This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/26/2024 "Eligible citizens, nationals, and passport holders from designated Visa Waiver Program countries may apply for admission to the United States at U.S. ports of entry as nonimmigrant...
DHS, Sept. 24, 2024 "Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, in consultation with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, designated Qatar into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The collaboration and information sharing at the core of the...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Sept. 9, 2024 "At the naturalization interview the noncitizen applicant could face a rude shock if the examiner reveals that they made a misrepresentation in a long forgotten application for an immigration benefit filed in the distant past...
The New D3 Waiver Process: A Tool to Help Over One Million Dreamers By Dan Berger, Stephen Yale-Loehr, Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, Camiel Becker, Krsna Avila, and Megan Kludt "...This article explains how the enhanced D3 program works and recommends that it...
Rosa v. Garland "[W]e vacate the BIA's decision as to Rosa's application for adjustment of status and remand to the BIA to consider these questions of "corroboration" under Arreguin, the answers to which will elucidate whether denying Rosa...
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...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy change to establish clearer guidelines to streamline the process...
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...
Presidents’ Alliance, TheDream.US, Cornell Law School, June 2024 "With Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA)’s future under threat in the courts and continuing stalemate in Congress, many Dreamers with and without DACA face high barriers...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, June 25, 2024 "On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced two new immigration initiatives aimed at keeping families together. The first is a “parole in place” program which will provide a pathway for...
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...
Rangel-Fuentes v. Garland "Cristina Rangel-Fuentes petitions for review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), arguing that under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1)(D), the age of a qualifying child for the purposes of the...
On Nov. 17, 2023 the AAO reversed an EB-2 National Interest Waiver denial by the Texas Service Center, saying: "The Petitioner has met the requisite three prongs set forth in the Dhanasar analytical framework. We conclude that she has established she is eligible...
In September 2023 Andrew L. Wizner and Brian Schmitt filed this lawsuit in Connecticut . In October 2023 Mr. Schmitt filed this lawsuit in Maryland . UPDATE : On Dec. 21, 2023 Brian Schmitt wrote: "I have decisive action on both of the J-2 litigations. A...