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...
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...
John Manley, June 27, 2024 "As in past campaign seasons, we will hear politicians say that, when it comes to immigration, a person needs to “get in line” and wait his or her turn. But what if that line stretches to infinity? Consider this...
Goodluck v. Biden "In these four consolidated appeals, district courts held that the Department of State had unlawfully suspended, deprioritized, and delayed the processing of applications for diversity visas for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, at the height...
Stuart Anderson, Forbes, June 19, 2024 " “The parole in place provisions for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens will get more press attention, but the other administrative action may be just as important,” said Cornell Law School professor...
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....
Miriam Jordan, New York Times, June 19, 2024 "President Biden on Tuesday announced an initiative that could be life-changing for hundreds of thousands of undocumented young adults, known as Dreamers, whose ability to live and work in the United States has...
AFGHAN AND IRAQI ALLIES, UNDER SERIOUS THREAT BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITHFUL SERVICE TO THE UNITED STATES, ON THEIR OWN AND ON BEHALF OF OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED v. BLINKEN "Congress has authorized the Secretary of State to give special-immigrant visas to certain...
Rock guitarist extraordinaire Chris Buck details, to the penny , what it costs to get visas for the band ( Cardinal Black ) to tour in the USA .
Cyrus D. Mehta and Jessica Paszko, May 7, 2024 Can a Renaissance Person Ever Qualify for a US Visa Classification? "Surely, USCIS would be hard-pressed to find that any one of the men who contributed to the founding of our great nation did not possess...
State Department, Apr. 15, 2024 "The Department of State has suspended visa services in Haiti The information below outlines options Haitian nationals seeking U.S. visas may consider. Immigrant Visas Immigrant visas are for foreign nationals who intend...
Daniel Bates, Daily Mail, March 8, 2024 "A judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to hand over sensitive material about Prince Harry’s immigration papers for him to review while he decides whether to make them public. Judge Carl Nichols...
Jeffrey Mervis, Science, Mar. 1, 2024 "More than a dozen Chinese graduate students holding valid U.S. visas are the latest pawns amid the rising political tensions between the two countries. In the past 3 months, students in Ph.D. science programs at Yale...
W. Scott Railton, Think Immigration, Feb. 29, 2024 "Magic mushrooms are having a moment, maybe more, but it bears saying, they are very bad news for U.S. immigration purposes. ... Magic mushrooms and psychedelics are moving to the mainstream in some places...
State Department, Feb. 21, 2024 "The State Department is today implementing a new visa restriction policy under Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Section 212(a)(3)(C) that targets owners, executives, and senior officials of charter flight, ground, and...