DOS, Oct. 11, 2024 "The Department of State’s Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Consular Affairs (L/CA), in coordination with the Visa Office in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, appreciates the opportunity to discuss issues of concern to the...
State Department, Sept. 9, 2024 "The State Department, working in close collaboration with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is pleased to announce the issuance of all available visas in the Employment-Based Second Preference (EB-2) category for...
State Department, Sept. 5, 2024 "Starting on September 5, 2024, the Department will begin implementing two new visa classifications for noncitizens seeking to transit the United States to join a vessel engaged in foreign trade and undertaking lightering...
State Department, Aug. 27, 2024 - Annual Limit Reached in the EB-1 Category State Department, Aug. 29, 2024 - Annual Limit Reached in the EB-4 Category
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 08/22/2024 "The Department of State (“Department”) is amending its regulations at 22 CFR 40.21(a)(5), and 22 CFR 40.22(c) regarding the effect of a pardon on a visa applicant’s...
DOS, Aug. 16, 2024 - "The State Department, working in close collaboration with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is pleased to announce the issuance of all legally available visas in the Employment-Based Third Preference (EB-3) and Other Workers...
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 153 / Thursday, August 8, 2024 "On September 1, 2017, all U.S. passports were declared invalid for travel to, in, or through the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), unless specially validated for such travel...
State Department, Aug. 2, 2024 "The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has certified a class in the consolidated cases Farangis Emami, et al. v. Alejandro Mayorkas, et al. , No. 18-cv-01587-JD, and Pars Equality Center, et al. v...
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 144 / Friday, July 26, 2024 "Pursuant to Department of State regulations, all parents or legal guardians of a U.S. passport applicant under 16 years old must appear in person to execute the minor’s passport application...
DOS, July 15, 2024 " On June 18, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced actions to more efficiently process employment-based nonimmigrant visas for those who have graduated from college in the United States and have a job offer. As part of this...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 07/12/2024 "The Department of State (the Department) publishes a final rule revising the Code of Federal Regulations to amend requirements for accreditation and approval by the United...
Identical DHS and DOS media notes are here and here . Media coverage here , here , here , here , here and here . The intent is to curtail irregular migration through the Darién Gap . [I have not yet obtained the MOU. If you have it, please send me...
State Department, June 27, 2024 "On June 25, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the district courts’ decisions in Gomez v. Biden , Rai v. Biden , Goodluck v. Biden, and Goh v. Biden , which had ordered the...
DOS v. MUÑOZ (6-3) 50 F. 4th 906, reversed and remanded. BARRETT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and THOMAS, ALITO, and KAVANAUGH, JJ., joined. GORSUCH, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. SOTOMAYOR, J., filed...
State Department, June 18, 2024 " On June 18, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced actions to more efficiently facilitate employment-based nonimmigrant visas for those who have graduated from college in the United States and have a job offer....