Immigration News Archive
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USCIS Increases Premium Processing Fee
10/30/19
Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced it will increase the premium processing fee for I-129 and I-140 petitions.
USCIS Changes Fee Waiver Requirements
10/25/19
Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced changes to the eligibility criteria for fee waivers and published a new version of Form I-912, Request for Fee Waiver.
DOL's New FLAG System Replaces iCERT
10/01/19
Today, the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) new Foreign Labor Application Gateway (“FLAG”) system went live, replacing the existing iCERT system.
DHS Proposes H-1B Cap Registration Fee
09/04/19
Today the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) published a Notice of Proposed Rule-making in the Federal Register that would require H-1B cap-subject petitioners to pay an electronic registration fee for each entry into the annual H-1B cap lottery.
USCIS Finishes Returning Unselected H-1B Cap Petitions
08/15/19
Today USCIS announced it has returned all Fiscal Year 2020 H-1B cap petitions that were not selected in the H-1B cap lottery.
DHS Expands Expedited Removal
07/23/19
Today the Department of Homeland Security published a notice in the Federal Register that designates new groups of foreign nationals subject to expedited removal.
DHS and DOJ Adopt Interim Asylum Rule
07/16/19
Today the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice jointly published an Interim Rule that imposes a new requirement on asylum applicants attempting to enter the U.S. at its Southern border.
CIS Ombudsman Releases Annual Report
07/15/19
The Office of the CIS Ombudsman released its Annual Report to Congress.
August Visa Bulletin Released
07/12/19
The Department of State has released the preliminary August 2019 Visa Bulletin, showing retrogressed final action dates in the EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 categories for all geographic regions.
USCIS Changes Information About Concurrently-Filed I-539s
07/02/19
In an unannounced change, USCIS recently updated its premium processing information webpage to specify it no longer adjudicates I-539s at the same time as I-129s even if the I-539 is concurrently-filed with an I-129 submitted under premium processing.