USCIS, Sept. 18, 2024 "Effective Sept. 10, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services automatically extended the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (also known as Green Cards) to 36 months for lawful permanent residents who file Form I-90, Application...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Apr. 23, 2024 "On April 10, 2024, USCIS issued a policy alert clarifying the term “sciences or arts” for Schedule A, Group II occupations. Schedule A occupations are those for which the Department of Labor (DOL...
Prof. Sital Kalantry and Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr, Dec. 22, 2023 "The U.S. immigration system disproportionately impacts people from India who are contributing to the U.S. economy. Each year, the United States issues 140,000 green cards based on employment...
Andrew Kreighbaum, Bloomberg Law, Nov. 8, 2023 "The US is missing out on trillions in economic gains thanks to worsening green card backlogs, according to projections from the Bipartisan Policy Center. Roughly 7.6 million people are stuck in queues for lawful...
Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, Oct. 7, 2023 " 21 Savage ’s four-year immigration saga has come to a happy conclusion as the rapper revealed he is now a “lawful permanent resident” of the U.S. and, with his status no longer in question, he...
Alex Nowrasteh, July 31, 2023 "Today the Cato Institute released The Green Card Game , a free online interactive game where players attempt to go through the legal immigration system. Click on the link to play. After you click on the link, you select an...
Cyrus Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, July 31, 2023 "On July 27, 2023, USCIS announced that it will conduct a second round of selections for the FY 2024 H-1B lottery. An alert posted on the USCIS website stated that “We recently determined that we would need to...
Marta Campabadal Graus, Nuria Diaz Muñoz, PolitiFact, July 12, 2023 "A Facebook post states, "Revolutionary Green Card Program Approved!" and encourages users to follow a link for more information. The publication implies that the process...
David J. Bier, May 17, 2023 "The United States hit a new record of about 8.3 million immigrants at various stages in its family‐sponsored permanent residence process in 2022—an increase of nearly 1 million since 2019. The staggering number of pending cases...
USCIS, Dec. 9, 2022 "Effective Dec. 12, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating the USCIS Policy Manual to allow USCIS to automatically extend the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (commonly called Green Cards) for lawful...
Solutions for the Family Member Who Did Not Get the Employment Based Green Card with the Principal Family Member on September 30, 2022 Cyrus D. Mehta & Jessica Paszko, Oct. 1, 2022 "This past month, we said our goodbyes to summer beach days and cookouts...
Cyrus Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, May 3, 2022 "In light of the recent crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has been at the forefront of discussions around how the United States can assist individuals who are fleeing these two countries...
Deepa Fernandes, Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 28, 2021 "Because of COVID and other Trump administration restrictions in fiscal year 2020, an extra 120,000 green cards were added to the annual allotment for all immigrants applying based on employment...
Cyrus Mehta, Aug. 30, 2021 If the US Does Not Eradicate Vaccine Inequality, the Requirement of COVID Vaccinations for Many Green Card Applicants Will Result in a De Facto Ban "Effective October 1, 2021, with few exceptions, those applying for permanent...
David J. Bier, July 14, 2021 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is poised to waste well over 100,000 employment-based green cards for legal immigrants waiting in the 1.2 million person backlog caused by the low visa caps. Instead of issuing the...