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Executive Order Establishing Visa and Foreign Visitor Processing Goals
- January 19, 2012
- Category: DHS, Global Entry, Obama
No CommentsPresident Obama today issued an Executive Order to improve visa and foreign visitor processing and travel promotion in order to create jobs and spur economic growth in the United States.
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Advance Notification of the Diversity Immigrant Category Rank Cut-Offs, for March 2012
- January 17, 2012
- Category: Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery Program
For March, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-2012 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows:
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Diversity Immigrant (DV-2012) Processing Times, February 2012
- January 17, 2012
- Category: Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery Program
For February, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-2012 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows:
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Temporary Protected Status Extended for Salvadorans
- January 16, 2012
- Category: General
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for eligible nationals of El Salvador for an additional 18 months, beginning March 10, 2012, and ending Sept. 9, 2013.
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Revised Draft Policy Memorandum Guiding EB-5 Adjudications
- January 13, 2012
- Category: EB-5
USCIS has submitted a revised draft policy memorandum that incorporates shareholder comments regarding EB-5 adjudication. Viewers should note that this is still in draft format and should not rely on the material as it is not finalized.
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FY 2012 H-2B Cap Count as of January 7, 2012
- January 13, 2012
- Category: H-2B Cap
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated its count of H-2B filing for temporary non-agricultural visas (H-2Bs) for employment for the first and second half of FY 2012. As of January 7, 2012, USCIS has receipted filings on behalf of 20,207 beneficiaries toward the 33,000 H-2B cap amount for First Half of FY2012. This count
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CBP Issues Standards for Accepting and Adjudicating I-129 Petitions for L-1 Intracompany Transferees for Canadians under NAFTA
- January 11, 2012
- Category: CBP, Intracompany Transferees, L-1 Visas, NAFTA
CBP has issued standards for the accepting and adjudicating of I-129 Petitions for L-1 Intracompany Transferees for Canadian Citizens under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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USCIS Issues Q&A on Proposed Stateside Processing Of Unlawful Presence Waivers
- January 11, 2012
- Category: Immigration Reform, Waivers
On Jan. 6, 2012, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) posted a notice of intent in the Federal Register outlining its plan to reduce the time that U.S. citizens are separated from their spouses and children under certain circumstances while those family members go through the process of becoming legal immigrants to the United
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Commentary on new Proposed Rule by USCIS to Unify Families Faster
- January 6, 2012
- Category: Parole in Place, Reform, Waivers
USCIS has made an announcement that it seeks to seeks to unify families faster by allowing potential immigrants who are the spouses and children of U.S. citizens to apply for waivers of the unlawful presence bars while in the United States rather than waiting for the decisions of these waivers outside the country. See
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USCIS SEEKS TO UNIFY FAMILIES FASTER
- January 6, 2012
- Category: Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Immigration Reform, Obama, Waivers
The American Immgration Council reports that the administration today has taken an important step toward fixing one of the most notorious problems with our broken immigration system—the 3 and 10 year bars. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it was filing a notice of intent to change a rule which