Nancy Guan, WUSF, Sept. 19, 2024 "Maria and her family arrived in the U.S. in December of 2021 — the tail end of a year where encounters at the southern border reached record highs. Many of...
Human Rights Watch, Sept. 18, 2024 "Dear President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken, We, the undersigned human rights, humanitarian, civil society , and faith-based organizations...
EOIR, Sept. 16, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) invites interested stakeholders to participate in its live Model Hearing Program (MHP) event on Sept. 30, 2024. The event...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Sept. 16, 2024 "This past week, Trump and J.D. Vance have gone viral for some particularly bizarre rhetoric, alleging that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio...
EOIR "Open & closing dates: 09/13/2024 to 10/04/2024 Salary: $147,649 - $221,900 per year The Justice Access Counsel is responsible for the collections and analysis of stakeholder feedback...
Stuart Anderson, Forbes, Sept. 6, 2023
"The current legal immigration system does not benefit the United States, according to immigration attorney Cyrus Mehta. He proposes advancing the dates in the State Department Visa Bulletin to provide relief for individuals waiting in family and employment-based backlogs, arguing that would help America retain talent it would otherwise lose. Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN) and more than 50 other members of Congress wrote a letter advocating this reform.
Charlie Oppenheim, who oversaw the monthly publication of the Visa Bulletin, disagrees with Mehta on making the Application Filing Dates current but supports him proposing the idea to encourage the State Department to examine all options. (Read an interview here.) Oppenheim (now with WR Immigration) thinks an Application Filing Date should only be listed as “current” if both the current level of qualified demand and the resulting demand from new filings is not expected to be greater than the applicable annual limit available during the next twelve months or so.
Mehta believes the State Department “has never meant that visas were actually available to be issued to applicants as soon as they filed. Rather, it has always been based on a notion of visa availability at some point of time in the future.”
I interviewed Cyrus Mehta, who replied in writing, to understand better how changing the dates in the Visa Bulletin would affect family and employment-based immigrants. ... "