Hamed Aleaziz, Tracy Wilkinson, Hannah Levintova, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 17, 2023 "Numerous Russians attempting to escape conscription onto the Ukrainian battlefield have made perilous journeys to the United States, trusting in the Biden administration’s...
David Noriega, David Mora, Gabriela Martínez, VICE, Mar. 28, 2022 "A group of Russian citizens who fled their country after the invasion of Ukraine and spent a week camped out at the U.S.-Mexico border was quietly admitted to the U.S. in a secret deal with...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Mar. 28, 2022 "Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, there has rightly been much discussion of how to assist the Ukraine and its citizens. The United States’ immigration laws can plainly be employed to...
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 36 / Wednesday, February 23, 2022 / Presidential Documents Executive Order 14065 of February 21, 2022 "...Sec. 6. (a) The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of noncitizens determined to...
Executive Order 13685 of December 19, 2014 Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to the Crimea Region of Ukraine By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent this bulletin at 10/16/2012 10:22 AM EDT Dear Stakeholder, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State (State) invite interested parties to participate in a stakeholder...
Russian contract engineers are in the Seattle area at Boeing's behest. Are they 'working,' or are they 'business visitors?' That is the high-dollar, 'B-1 in lieu of H-1B' visa question. To address the question, one must study the...
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport denied entry Friday to 15 Russian engineers from Boeing's Moscow Design Center and sent them back to Russia. The incident caused the company to suspend U.S...
DOS, Jan. 21, 2022 "Due to the severely limited consular operations in Moscow, the U.S. Department of State has designated multiple posts for processing certain nonimmigrant visa applications from persons resident in Russia. Under this designation, Russia...
Matter of X-, Apr. 12, 2021, unpub. "The respondent has credibly established that his conviction was pretexual in nature and on account of his political opinion. ... We do not find serious reasons to believe that the respondent committed a serious non-political...
Skripkov v. Barr "Andrei Skripkov, a citizen of Russia, seeks review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upholding an Immigration Judge’s (IJ’s) denial of his application for asylum and the withholding of removal. Skripkov asserted in...
Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 170 / Tuesday, September 3, 2019 "Under discretionary parole policies, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has granted parole on a case-by-case basis to nationals of the Russian Federation (Russia) to enter Guam and the...
"We grant the petition in this matter because we conclude that Doe met his burden of presenting evidence that the Russian government was unable or unwilling to control the nongovernmental actors who persecuted him because he is a homosexual. We also hold...
Text of the Agreement FAQ: Bilateral Adoption Agreement with Russia "A joint Department of State and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services team traveled to Moscow September 26 – 28 to meet with Russian officials to discuss implementing procedures...
"The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is pleased to announce that the historic U.S.-Russia visa agreement will enter into effect September 9, 2012. The agreement will facilitate travel and establish stronger ties between Russia and the United States, as it will...