USCIS has issued a policy memorandum (PDF, 115 KB) (PM) providing guidance to USCIS officers on when to consider waiving the interview requirement for Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence. This PM goes into effect on December 10, 2018 and applies to all Form I-751 petitions received on or after December 10....
A number of years ago, our office was chosen as the North American regional representative office of the Geneva-based Investment Migration Council. Subsequently, I was selected to be on the Governing Board of that organization. I did not know at that time that investment to acquire citize...
The EB-5 Industry was stunned when in June 2017, the OMB announced that the backlog for Chinese investors had reached 10 years, effectively stymieing the market. Anxious to find investors for EB-5 projects, regional center operators and developers started pursuing potential EB-5 candidates in new terrains. India quickly became a fav...
In an action challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of preliminary injunctive relief stopping termination of the program....
The US government has announced plans to change the H1-B visa programme to give preference to workers with advanced American degrees, a move which could potentially have the effect of reducing visas for those educated elsewhere....
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require petitioners seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions to first electronically register with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during a designated registration period. Under the proposed rule, U...
As detailed in our podcasts as well as articles and blogs written by Karuna Chandani-Simbeck and Ron Klasko, with a 10+ year visa backlog for China EB-5 and the resulting slow-down of EB-5 investors from China, Regional Centers and Developers have considered India the new EB-5 frontier over the past few years. Although this was in...
As regular readers of this blog may remember, on January 10, 2018, Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement (ICE) delivered Notice of Inspections (NOIs) at 98 7-Eleven stores in 17 states, including California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas....
People Tech Group, a Redmond, Washington information technology firm that provides technical contract workers to other companies, has been fined $355,000 for violating labor rules pertaining to H-1B high-tech visas. The U.S. Department of Labor investigated People Tech Group and found that it paid entry-...
USCIS began requesting that domestic applicants filing Form N-565, Application for Replacement Naturalization/Citizenship Document, go to an Application Support Center (ASC) appointment to submit biometric information (including photos, signature, and index fingerprint)...
