USCIS Data Continues to Confirm High Rates of RFEs and Denials Data released during the month of July confirms the trend of increased rates of RFE and denials in nonimmigrant visa cases. This trend remains consistent with the Trump Administration’s Buy American, Hire American Executive Order. US Supreme...
Read More...Travel for Adjustment of Status (“Green Card”) and Naturalization Interviews This month USCIS announced that it would begin to transfer some of its Adjustment of Status and Naturalization cases to other agency field offices. The change is intended to help alleviate long backlogs which have accumulated at certain...
Read More...H-1B Updates With the H-1B cap season upon us, the demand for FY 2020 cap number is expected to be high, consistent with previous years. USCIS had not yet announced whether Premium Processing services will be available for FY 2020 cap cases, however, USCIS announced this month that...
Read More...Trump Administration’s “Buy American, Hire American” Policies Have Led to Increased USCIS Denials A report released this month by the Cato Institute shows a steady increase in USCIS denial rates for employment-based immigration cases since Trump’s Buy American, Hire American executive order took effect. The study shows that...
Read More...Trump Plans Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship for Certain U.S. Born Babies The President, seeking to limit immigration to the U.S., declared his intention to challenge a long-standing constitutional standard which derives U.S. citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. While some fellow Republicans have voiced their...
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