve efficiency, USCIS recently rebalanced the workload distribution of certain Form I-140 petitions and employment-based Form I-485 applications between the Texas Service Center and the Nebraska Service Center. Unless...

Eguchi v. Kelly, June 23, 2017 - "Because the court concludes that CIS’s decision was arbitrary or capricious with respect to at least three criteria, it need not analyze whether the decision as to the Membership Criterion was also arbitrary...

Greg Siskind, Dec. 25, 2015 - "While the long-anticipated I-140 EAD rule has not yet been published, the basic outline of the proposed policy changes have emerged. The proposed new I-765 employment authorization form instructions explains what will...