Visa Bulletin...
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced yesterday that it has revised form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status. The new version of the form will be required for filings on and after March 11, 2019....
In recent years, the migrant population arriving at the U.S.- Mexico (Southern) border without legal immigration status has shifted from being comprised predominantly of Mexican adult economic migrants to being comprised primarily of Central American adults, family units (adults with at least one child u...
In Proclamation 9822 of November 9, 2018 (Addressing Mass Migration Through the Southern Border of the United States), I found that our immigration and asylum system is in crisis as a consequence of the mass migration of aliens across the border between the United States and Mexico (southern bord...
Effective immediately, USCIS will begin accepting copies of negative consultation letters directly from labor unions relating to a current or future P nonimmigrant visa petition. A consultation letter from a U.S. labor organization is generally required for petitions in the P visa classification, which covers ath...
It is now more than 180 days since implementation of the new unlawful presence policy by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) affecting F-1 students, M-1 students, and J-1 scholars, as well as their dependents. ...
At least 30 students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have returned from the US. They were those who were not detained or served notices by the US authorities in the "pay-to-stay" scam, according to Telugu organisations. ...
Neeraj Sharma, 43, of Piscataway, New Jersey, was arrested for allegedly submitting 11 fraudulent H-1B visa applications as well as fraudulently procuring his own citizenship, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Sharma is charged by complaint with one count of visa fraud and one count of naturalization fraud. ...
The US has accused the students arrested in connection with a fake university visa scam of being "aware they were committing a crime" for visas when they enrolled at the institution while lawyers for those charged accused the government of tricking them. ...
India has issued a demarche to the US asking it to release at the earliest Indian students detained in connection with their enrolment in a fraudulent university and not to deport them against their will. ...
